The continuity of the legacy and heritage of the Harappans
The Harappan civilization is the first urban civilization in India and it was the largest urbanized civilization of the bronze age on the planet, spanning more area than ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia combined. It also hosted among the largest population of the world of its times, with people inhabiting the sophisticated urban cities with facilities like drainage, sewers, bathrooms, reservoirs, planned streets, fortifications, granaries etc. The decline of such a grand urban civilization mostly happened due to various factors such as climate change and drying up of Ghaggar-Hakra-Nara or the Sarasvati river. Majority of the sites of the Harappan civilization which were located near Sarasvati river were abandoned by around 1900 BCE after the river lost its waters. Many argue that after its decline, the Harappan civilization left no cultural legacy which passed on into later historic times. They argue that the Harappan culture simply vanished after the supposed arrival of nomadic-pas...