Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.40

c12.40

It is, I think, improbable that further field-work will bring to light more cities of the first rank, such as the two already known - improbable, though of course not impossible. On the evidence as it stands at present, we are entitled to regard the Harappā kingdom as governed from two capital cities 350 miles apart, but linked by a continuous river thoroughfare. That the Northern and Southern kingdoms, if we like to separate them in this manner, were in fact only subdivisions of a unit is shown by the complete uniformity in material culture from the most northerly to the most southerly site, ignoring any imaginary boundary we may draw between Bahawalpur and Khairpur, for instance. Whatever the system of rule and however enforced, it can hardly be that of two competing city-states, but must represent a common authority having a dual seat of government.