The Indus Civilization (Cambridge History of India, Supplementary Volume) c20.44

c20.44

Altogether, however, the archaeological evidence, though of varying value in detail, supports a continuation of the Indus civilization well into the first half of the second millennium B.C. Considered in the light of the civic structure as revealed by the excavations at Harappā and Mohenjo-daro in 1946 and 1950, this revised dating has justified a fresh assessment of the literary tradition regarding the Āryan immigrations into India. It has long been accepted that that tradition is incorporated in the older hymns of the Rigveda, the composition of which is attributed to the second half of the second millennium. It can now be seen that the literary (or, rather, oral) tradition and archaeological inference have apparently more in common with each other than was previously suspected.