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when the harrapan ruins were discovered in the early nineth century and examined by sir Alexander Cunningham why did'nt he take any action of digging or finding out what was it, as he was in the archaeological survey of british india .
Asked by pradip.ballav | 07 May, 2023, 09:46: AM
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Even though Alexander Cunningham was the first Director-General of the ASI, initally, he did not pay a lot of attention to the ruins of the Harappan civilization because Cunningham’s main interest was in the archaeology of the Early Historic (c. sixth century BCE-fourth century CE) and later periods. He used the accounts left by Chinese Buddhist pilgrims who had visited the subcontinent between the fourth and seventh centuries CE to locate early settlements. A site like Harappa, which was not part of the itinerary of the Chinese pilgrims and was not known as an Early Historic city, did not fit very neatly within his framework of investigation. So, although Harappan artefacts were found fairly often during the nineteenth century and some of these reached Cunningham, he did not realise how old these were. This was because he, like many others, thought that Indian history began with the first cities in the Ganga valley. Given his specific focus, it is not surprising that he missed the significance of Harappa.
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