{"product_id":"the-decline-and-fall-of-the-indus-civilization-1","title":"The Decline and Fall of the Indus Civilization","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Nayanjot Lahiri\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Permanent Black\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2000\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 410\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8178240327\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow in paper back edition, this volume is an informed perspective on the history and content of the thought-provoking, continuing debate on the decline of the Indus civilization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps the fiercest debate on the Indus civilization is over the reasons for the end of India’s earliest cities.  Did they dramatically collapse or was there a steady urban decline? Was the decline a result of inroads by the notorious Aryans or should the idea of these invasions be relegated to mythology? How did rivers, earthquakes and climatic shifts contribute to the disintegration?  Was the end of the civilization marked by a cultural fracture or did its traditions persist?  Read this book to find out…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReviews:\u003cbr\u003eThe volume is more than a compendium of the debates: it is also a guide to the issues at the heart of them…Lahiri brings to bear unique insights due to her longstanding association with the field.\u003cbr\u003e                                                                                —The Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e…Valuable both for scholars and for general readers seeking an informed perspective on the history and content of the though-provoking, continuing debate on the decline of the Indus civilization.\u003cbr\u003e                                                                               —The Indian Express\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e…contains thirty articles classified under different subjects and themes with a covering introduction.  Diverse publications on the decline and fall of the Indus civilization and the change and continuity thereafter ranging from the 1920s to the 1990s are juxtaposed here.\u003cbr\u003e                                                                              —Indian Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003ePART I\u003cbr\u003eINDUS CITIES AND THE ARYANS: HISTORICAL CONQUERORS, MYTHICAL MARAUDERS OF VEDIC HARAPPANS?\u003cbr\u003eFirst Formations: Chanda vs. Chanda\u003cbr\u003eThe Indus Valley in the Vedic Period \u003cbr\u003eThe Aryans: A Study of Indo-European Origins\u003cbr\u003eSurvival of the Prehistoric Civilization of the Indus Valley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Debate Continues\u003cbr\u003eHarappa 1946: The Defences and Cemetery R37\u003cbr\u003eThe Supposed Carnage of the City People by the Aryans\u003cbr\u003eThe Relation of Harappan Culture with the Rgveda\u003cbr\u003eThe Mythical Massacre at Mohenjodaro\u003cbr\u003eIt is Time to Rethink\u003cbr\u003eHave Aryans been identified in the Prehistoric Skeletal Record from South Asia? Biological Anthropology and concepts of Ancients Race\u003cbr\u003eAryan Invasions Over Four Millennia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART II: INVIRONMENT AND COLLAPSE\u003cbr\u003eSilt and Sediment: Evidence and Interpretation\u003cbr\u003eChanhu-daro Excavations\u003cbr\u003eLothal: A Harappan Port Town\u003cbr\u003eBio-geological Evidence Bearing on the Decline of the Indus Valley Civilization\u003cbr\u003eThe Indus Flood Plain and the ‘Indus’ Civilization\u003cbr\u003eThe Consequences of River Changes for the Harappan Settlements in Cholistan\u003cbr\u003eKalibangan: Death from Natural Causes\u003cbr\u003eRemote Sensing of the ‘Lost’ Saraswati River\u003cbr\u003eHigh-resolution Holocene Environmental changes in the Thar Desert, Northwestern \u003cbr\u003eIndia\u003cbr\u003eClimate, a Factor in the Rise and Fall of the Indus Civilization ---- Evidence from Rajasthan and Beyond\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Impact of Harappans on the Environment\u003cbr\u003eThe Origin, Character and Decline of an Early Civilization\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART III: FROM A CITY CIVILIZATION TO A PHASE OF DEVOLUTION\u003cbr\u003eContinuity or Change?\u003cbr\u003eThe Late Harappans\u003cbr\u003eConquerors from the West\u003cbr\u003eExcavation at Rangpur and Other Explorations in Gujarat\u003cbr\u003eSurvival? Revival? Import?\u003cbr\u003eDholavira\u003cbr\u003eLate Harappan Settlements of Western India, with Special Reference to Gujarat\u003cbr\u003eContinuity and Change in the North Kachi Plain (Baluchistan, Pakistan) at the \u003cbr\u003eBeginning of the Second Millennium BC\u003cbr\u003eThe Patterns and Problems in the History of Crops\u003cbr\u003eRice and Ragi at Harappa: Preliminary Results by Plant Opal Analysis\u003cbr\u003eRaw Material Usage and Trade Routes \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eEndpapers: Material equipment of Rangpur and other chalcolithic sites.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Nayanjot Lahiri \/ Permanent Black \/ Paperback","offer_id":68153701106032,"sku":"8731","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/8731.jpg?v=1793912842","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-indus-civilization-1","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}