Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c9.s3.t2: East Panjab and Gangetic Valley
Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c9.s3.t2
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East Panjab and Gangetic Valley
c9.s3.t2.1
Excavations at Rupar and Bara in East Panjab, Alamgirpur near Meerut, and several sites in Bikaner suggest that these sites were occupied after some lapse of time by the Painted Grey Ware people after they were abandoned by the Harappans. In Saurashtra the story seems to be different. At Lothal the main Harappan Civilization shows a maturity and degeneration, but no replacement by another culture. At Somnath (Prabhas) a few Harappan features have been noticed in the pottery forms in the lowest deposits, which indicates that the habitation began with a Harappan bias, but this was soon lost when other influence became dominant. This was not the case at Rangpur, where a kind of evolution is witnessed after Period II, suggesting that the Harappan culture was not forcibly replaced or abandoned, but changed imperceptibly into a new one owing, of course, to contact with newer elements. Thus the story of the Harappan Civilization is different in the Panjab and Saurashtra, two of the most outlying provinces of its culture-spread.
c9.s3.t2.2
With this introduction, we shall see in some detail these regional manifestations, though the account cannot be in any sense final, unless definitive reports are published.