An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c9.s9.4

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With the above-mentioned discoveries it may very well be said that the Indus civilization occupied an area greater than that of the contemporary civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia put together. From Sutkagendor on the Arabian sea-board in Baluchistan in the w. to ALAMGIRPUR in the upper Ganga-Yamuna doab in Uttar Pradesh in the e. it is a distance of nearly 1600 km. Again, from MANDA in Jammu and Kashmir in the n. to BHAGATRAV in Gujarat in the s. it is over 1350 km. In this context however one point ought to be mentioned, viz. that no site of the Indus civilization has yet been found in s. Rajasthan. This may partly be due to lack of intensive exploration of the area but may also be explained by the existence of the Thar desert and the Aravalli hills which might have prevented the movement of the Indus people due e. from upper Sind. In fact it would appear that from nuclear region of Sind and Punjab, the e. ward movement of these people took place along two routes, one along the tributaries of the Indus in the direction of the upper Ganga-Yamuna doab and the other along the sea-belt towards Gujarat.