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Site visit to Dholavira heritage site

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Sanchi Stupa, Asoka’s first build, across the country and a few centuries away

Was that Indus/indigenous/Bhil country then? Is that more why out there or just trade? How influenced by the Greeks was he?

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Road To Heaven

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Rakesh Rajdev Explores Dholavira: Unveiling the Marvels of a Harappan City in Gujarat

Discover the ancient allure of Dholavira, the southern hub of the Harappan Civilization, located on the parched island of Khadir in Gujarat. Inhabited from approximately 3000 to 1500 BCE, this archaeological treasure showcases one of Southeast Asia's remarkably well-preserved urban settlements. Rakesh Rajdev delves into the mysteries of Dholavira, where a fortified city and cemetery reveal the rich history and cultural legacy of this Harappan marvel.

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Explore one of the largest Harappan sites at Dholavira – An Island Between Lake Of Salt (WMR157A). The tour commences on 24th December 2023 from Mumbai.

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Dholavira: Unveiling the Secrets of Gujarat's Ancient Indus Valley Civilization

College days are treasured, especially when memories are shared over a cup of coffee and some pastries in the evening. College travels have a unique place in my heart among the many memories. Our trip to the Gujarati ancient site Dholavira was one of the most unforgettable trips. From the hotel where all the college students were staying, it took us more than two hours to go there by bus. But…

[itwillallbeokay]

Okay not to be that person but this was taught to us in middle school history. Although I can't speak for the state boards, as an ICSE girl I had to learn about this.

Indian PR is so bad that the whole world knows about the Colosseum but Indians themselves don't know about this

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Gujarat Tourism to Launch ‘Tourist Circuit Bus’ Service in Kutch

Gujarat Tourism is set to launch a new ‘Tourist Circuit Bus’ service aimed at enhancing travel convenience for visitors exploring various attractions in Kutch. This initiative comes in response to the increasing influx of tourists, both domestic and international, attending the Kutch Rann Utsav, which has seen a steady rise in attendance over the past four years. The bus service will connect key destinations, including Mata no Madh, Mandvi, Narayan Sarovar, Dhordo, and Dholavira, according to sources from the Gujarat Tourism Department.

In recent years, tourist numbers have surged significantly. Approximately 181,000 visitors attended the Rann Utsav in 2021-22, with that figure climbing to 345,000 in 2022-23 and reaching 742,000 in 2023-24. Officials project that this number could hit 1 million during the 2024-25 season.

A department source noted that there is a growing interest among tourists from other states, as well as NRIs and international visitors. Many express a desire to explore additional sites in Kutch beyond the Rann Utsav 2024 - 2025. However, transportation challenges have hindered their plans. The introduction of the ‘Tourist Circuit Bus’ in collaboration with GSRTC aims to provide a comfortable and accessible option for those wishing to visit these attractions.

Four specific bus routes have been established:

Dhordo – Mata no Madh – Dhordo

Dhordo – Mandvi – Dhordo

Dhordo – Dholavira – Dhordo

Dhordo – Mata no Madh – Narayan Sarovar – Dhordo

The buses will be 2x2-seater Volvo models. Ticket prices are set at Rs 700 per person plus tax for the first two routes and Rs 800 per person plus tax for the latter two routes.

During the Rann Utsav festival, Kutch attracts lakhs of visitor’s eager to experience its unique cultural offerings.

Summing Up

The ‘Tourist Circuit Bus’ service is a significant enhancement to Kutch's tourism infrastructure, making popular destinations more accessible. Gujarat Tourism Department. aims to improve the visitor experience and promote attractions beyond the Rann Utsav. This initiative supports regional economic growth and enriches cultural exchange, allowing travelers to explore Kutch’s rich heritage and stunning landscapes comfortably.

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Road to heaven, Dholavira, Kutch

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The Sarasvati River (IAST: Sárasvatī-nadī́) is a mythologized and deified ancient river first mentioned in the Rigveda[1] and later in Vedic and post-Vedic texts. It played an important role in the Vedic religion, appearing in all but the fourth book of the Rigveda.

