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history and culture of india hints for tnpsc INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION | PART - 1

வரலாறு மற்றும்   இந்தியா கலாசாரம் என்ற தலைப்பில்  இன்று நீங்கள் டி‌என்‌பி‌எஸ்‌சி - 4  படிக்க வேண்டிய  தலைப்புகள் பற்றி பார்க்க இருக்கிறோம் .



history  and culture of india  pazhaiya karkaalam thondri 

HISTORY 
  • THE PALAEOLITHIC AGE or  old stone age 
  • The Mesolithic age or middle stone age 
  • The neolithic age or  New stone age 
palaeolithic period  or old stone age (500,000- 10,000 B.C.)
Three phases of paleolithic Age:
  • Early or lower  palawolithic age;
  • Middle  palaeolithic age
  • Upper Palaeolithic age;

Mesolithic period or  Middle stone age (10,000- 6000 B.C)
Neo lithic  age or  New stone age (6000-1000 B.C.)



chlacolithic age  or stone copper  age


INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION
THE MAIN  IMPORTANT OTHERS
  • SIR JOHN MARSHAL 3250 BC- 2750 B.C
  • WHEELER  2500- 1500 BC
  • WALTER  2000- 1500 BC
  • P.P. AGARWAL  2300- 1750 B,.C
  • R.B Dayaram sahani  in 1921
  • RD banerjee  in 1922.

SOME IMPORTANT SITES 
  • HARAPPA 
  • MOHENJODARO
  • LOTHAL 
  • KALIBANGAN 

TOWN PLANNING  &  STRUCTURE
  • grid system 
  • Underground drainage system
  • The Great bath 
  • 6 Granaries
  • lamp post

Agriculture 

cultivation in the river banks of indus ,kalibangan ,  lothal and rangpur
well irrigation in  alladinho , rivers and canals dholavira 


domestication of animals 
trade
towns associated with different industries 
  • daimabad - Bronze industry
  • Lothal -  factory for  stone  tools  and metqallic  finished goods .
  • Balakot  -  pearl finished  goods, bangle , and shell industry 
  • Chanudaro  -  Beads and  bangles factory   


Art and craft

Religious practices 

script -  boustrophedon
Burial practices - Mohenjo daro , Harappa , kalibangan lothal and rupar

decline of the  indus valley civlization 

  • aryan invasion - Wheeler , gordon ,Childe
  • ecological disturbance  -  Fairservice.
  • Change in river course -  dales , M.S. vatsa
  • low rainfall -  stein 
  • Flood - Macay, S.R. rao
  •  Drying of ghaggar -  Raikes and DAles

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