An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c9.s9.2

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Partition of the country in 1947 took away almost all sites to Pakistan, leaving on the Indian side of the border only two tiny and debatable ones, viz. KOTLA NIHANG KHAN in Dt Rupnagar of Punjab and RANGPUR in Kathiawar. Indian archaeologists, however, took up the challenge and, as of today, more than a hundred sites of the Harappa culture have been identified within the Indian border. Of these about a dozen have been excavated, the more noteworthy being: LOTHAL and SURKOTADA in Gujarat (Rao, 1973; Joshi, 1972); KALIBANGAN in Rajasthan (Lal, 1962 and 1979; Thapar 1975); MITATHAL and BANAWALI in Haryana (Suraj Bhan, 1975; Bist, 1978); Rupnagar (ROPAR) in Punjab (Sharma, 1955-6); and ALAMGIRPUR and Hulas in n.-w. Uttar Pradesh (Sharma, *IAR 1958-9*, pp. 50-55; Dikshit, 1979).