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Indians 1, The Harappans

Posted on April 26, 2024April 26, 2024 by Dharma Documentaries
The first in a series of films recounting Indian civilisations focuses on the Indus Valley Civilisation.

Indians 1, The Harappans

This is the first in a series about the development of Indian civilisation from the earliest times. All the films are worth seeing, but we will be concerned only with the ones that describe the background to the rise of Buddhism, and its eventual demise.

The first of the films concerns the Harappans or the Indus Valley Civilisation, which was a great, but quite unusual, civilisation that arose around the Indus River around 5,000 years ago, but reached its peak between 2,600 and 1,900 BCE, before the arrival of the Aryans.

The unusual features are its very advanced town planning, the enigmatic script, its pottery fragments, egalitarian lifestyle, and lack of military and religious artifacts. The film covers all aspects of the Indus life as far as it can be reconstructed, and discusses who the people were and why the civilisation disappeared.

 

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