Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.11

c12.11

Within the area already described, the uniform products of the Harappā civilization can be traced with the monotonous regularity of a highly-organized community under some strong system of centralized government, controlling production and distribution and no doubt levying a system of tolls and customs throughout the territory under its rule. As we shall see, there is no evidence to imply that the cities of Harappā and Mohenjo-daro were not contemporary: laid out to a common ground-plan, each with its defenced citadel towering above the rest of the town, they seem to have been twin capitals, a northern and a southern, of one united kingdom. One is reminded of historical parallels in North-West India, when Sakas and Kushanas ruled from Taxila or Peshawar in the north, and Muttra in the south, over a single state.