INDUS VALLEY

CIVILIZATION
Presented by:
MONISHA THOMAS
Roll No. 46
SOCIAL SCIENCE
UCTE Muvattupuzha

INDUS VALLEY
CIVILIZATION
It is also known as
Harappan Civilization
Bronze Age Civilizaiton
C 330 BC 1700 BC
Situated in Northwest
Indian subcontinent
including present
Pakistan, Northwest
India and some regions
in Northeast Afganistan

HARAPPAN MAP

IMPORTANT HARAPPAN
CITIES
SITES

DISCOVERED BY

YEAR

HARAPPA

DAYARAM SAHNI

1921

MOHANJODARO

R D BANARJI

1922

SUTHKAJEN DHOR

ORAL STAINE

1927

AMRI

N G MAJUMDHAR

1929

RUPAR

Y D SHARMA

1955

KALIBANGAN

K KHOSH

1953

LODHAL

R C RAVU

1957

BENVALLEY

R S BISHT

1973

PHASES OF HARAPPEN
CIVLIZIATION

Early
Harappa
BC 3500-2600

Matured
Harappa
BC 2600-1800

Later
Harappa
BC 1800towards

TOWN PLANNING
Town planning is the important features of
Harappan Civilizaiton
It was City based
CITY

Citadel

Lower
city

Publi
building

People
houses

Builidng can be devided into three

Dwelling houses
Large buildings
Public paths

DRAINAGE SYSTEM
Draines were covered with
bricks or stones and were
provided with inspection
traps and main holes at
regular intervals for
inspection
Every houses had its own
sock pit
It shows that the sense of
Health and sanitation

GREAT BATH
Situated in Mohanjo daro
It is called the earliest public water tank of the
Ancient world
The great bath measures 11-88 meters x 7.01
meters and has a maximum depth of 2.43 meters
Archaeological evidence indicates that the great
bath is built in the 3rd Millennium BC
Which is located in Citadel mound.

SOCIAL LIFE
FOOD

Wheat and barley

Fruits and vegetables
Fish, milk, meat

DRESS

Dhothi, head dress

Cotton clothes
Wool

ORNAMENTS

Gold, silver, copper and other metals

Men were necklaces, finger rings and anklets
Women were head dress, earrings bangles, girdles,
etc.

HARAPPAN POTTERY
Pottery is bright or dark red and uniformly sturdy and well
baked
It consists chifly of wheel made wares both plain and
painted
The plain pottery is more common
The painted pottery is of red or black
Geometrical patterns, circles, squares, and triangles, and
figures of animals, birds, snakes or fish are frequent moitits
found in Harappan pottery.

HARAPPAN RELIGION
HARAPPAN
RELIGION

Mother goddess
Pasupati mahadeva
Fertility symbols
Animal worship and tree worship
Masial rituals, charms and amul etc.

HARAPPAN SCRIPT
Undeciphered
Written from right to left
The characters are largely pictorial
but inlcudes many abstract things

DECLINE OF HARAPPAN
CIVILIZATION
DECLINE THEORIES

Theory of
environmental
changes this
theory was
igven by than

Theory of
Aryan
inversion
Mer timer
wheeler

Vaseries of
Indus rivers
HD Lambar