The Indus Civilization (Cambridge History of India, Supplementary Volume) c10.6

c10.6

The main features of the plan—the citadel ("Mound AB") on the west and the mounds of the "lower city" ("Mound E") towards the east and south-east—have already been indicated. To the north a slightly hollowed belt containing notably verdant crops marks an old bed of the Ravi, which bifurcated hereabouts. Nowadays the river flows 6 miles farther north, and the adjacent countryside owes to artificial irrigation something of what it once owed to this and other wandering or vanished rivers with their annual floods. Between the citadel and the river-bed, "Mound F" has been found to contain a remarkable and significant piece of town-planning; whilst to the south of the citadel lie the outlying hillock "DJ", the Harappan cemetery "R 37" and the post-Harappan cemetery "H". Away to the south-east, sporadic digging has been carried out in "Area G", but the ragged "Mound E" and its environs are virtually unexplored.