Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c7.127

c7.127

How did the Indus Civilization end? Certainly, at the centre it declined and fell, as has already been hinted, though how universal its decline and how precipitous its fall cannot at present be affirmed in general terms. It is to be anticipated that so far-flung a society decayed differentially and found death or reincarnation in varying forms from region to region. But at Mohenjo-daro at least the picture is clear enough: decline was long-drawn-out and progressive, the final fall catastrophic.