An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c9.s9.62

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Another view holds that large-scale flooding was responsible for the end of the Indus civilization. Raikes, 1965, the author of this theory, envisages an uplift of the land somewhere downstream from Mohenjo-daro, and in support of his hypothesis cites the recent land uplift known as the Allah Bund. The envisaged bund would have withheld the waters of the Indus, resulting in the creation of a lake of immense magnitude, engulfing many of the Indus settlements. The silt deposits at Mohenjo-daro are explained by Raikes by adopting this model. However the theory has been examined in detail by others and doubts have reasonably been cast about its validity (cf. Possehl, 1967).