the cultures contemporary with the Harappan civilization and the integration pattern of the late Harappan and local cultures in the subcontinent

MHI-05: HISTORY OF INDIAN ECONOMY

Course Code: MHI-05

Assignment Code: MHI-05/AST/TMA/2016-17

Total Marks: 100

Q2:- Give a brief account of the cultures contemporary with the Harappan civilization. Examine the integration pattern of the late Harappan and local cultures in the subcontinent.

The theme of this question which concerns the ‘agricultural and pastoral communities’ of the Indian subcontinent, in many ways, is both culturally and chronologically complex. So, one may begin by clarifying a number of issues. First, a clarification about the terminology is in order. While there may be some cultures that are more dependent on domesticated animals than on cultivated crops and vice versa, generally speaking, in the time frame that we are considering here – from the beginning of food production in India till the time that cities came to be established, after the Harappan cities of about 2600-1800 BC, in northern and central India around c. 600 BC or so – there are hardly any archaeological examples of societies that can be described as either purely pastoral or as exclusive cultivators.

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