Indus Valley Civilization: A Socio-Historical Study

Abstract

Indus valley civilization or the Harappan civilization was the earliest recognized urban culture of the Indian sub-continent. It is very important that the more striking Indus region was the home to the biggest of the four old urban civilization establishments of Egypt, Mesopotamia, South Asia and China. Harappa was a metropolis in the Indus human advancement that flourished approximately 2600 to 1700 B.C.E. in the western piece of South Asia. The civilization was first recognized in 1921 at Harappa in the Punjab area and after that in 1922 at Mohenjo-daro near the Indus River in the Sindh area.