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Article >> Sindhi History by Ratna Ramchandani
The excavation of Sind region of India depicted World& most ancient and highly developed cities - Harappa, Chanhu-daro, Lothal, Kot Diji -that told of a civilization which had began around 3000 BC beneath it. Most of us have grown up, knowing of the Indus Valley Civilization as the dawn of history on this sub-continent. This civilization flourished when rest of the world civilization, Mesopotamia, Egypt and China lived in caves. Large tracts of Mohen-jo-daro have still not been excavated as the high water table has made it impossible to dig deeper that 10 meters, so the earlier levels of civilization are still unknown. To preserve what has been excavated so far, as the ancient bricks are being damaged through excessive salinity, 29 bore wells have been sunk around the perimeter of the city to lower the water table, with the assistance of the UNESCO and the Government of Pakistan. Perhaps, when further excavations are carried out, they will throw more light on our fascinating forbears.
The entire subcontinent of Asia was part of the ocean bed. This region is separated from the rest of Asia by mountain ranges - the HinduKush, the Sulaiman, the Karakoram and the Himalayas. This Asian heartland hold back the monsoon clouds and has endless plains drained by the Indus, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers. The longest of three great sub continental rivers is the Indus, now in Pakistan, then Sind. The river has given its name to a country and a religion- ironically, not the country through which it flows or the religion of the people who live by its waters. Five other major rivers flows into the Indus: the Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Sutlej, and Beas.
There were people who live along these waters and the people who live in the desserts deprived of these waters. They speak many languages- Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashto, Baluchi, Brahui, and Gujrati reflecting the diversity of their historical and cultural experience. The people of the Indus live in four provinces of Pakistan. They are the products of unnumbered historical permutations and combinations, the fusion and clashes of fifty-five centuries of civilization. Up to that time the ancient settled areas along the Tigris-Euphrates and the Nile River systems had seemed to merit the title of ‘cradle of civilization’ - now the Indus was making its claim and new theories had to be devised.
ref: http://www.sindhudesh.com/sindhudesh/history_mjd.html
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