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Social Stratification, Governance, Health, and Pathology in Harappan Populations: Ancient India: Volume 5 Indus-Sarasvati Civilization - Society, Reli
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Series: The Heritage of India: Mega Historical, Book 15
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 10 2026
Pages: 786
Weight: 2.27
Height: 1.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Unearth the hidden realities of South Asia's most enigmatic urban epoch in Ancient India: Volume 5: Indus-Sarasvati Civilization - Society, Religion, and Decline. Moving beyond conventional architectural overviews, this volume delivers a rigorous bioarchaeological and socio-political investigation into the daily lives, systemic structures, and eventual unravelling of Harappan populations.
Authored by Kashmir Singh, this scholarly work examines how complex social stratification, elite governance, and ritual frameworks sustained a vast domain of interconnected urban centers. Through meticulous analysis of paleopathology, dental health markers, and skeletal evidence from major burial sites, the book reconstructs the physiological realities, disease burdens, and demographic stressors endured by urban and rural inhabitants alike.
Central to the volume is a deep-dive exploration of the systemic collapse of the Indus-Sarasvati administrative apparatus. By integrating recent geoarchaeological research and paleoenvironmental data, the book traces how multi-century hydroclimatic shifts-most notably the progressive desiccation of the Sarasvati river system and severe monsoonal weakening between 2000 and 1500 BCE-strained regional agriculture and water management systems. Witness how cumulative ecological pressures, demographic migrations, and the breakdown of standardized metrology and long-distance trade networks ultimately overwhelmed institutional resilience, driving the profound de-urbanization of the Harappan world.
Essential reading for historians, archaeologists, students of South Asian antiquity, and researchers of ancient socio-ecological collapse, this volume bridges the gap between material culture and human biology, offering a definitive perspective on the resilience and vulnerability of early complex civilizations.
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