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Write brief essay on External trade of the Harappans.

  • UPSC 1991
  • Indus Valley Civilization

Long-distance trade was not a peripheral activity for the Harappans but one of the pillars that made their urban civilization possible in the first place — the standardized weights, seals, and script recovered from Sindh to Gujarat and beyond only make sense against the backdrop of an economy organized to move goods across very long…

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  • The Infrastructure That Made Long-Distance Exchange Possible
  • Overland Routes Toward West and Central Asia
  • The Maritime Corridor Through the Persian Gulf
  • What Moved, and Where From
  • How Significant Was This Trade? A Live Historiographical Debate

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