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Wheeler’s (1968) time bracket of approximately 2500-1500 B.C. for the Harappan culture was based upon the discovery of Harappan objects in Western Asian archaeological contexts and the Mesopotamian artifacts in Harappan sites. Fairservis (1967) found it hard to accept a millennium-long monotony for the Harappan culture and preferred a range of about 2000-1500 B.C. Allchin and Allchin (1968) proposed that the period around 2150-1750 B.C. would better support the evidence. We, however, have suggested periods of 2300-2000 B.C. for the nuclear regions and 2200-1700 B.C. for the peripheral zone of the Harappan culture (Agrawal and Kusumgar, 1974).