Indian Architecture (Buddhist and Hindu Periods) c8.s1.9

c8.s1.9

Subsequently a third site was explored, that of Chanhudaro, eighty miles south-west of the better known Mohenjodaro, in an effort to find a site that would give more information as to the beginnings of this civilization other than those already investigated. Alternatively there was also the prospect of throwing additional light on the dark period between the disappearance of the Indus culture and the entry into India of the Aryan speaking peoples, presumed to be about 1500 B.C. The results were however not specially informative. The strata at Chanhu-daro seems to go a little further back than the other sites, but it was deserted about 2000 B.C. This part of the country must at the time have had its attractions, but it appears to have had the great disadvantage of persistent floods which eventually forced its population to move. As a whole the inhabitants of these parts seem to have been a migration from the west—the direction of Iran—and when they moved it was probably eastwards, where they would have become assimilated into a yet older population and thus have lost their identity.¹