The decline and fall of Indus civilization / 
edited by Nayanjot Lahiri 
 - Delhi:  Permanent Black,  2000. 
 - x, 410 p.  ill., maps. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliography. 
<br/><br/>I. INDUS CITIES AND THE ARYANS: HISTORICAL CONQUERORS, MYTHICAL MARAUDERS OR VEDIC HARAPPANS?<br/><br/>1. The Indus Valley in the Vedic Period /Ramaprasad Chanda<br/>2. The Aryans: A Study of Indo-European Origins /V. Gordon Childe<br/>3. Survival of the Prehistoric Civilization of the Indus Valley /Ramaprasad Chanda<br/>4. Harappa 1946: The Defences and Cemetery R37 /R.E.M. Wheeler<br/>5. The Supposed Carnage of the City People by the Aryans /P.V. Kane<br/>6. The Relation of Harappan Culture with the Rgveda /A.D. Pusalker<br/>7. The Mythical Massacre at Mohenjodaro /George F. Dales<br/>8. It is Time to Rethink /B.B. Lal<br/>9. Have Aryans been Identified in the Prehistoric Skeletal Record from South Asia? Biological Anthropology and Concepts of Ancient Races /Kenneth A.R. Kennedy<br/>10. Aryan Invasions Over Four Millennia /Edmund Leach<br/><br/>II. ENVIRONMENT AND COLLAPSE<br/><br/>11. Chanhu-daro Excavations /E.J.H. Mackay<br/>12. Lothal: A Harappan Port Town /S.R. Rao<br/>13. Bio-geological Evidence Bearing on the Decline of the Indus Valley Civilization /M.R. Sahni<br/>14. The Indus Flood Plain and the 'Indus' Civilization /H.T. Lambrick<br/>15. The Consequences of River Changes for the Harappan Settlements in Cholistan /M.R. Mughal<br/>16. Kalibangan: Death from Natural Causes /Robert Raikes<br/>17. Remote Sensing of the 'Lost' Saraswati River /Yash Pal, Baldev Sahai, R.K. Sood and D.P. Agrawal<br/>18. High-resolution Holocene Environmental Changes in the Thar Desert, Northwestern India /Y. Enzel, L.L. Ely, S. Mishra, R. Ramesh, R. Amit, B. Lazar, S.N. Rajaguru, V.R. Baker and A. Sandler<br/>19. Climate, a Factor in the Rise and Fall of the Indus Civilization—Evidence from Rajasthan and Beyond /V.N. Misra<br/>20. The Origin, Character and Decline of an Early Civilization /Walter A. Fairservis, Jr.<br/><br/>III. FROM A CITY CIVILIZATION TO A PHASE OF DEVOLUTION<br/><br/>21. The Late Harappans /Dilip K. Chakrabarti<br/>22. Conquerors from the West /Stuart Piggott<br/>23. Excavation at Rangpur and Other Explorations in Gujarat /S.R. Rao<br/>24. Survival? Revival? Import? /A. Ghosh<br/>25. Dholavira /R.S. Bisht<br/>26. Late Harappan Settlements of Western India, with Special Reference to Gujarat /Kuldeep K. Bhan<br/>27. Continuity and Change in the North Kachi Plain (Baluchistan, Pakistan) at the Beginning of the Second Millennium BC /J.F. Jarrige<br/>28. The Patterns and Problems in the History of Crops /Dilip K. Chakrabarti<br/>29. Rice and Ragi at Harappa: Preliminary Results by Plant Opal Analysis /H. Fujiwara, M.R. Mughal, A. Sasaki and T. Matano<br/>30. Raw Material Usage and Trade Routes /Nayanjot Lahiri 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>8178240327 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>History--Indus Civilization<br/>Archaeological History--Indus Civilization
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>930  / LAH/D