In this book, he concluded that the religious belief of the Harappan people—as emerging from archaeological evidence—was distinctly different from the Vedic culture of the Indo-Aryans.

THE Harappan Civilisation ... to political ideologies that derive their strength from some form of ethnic or religious identity and like to believe that their nations are pure rather than mixed”.

Archaeological evidence from sites like Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro suggests the presence of religious practices, symbols, and deities resembling those found in later Hindu traditions. The Vedic ...

“The opponents of Aryans were Harappan tribes such as the Asuras, the Rakshas, the Yakshas, and the Pisachas…When the Aryans created a religion out of these events, they deified their leaders ...

In the mid-1850s, a few years after the British annexation of the Punjab, some railway builders stumbled upon an ancient mound of terracotta bricks at Harappa in the valley of the Ravi.

Among the large number of artefacts recovered from Harappa, masks hold importance as cultural and symbolic pieces, giving an insight into the social, religious, and artistic life in one of the ...

The Harappan civilisation, or Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), has always fascinated historians for its urban planning and somewhat organised lifestyle and trade, without any known depiction of ...