TY - BOOK AU - Lahiri,Nayanjot ,ed. TI - The decline and fall of Indus civilization SN - 8178240327 U1 - 930 PY - 2000/// CY - Delhi PB - Permanent Black KW - History KW - Indus Civilization KW - Archaeological History N1 - Includes bibliography; I. INDUS CITIES AND THE ARYANS: HISTORICAL CONQUERORS, MYTHICAL MARAUDERS OR VEDIC HARAPPANS? 1. The Indus Valley in the Vedic Period /Ramaprasad Chanda 2. The Aryans: A Study of Indo-European Origins /V. Gordon Childe 3. Survival of the Prehistoric Civilization of the Indus Valley /Ramaprasad Chanda 4. Harappa 1946: The Defences and Cemetery R37 /R.E.M. Wheeler 5. The Supposed Carnage of the City People by the Aryans /P.V. Kane 6. The Relation of Harappan Culture with the Rgveda /A.D. Pusalker 7. The Mythical Massacre at Mohenjodaro /George F. Dales 8. It is Time to Rethink /B.B. Lal 9. Have Aryans been Identified in the Prehistoric Skeletal Record from South Asia? Biological Anthropology and Concepts of Ancient Races /Kenneth A.R. Kennedy 10. Aryan Invasions Over Four Millennia /Edmund Leach II. ENVIRONMENT AND COLLAPSE 11. Chanhu-daro Excavations /E.J.H. Mackay 12. Lothal: A Harappan Port Town /S.R. Rao 13. Bio-geological Evidence Bearing on the Decline of the Indus Valley Civilization /M.R. Sahni 14. The Indus Flood Plain and the 'Indus' Civilization /H.T. Lambrick 15. The Consequences of River Changes for the Harappan Settlements in Cholistan /M.R. Mughal 16. Kalibangan: Death from Natural Causes /Robert Raikes 17. Remote Sensing of the 'Lost' Saraswati River /Yash Pal, Baldev Sahai, R.K. Sood and D.P. Agrawal 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 19. Climate, a Factor in the Rise and Fall of the Indus Civilization—Evidence from Rajasthan and Beyond /V.N. Misra 20. The Origin, Character and Decline of an Early Civilization /Walter A. Fairservis, Jr. III. FROM A CITY CIVILIZATION TO A PHASE OF DEVOLUTION 21. The Late Harappans /Dilip K. Chakrabarti 22. Conquerors from the West /Stuart Piggott 23. Excavation at Rangpur and Other Explorations in Gujarat /S.R. Rao 24. Survival? Revival? Import? /A. Ghosh 25. Dholavira /R.S. Bisht 26. Late Harappan Settlements of Western India, with Special Reference to Gujarat /Kuldeep K. Bhan 27. Continuity and Change in the North Kachi Plain (Baluchistan, Pakistan) at the Beginning of the Second Millennium BC /J.F. Jarrige 28. The Patterns and Problems in the History of Crops /Dilip K. Chakrabarti 29. Rice and Ragi at Harappa: Preliminary Results by Plant Opal Analysis /H. Fujiwara, M.R. Mughal, A. Sasaki and T. Matano 30. Raw Material Usage and Trade Routes /Nayanjot Lahiri ER -