Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c8.13

c8.13

Though the Archaeological Survey of India did, within its limited powers, achieve a considerable body of research in Indian antiquities in the first quarter-century of its life, yet it was not until the nineteen-twenties that attention was directed to those prehistoric sites whose existence had been half-suspected by Cunningham on the Harappā evidence. It is to the credit of an Indian officer of the Survey, the late Mr R. D. Banerji, that Harappā’s great twin city, Mohenjo-daro in Sind, was recognized in 1922 and excavations started in that year. Work at Harappā had begun two years earlier under the direction of Daya Ram Sahni, the work at the two sites being co-ordinated by the then Director-General of Archaeology in India, Sir John Marshall.