Indus Valley Civilization - Part 2

Lesson 5 of 17 • 5 upvotes • 14:49mins

Abhyudaya Kelkar

The IVC shows remarkable achievements in the field of art & architecture , along with science and technology. The architecture section will be separately discussed in a later lesson. Here we will talk about IVC art and technology. The most striking feature of the IVC is the town-planning. The concept of town planning itself is a cumbersome one even today. But these IVC cities were planned ab-initio. This fact makes the case of the civilization very interesting. The economy of the IVC is a dubious section with very less certainty of facts available. But we will try to reconstruct the economic model with whatever scanty we are having about the IVC agriculture, industry and infrastructure. The IVC disappeared as mysteriously as it appeared. No conclusive evidence of extinction have been found so far. We will talk about all the possibilities. Some additional facts to be remembered about the IVC have also been listed.