Pakshal SecretryAIR 8 · CSE 2025 · 217 wordsTheir whole copy
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"Harappan civilisation was most advanced civilisation of the world and its achievement in archaeological domain unmatched across time"
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- John Marshall
Socio-Economic Life of Harappan people
[Map showing: Manda, Sutkagendor, Alamgirpur, Daimabad (IVC Boundary)]
- Agro-Based Economy
- eg evidence of ploughed field in Kalibangan
- Rich community culture and practices
- eg Great Bath of Mohenjodaro
- High civic sense and importance of sanitation
- eg evidence of drainage from House
- Intellectually Advanced and competent
- eg numismatics on seals
- Very high technological progress
- eg use of baked bricks and grid planned cities
[Grid city diagram]
- Segregation based on status (social inequality)
- eg citadel and lower town
- Trading as core economic activity
- eg evidence of 4000+ seals
Religious life of Harappa
- Nature worship
- eg seal of Pepal tree
- Materialistic Religious practices
- eg Fire Altar of Banawali
- fertility cult
- eg mother goddess worship
- Belief in supernatural powers and forces
- eg unicorn seals
- Religious Harmony with other creature
- eg deer, Rhino on proto Shiva seal.
- No Temples and other complex rituals
- probably.
- limited philosophical Development of Religion
- concept of life, death, karma are thought to be absent.
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The Harappan Architecture continues to inspires us till now, from planning of Raipur, Chandigarh to Dokra Art of Tribals.