The decline and fall of the Indus civilization / edited by Nayanjot Lahiri.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lahiri, Nayanjot.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indus civilization.

India--History--To 324 B.C.

India.

History.

India--Antiquities.

Antiquities.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 410 pages : illustrations, tables, graphs, portrait, facsimiles, maps ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Delhi : Permanent Black, 2002.

Contents:

I. Indus Cities and the Aryans: Historical Conquerors, Mythical Marauders or Vedic Harappans?

First Formulations: Chanda vs. Chanda

I.1 The Indus Valley in the Vedic Period / Ramaprasad Chanda 37

I.2 The Aryans: A Study of Indo-European Origins / V. Gordon Childe 43

I.3 Survival of the Prehistoric Civilization of the Indus Valley / Ramaprasad Chanda 47

The Debate Continues

I.4 Harappa 1946: The Defences and Cemetery R37 / R.E.M. Wheeler 50

I.5 The Supposed Carnage of the City People by the Aryans / P.V. Kane 58

I.6 The Relation of Harappan Culture with the Rgveda / A.D. Pusalker 67

I.7 The Mythical Massacre at Mohenjodaro / George F. Dales 72

I.8 It is Time to Rethink / B.B. Lal 83

I.9 Have Aryans been Identified in the Prehistoric Skeletal Record from South Asia? Biological Anthropology and Concepts of Ancient Races / Kenneth A.R. Kennedy 95

I.10 Aryan Invasions Over Four Millennia / Edmund Leach 117

II. Environment and Collapse

Silt and Sediment: Evidence and Interpretation

II.1 Chanhu-daro Excavations / E.J.H. Mackay 141

II.2 Lothal: A Harappan Port Town / S.R. Rao 146

II.3 Bio-geological Evidence Bearing on the Decline of the Indus Valley Civilization / M.R. Sahni 155

II.4 The Indus Flood Plain and the 'Indus' Civilization / H.T. Lambrick 167

II.5 The Consequences of River Changes for the Harappan Settlements in Cholistan / M.R. Mughal 188

II.6 Kalibangan: Death from Natural Causes / Robert Raikes 201

II.7 Remote Sensing of the 'Lost' Saraswati River / Yash Pal, Baldev Sahai, R.K. Sood, D.P. Agrawal 213

II.8 High-resolution Holocene Environmental Changes in the Thar Desert, Northwestern India / Y. Enzel, L.L. Ely, S. Mishra, R. Ramesh, R. Amit, B. Lazar, S.N. Rajaguru, V.R. Baker, A. Sandler 226

II.9 Climate, a Factor in the Rise and Fall of the Indus Civilization

Evidence from Rajasthan and Beyond / V.N. Misra 239

The Impact of Harappans on the Environment

II.10 The Origin, Character and Decline of an Early Civilization / Walter A. Fairservis, Jr. 251

III. From a City Civilization to a Phase of Devolution

Continuity or Change?

III.1 The Late Harappans / Dilip K. Chakrabarti 267

III.2 Conquerors from the West / Stuart Piggott 282

III.3 Excavation at Rangpur and Other Explorations in Gujarat / S.R. Rao 286

III.4 Survival? Revival? Import? / A. Ghosh 297

III.5 Dholavira / R.S. Bisht 305

III.6 Late Harappan Settlements of Western India, with Special Reference to Gujarat / Kuldeep K. Bhan 315

III.7 Continuity and Change in the North Kachi Plain (Baluchistan, Pakistan) at the Beginning of the Second Millennium BC / J.F. Jarrige 344

III.8 The Patterns and Problems in the History of Crops / Dilip K. Chakrabarti 363

III.9 Rice and Ragi at Harappa: Preliminary Results by Plant Opal Analysis / H. Fujiwara, M.R. Mughal, A. Sasaki, T. Matano 369

III.10 Raw Material Usage and Trade Routes / Nayanjot Lahiri 381.

ISBN:

8178240327

9788178240329

OCLC:

612297151