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“The Harappans were not an artistic people.” Comment.

  • UPSC 2025
  • Indus Valley Civilization

The claim that the Harappans were not an artistic people rests on a real and defensible observation — the near-total absence, in a civilization contemporary with Egypt and Mesopotamia, of the monumental temples, royal statuary, and narrative wall-art that define those cultures in the popular and even scholarly imagination. But the statement collapses two separate…

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  • The Case for the Claim: What Harappan Art Genuinely Lacks
  • The Case Against: A Refined but Unmonumental Aesthetic
  • Resolving the Contradiction: A Different Social Idiom of Art, Not an Absent One

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