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2021-10-16 15:49:34 The walled city consists of a fortified castle with attached fortified Bailey and Ceremonial Ground, and a fortified Middle Town and a Lower Town.

A series of reservoirs are found to the east and south of the Citadel.

The great majority of the burials in the Cemetery are memorial in nature.

Unlike other Harappan antecedent towns normally located near rivers and perennial sources of water, the location of Dholavira in the island of Khadir was strategic to harness different mineral and raw material sources (copper, shell, agate-carnelian, steatite, lead, banded limestone, among others) and to facilitate internal as well as external trade to the Magan (modern Oman peninsula) and Mesopotamian regions.

A classic example of a proto-historic Bronze Age urban settlement pertaining to the Harappan civilisation, Dholavira bears evidence of a multi-cultural and stratified society.

While the earliest evidence can be traced back to 3000 BCE, this city flourished for nearly 1,500 years, representing a long continuous habitation.

Dholavira also showcases an excellent water conservation and management method quite unique to the ancient world.


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2021-10-16 15:49:34 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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