Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.93

c12.93

In general the planning of the city at Mohenjo-daro shows little variation in the type of house, but in one area there is a very interesting range of what can only be called workmen’s quarters, identically planned and apparently with a special well by way of a water-supply. This group of cottages lies in the north-west corner of the HR area of the excavations, and consists of sixteen identically planned structures, each 20 by 12 feet internally and divided into two rooms, one twice the size of the other. These are arranged in two parallel rows, with a narrow lane on one side and a street on the other, and have thin walls suggesting that they were single-storey. The whole lay-out is so strongly suggestive of contemporary coolie-lines that one feels that this is a likely explanation, and this view receives confirmation from the more explicit Harappā evidence.