An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c9.s7.16

v1.c9.s7.16

In 1964 the writer threw out a suggestion that the Sothi/Kalibangan I people were the one and the same as those of the mature Harappa, the latter developing out of the former. The local people, without any outside colonizers or conquerors, woke up to new ideas and worked them out vigorously, perhaps led by a few genius dictators, trade with w. Asia giving them the realization of the need of standardization. And seeing the advantages of the new order, their kindred far and wide would soon align themselves to the new march of progress. Thus would be born a people with a new ethos (Ghosh, 1965, pp. 113-56). One of the main justifications of this suggestion was that at KALIBANGAN the people of Sothi/Kalibangan I lived together with the mature Harappa people of Kalibangan II, perhaps in the same houses, making a distinction between the two impossible. This quick transformation is reflected in the ¹⁴C dates of Kalibangan I and II, which hardly show any gap between the two. All this does not involve the belief that the transformation took place at Kalibangan itself and that therefore the mature Harappa culture originated at Kalibangan.