Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c7.81

c7.81

It is now widely familiar that, since 1921, has been laid bare in and near the Indus valley some part of the most extensive civilization of the pre-classical world. With metropolitan centres, each more than three miles in circumference, at Harappā in the Punjab and Mohenjo-daro in Sind, it stretched from Rūpar at the foot of the Simla hills to Sutkagen-dor near the shores of the Arabian Sea, a distance of 1,000 miles. But that is not all. Exploration during the past ten years has extended the reach of this vast civilization eastwards to Ukhlina, 19 miles west of Meerut in the Jumna basin, and southwards into Kāthiāwād (Rangpur, Lothal, Somnāth, the Hālār [Figure: N Museum Dk area Bath Stupa Excavated areas Citadel Vs area Stupa mound Hr area From Dokri Edges of mound MOHENJO-DARO Suggested original lay-out 0 500 1000 1500 ft]