As a physical river in the oldest texts of the Rigveda, it is described as a "great and holy river in north-western India,"[2] but in the middle and late Rigvedic books, it is described as a small river ending in "a terminal lake (samudra)."[3][b] As the goddess Sarasvati, the other referent for the term "Sarasvati" which developed into an independent identity in post-Vedic times.[4] The river is also described as a powerful river and mighty flood.[5] The Sarasvati is also considered by Hindus to exist in a metaphysical form, in which it formed a confluence with the sacred rivers Ganges and Yamuna, at the Triveni Sangam.[6]

Rigvedic and later Vedic texts have been used to propose identification with present-day rivers, or ancient riverbeds. The Nadistuti hymn in the Rigveda (10.75) mentions the Sarasvati between the Yamuna in the east and the Sutlej in the west, while RV 7.95.1-2, describes the Sarasvati as flowing to the samudra, a word now usually translated as 'ocean',[c] but which could also mean "lake."[3][8][9][10][d] Later Vedic texts such as the Tandya Brahmana and the Jaiminiya Brahmana, as well as the Mahabharata, mention that the Sarasvati dried up in a desert.

Since the late 19th century, numerous scholars have proposed to identify the Sarasvati with the Ghaggar-Hakra River system, which flows through modern-day northwestern-India and eastern-Pakistan, between the Yamuna and the Sutlej, and ends in the Thar desert. Recent geophysical research shows that the supposed downstream Ghaggar-Hakra paleochannel is actually a paleochannel of the Sutlej, which flowed into the Nara river, a delta channel of the Indus River. Around 10,000-8,000 years ago, this channel was abandoned when the Sutlej diverted its course, leaving the Ghaggar-Hakra as a system of monsoon-fed rivers which did not reach the sea.[11][12][13][14]

The Indus Valley Civilisation prospered when the monsoons that fed the rivers diminished around 5,000 years ago.[11][13][14][e] and ISRO has observed that major Indus Valley civilization sites at Kalibangan (Rajasthan), Banawali and Rakhigarhi (Haryana), Dholavira and Lothal (Gujarat) lay along this course.[15][web 1] When the monsoons that fed the rivers further diminished, the Hakra dried-up some 4,000 years ago, becoming an intermittent river, and the urban Harappan civilisation declined, becoming localized in smaller agricultural communities.[11][f][13][12][14]

Identification of a mighty physical Rigvedic Sarasvati with the Ghaggar-Hakra system is therefore problematic, since the Gagghar-Hakra had dried up well before the time of the composition of the Rigveda.[16][17][f][13][12][14] In the words of Wilke and Moebus, the Sarasvati had been reduced to a "small, sorry trickle in the desert" by the time that the Vedic people migrated into north-west India.[18] Rigvedic references to a physical river also indicate that the Sarasvati "had already lost its main source of water supply and must have ended in a terminal lake (samudra) approximately 3000 years ago,"[3][b] "depicting the present-day situation, with the Sarasvatī having lost most of its water."[19][b][20] Also, Rigvedic descriptions of the Sarasvati do not fit the actual course of the Gagghar-Hakra.[21][22]

The identification with the Ghaggar-Hakra system took on new significance in the early 21st century,[24] with some Hindutva proponents suggesting an earlier dating of the Rigveda; renaming the Indus Valley Civilisation as the "Sarasvati culture", the "Sarasvati Civilization", the "Indus-Sarasvati Civilization" or the "Sindhu-Sarasvati Civilization,"[25][26][27] suggesting that the Indus Valley and Vedic cultures can be equated;[28] and rejecting the Indo-Aryan migrations theory, which postulates an extended period of migrations of Indo-European speaking people into the Indian subcontinent between ca. 1900 BCE and 1400 BCE.[h][i]

hey whats up with this. the rigvedas having a lost river and the indian subcontinent having a lost river is so tempting but the timelines dont match up? i guess rivers just dry up (or change course) a lot so it could be any dried up river?

[meluhha]

largest reservoir in ancient history?

The Dholavira reservoir, located in the ancient city of Dholavira in present-day India, is one of the largest and most impressive examples of ancient water management in the Indus Valley Civilization. The reservoir is estimated to have held around 47 million gallons (177 million liters) of water, making it one of the largest of its kind in the ancient world.

