A History of Agriculture in India v1.c17.4

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THE Mohenjo-daro mound in the Larkana District of Sind, capped by a Buddhist stupa, and the ruined city of Harappa, littered with bricks, were known to the people of Sind and the Punjab for a long time. Excavations at Harappa in the Montgomery District of the Punjab Province were started in 1921 by Daya Ram Sahni, and at Mohenjo-daro in 1923 by R.D. Banerjee. The work at the two sites was co-ordinated by Sir John Marshall. The excavation of the town of Chanhu-daro in Sind was undertaken by Mackay in 1935-36. Detailed excavations at Harappa were later on done by M.S. Vats in 1939-40. The Indus civilization is known as the Harappa civilization after Harappa, the site where it was identified for the first time. Lothal in Gujarat was a contemporary of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro. From Sind and the western Punjab, Harappan Chalcolithic culture spread to the eastern Punjab, western Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and western Madhya Pradesh. From Lothal this culture diffused to a number of sites in Gujarat (Fig. 61).