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Former Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Indus

Bilawal Bhutto says India's decision to suspend IWT an attack on Indus Valley Civilisation

August 12, 2025 5:14 pm

Speaking at a ceremony on the concluding day of the annual three-day festival at the shrine of Sindhi saint Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai on Monday, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari also said Pakistan always advocates peace, but if India forces it into war, the nation will not back down.

Decode Politics: How $1 million prize for Indus Valley script is a chapter in Stalin govt’s ‘Dravidian’ narrative

January 07, 2025 5:07 pm

Archaeological digs supported by DMK govt have sought to establish that settlements in TN are contemporaneous to Indus Valley; Stalin ties Indus Valley symbols “similar” to TN sites to broader symbols of Tamil identity.

UPSC Essentials | Mains answer practice — GS 1 (Week 80)

UPSC Essentials | Mains answer practice — GS 1 : Questions on Indus Valley Civilization and Chhatrapati Shivaji (Week 80)

December 14, 2024 11:53 am

Are you preparing for CSE 2025? Here are questions from GS paper 1 for this week with essential points as the fodder for your answers. Do not miss points to ponder and answer in the comment box below.

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Naming the oldest civilisation of India: Indus, Harappan or Sindhu-Sarasvati?

December 02, 2024 10:29 pm

The debate over the nomenclature, 'Sindhu-Sarasvati civilisation' is representative of the larger ideological battle over Indian archaeology and history that academics have been trying to resolve for a long time.

Knowledge nugget of the day: Lothal

December 06, 2024 10:08 am

The tragic death of the PhD student from IIT-Delhi in Lothal has brought the Harappan site in the limelight. Take a look at how Lothal is an important site which attracts researchers archaeologists.

Govt begins study to find roots of ancient Indian communities

Back on Govt’s agenda: Study to trace roots of ancient Indian communities, this time using modern genomics

October 14, 2024 9:36 am

Titled “Reconstruction of the population history of South Asia using ancient and modern genomics”, the project will study 300 ancient skeletal remains – largely cranial and other bone fragments, including tooth -- collected from different archaeological sites in India and Pakistan.

The mystery of the Indus script: Dravidian, Sanskrit or not a language at all?

February 07, 2024 10:11 am

For more than a century now, over one hundred attempts have been made by scholars from different fields to decode the Indus script, without much success. The many theories include those that link the language to Sanskrit, Dravidian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian among others. There are also those that are skeptical about whether the Indus script is in any one language at all.

The many names in the journey to India: Hindustan, Bharat, Bharata

September 05, 2023 1:53 pm

Scholars say one of the oldest names used in association with the Indian subcontinent was Meluha, which was mentioned in the texts of ancient Mesopotamia in the third millennium BCE, to refer to the Indus Valley Civilisation. A most common name coined for the territory, mainly by the Persians, was Hindustan. Yet in official correspondence, India and Bharat is what stuck on.

Lothal, 'oldest dock in the world', to get heritage complex: Features, significance of the project

October 19, 2022 8:36 pm

Lothal was one of the southernmost sites of the Indus Valley civilization, located in what is now the state of Gujarat. Here is a look at the National Maritime Heritage Complex (NMHC) coming up here.

SOS from Deccan College: Precious pieces of history dumped in gunny-bags

December 29, 2021 7:20 am

Many of the lakhs of samples its archaeologists have dug up since the 1940s are now kept simply in plastic bags and dumped around the premises at the 200-year-old institute.