The Dholavira reservoir is a massive structure, measuring approximately 73 meters in length, 29 meters in width, and 10 meters in depth. It was constructed using a sophisticated system of stone masonry and included a series of steps and channels to control the flow of water. The reservoir was used to collect and store rainwater for irrigation and other purposes, and it played a critical role in the economy and daily life of the people living in Dholavira.

The engineering and architectural sophistication of the Dholavira reservoir, along with other examples of water management in the Indus Valley Civilization, attest to the advanced level of civilization achieved by this ancient culture.

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Dholavira Indus valley civilization

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MODERN HISTORY

2ND BLOG _ The Indus Valley Civilization / HISTORICAL EVENT

The Indus Valley Civilization was one of the oldest urban civilizations, dating from 2500 BC to 1500 BC. Although research is still being done on how they handled the issue of water conservation in this interesting part of the world, some advanced water conservation and management practices can be named. In fact, the covered drains that run under the streets of the ruins of Mohenjodaro and Harappa show that their inhabitants were well versed in hygiene. The relevance that exists in relation to the problems of excessive water consumption and the events that occurred within this civilization are interestingly compatible, since at this point in the blog is where my theory is that in ancient times, water consumption was not as excessive as it is today, the reasons for this is not only because there was less population at that time, but because people knew how to distribute and appreciate the resources provided by the earth and they respected it very much. 

The Indus Valley Civilization, which flourished along the banks of the Indus River and other parts of western and northern India about 5,000 years ago, had one of the most sophisticated urban water supply and sanitation systems in the world. Ruins such as Mohenjo-Daro in Sindh and Dholavira in Gujarat had settlements with some of the most sophisticated sanitation systems in the ancient world. They included drainage canals, rainwater harvesting, and street sewers. Sewage was disposed of through underground drains built with precisely laid bricks, and an elaborate water management system with numerous reservoirs was established. In the drainage systems, the drains from the houses were connected to the wider public drains laid along the main streets. The drains had holes at regular intervals for cleaning and inspection. Water from bathrooms on the roofs and upper floors was carried through closed terracotta pipes or open chutes that emptied into the street drains.

Some of the cities of this civilization contributed in a certain way to the conservation of water, since they had their own irrigation systems that allowed the conservation of water in a better way. These cities are the following:

Dholavira: One of the oldest water´s harvesting systems is located about 130 km from Pune along Naneghat in the Western Ghats. A large number of cisterns were carved into the rocks to provide drinking water to the traders who traveled along this ancient trade route. Each fort in the area had its own water harvesting and storage system in the form of rock-cut cisterns, ponds, tanks and wells, which are still in use today. A large number of forts like Raigad had tanks that supplied water.

Western Rajasthan: In ancient times, houses in parts of western Rajasthan were built so that each had a water harvesting system on the roof. Rainwater from these roofs was channeled into underground tanks. This system can still be seen today in all the forts, palaces and houses of the region.

Jodhpur: The old city of Jodhpur has over 200 stepwells, built from around the 6th century as part of an incredibly sophisticated water architecture," he explains. During the little rain the region receives between June and September, water is diverted from canals built on the hilly outskirts of the city to man-made tanks, or talabs.

In addition, one of the main figures in water conservation in this civilization were the engineers and urban planners, who were in charge of drainage systems and so on. They were known to have extensive knowledge on how to conserve water.

The results obtained by this civilization in terms of water conservation are the different implementations they gave to water conservation related to the system they had to maintain cleanliness at the time of using the water resource. The effects they had on the future plans of water conservation are mainly positive, since it is well known that this civilization was an intelligent and organized one, that knew how to control its resources very well and how to improve day by day, but above all, to do it in peace with the environment.

If we want to go deeper into this topic of the Indus civilization and water conservation, let's make a connection with the present time. Actually, water conservation is so important especially in environmental topics that are given in schools or in those talks that are given in any convention, but the thing here is that how could it be possible? Well, the answer is because of the ancient civilization that paved the way for us and made it easier for us to continue to practice water conservation today.

To finish this blog, let's review everything about this historical event, basically the Indus Valley civilization makes it easier for actual people to organize well water and not make such a mistake when we have to preserve it in the right way. If we start to become aware of this whole problem and start to organize our resources in the best possible way like this civilization did, we can probably improve all over the world with this issue of conniving water for a better change in general.