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Do you think the Harappan civilization had a diversity of subsistence base?

  • UPSC 2014
  • Indus Valley Civilization

The Harappan civilization spread across an area larger than either contemporary Egypt or Mesopotamia, stretching from Sutkagendor on the Makran coast to Alamgirpur in western Uttar Pradesh and from Manda in Jammu to Daimabad in Maharashtra. A civilization occupying such ecologically varied terrain — riverine alluvium, semi-arid steppe, coastal littoral, and upland hill-tract — could…

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