Thanks to Dr. Kalyanaraman for the article.
"The Indus Riddle
Courtesy: India Today
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http://www.indiatodaygroup.com/itoday/26011998/indus.html>
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A flurry of excavations has uncovered startling evidence that
presents a radically picture of the Indus Valley civilisation --
and calls for a complete revision of ancient Indian history.
By Raj Chengappa (13 July 2008)
To school students, history classes on the Indus Valley civilisation
have always been simplistic. Even dull. Most textbooks talk of how
the civilisation appeared like a meteor on ancient India's skyscape,
shone brilliantly for a while and then was snuffed out either by
marauding Aryans or sudden floods.
Archaeologist Ravindra Singh Bisht describes the syllabus as "dead
boring".
[...]
Now if Bisht has his way, you will have to relearn ancient Indian
history. For the past six years, the Archaeological Survey of India
(ASI) team headed by him has been systematically excavating an Indus
site called Dholavira on the salty marshes of the Rann of Kutch in
Gujarat. What they have been uncovering is turning accepted notions
on the Indus on their heads. Says Bisht: "Exploring Dholavira is like
opening a complete book on the Indus. We now have answers to some of
the most enduring riddles about the civilisation."
[...]
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it. -BMS]