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Dholavira, the Harappan City
Dholavira, the Harappan City in the Rann of Kutch, Gujarat inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.
India submitted the nomination dossier for Dholavira: A Harappan City to the World Heritage Centre in January 2020.
The site was on the UNESCO’s tentative list since 2014.
Dholavira: a Harappan city, is one of the very few well preserved urban settlements in South Asia dating from the 3rd to mid-2nd millennium BCE.
What’s in the News?
With the inscription of Dholavira, India gets its 40th World Heritage Site.
Now, India boasts of 32 cultural, 7 natural and one mixed property in the list.
India joins a handful of countries including Italy, Spain, Germany, China and France that have 40 or more sites inscribed in the list.
About the Harappan city of Dholavira:
Dholavira is the 6th-largest of more than 1,000 Harappan sites discovered so far.
It demonstrates multifaceted achievements in terms of urban planning, construction techniques, water management, social governance and development, art, manufacturing, trading, and belief system.
With extremely rich artefacts, the well preserved urban settlement of Dholavira depicts a vivid picture of a regional centre with its distinct characteristics that also contributes significantly to the existing knowledge of Harappan Civilization as a whole.
The property comprises two parts: a walled city and a cemetery to the west of the city.
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