Ancient Indus Valley Civilization Books

136 new and classic books on the ancient Indus civilization, from exhibition catalogues to excavation reports, from the scientific to imaginative fiction for kids and adults.

A Companion to South Asia in the Past

Gwen Robbins Schug

Over 500 pages of great insight and new data reveals the quiet and powerful role of bioarchaeology in Indus studies. Bioarchaeology is by one of its first practitioners, as "the reconstructions of past people's lives based on a multidisciplinary analysis of archaeological human remains. Bioarchaeology is one of the few fields of inquiry that emphasizes integration of three subdiscipines of anthropology: biological anthropology, archaeology, and sociocultural anthropology."

Connections and Complexity: New Approaches to the Archaeology of South Asia

Shinu Anna Abraham

This volume, dedicated to the archaeologist Dr. Gregory Possehl, has been edited by his former students, and presents a series of case studies that develop and investigate the broad range of ideas and research that "Dr. P" fostered through his research and teaching.

Marshalling the Past: Ancient India and its Modern Histories

Nayanjot Lahiri

This anthology of thirteen essays by Nayanjot Lahiri combines twenty years of scholarship on various topics related to the historiography of ancient India. Using her training as an archaeologist, and an extensive experience with archival material, Lahiri marshalls a wide and disparate set of materials into an accessible and compelling assemblage that is supported by rigorous research.

Prehistoric Rock Art of India

Erwin Neumayer

An extraordinary book illuminating the rich imagistic life in the subcontinent tens of thousands of years before ancient Indus times by an Austrian pioneer in the field.

Southern Asia, Australia, and the Search for Human Origins

Robin Dennell

This is the first book to focus on the role of Southern Asia and Australia in our understanding of modern human origins and the expansion of Homo sapiens between East Africa and Australia before 30,000 years ago.

The Indus Civilization An Interdisciplinary Perspective

D. P. Agrawal

It spreads over an area of more than a million sq km, an area much bigger than the Mesopotamian and the Egyptian Civilizations which are famous for their sepulchral splendor. Though technologically innovative, the Indus Civilization in marked by a modesty and the functionality of its architecture and artifacts.

Dasharajna: The Battle of Ten Kings (Harappa Book 3)

Shankar Kashyap

This is the story based on the main event within the seventh book of Rigveda.

Excavation at Surkotada and Exploration in Kutch

Jagat Pati Joshi

"The most controversial and sought after animal in Indian archaeology has been the horse," writes the author. "At

The Unicorn Expedition

Satyajit Ray

"I have a book open before me on my desk which is about the ancient civilisation of Mohenjo-daro. Apart from the pottery, toys, figurines and ornaments, diggings at Mohenjo-daro . . .."

The Roots of Hinduism: The Early Aryans and the Indus Civilization

Asko Parpola

A BOOK REVIEW of Asko Parpola's investigation of twin roots of Hinduism, the religion brought to South Asia in the second millennium BCE by speakers of Aryan or Indo-Iranian languages, and the more enigmatic Indus civilization of the third millennium BCE.

With a note by Iravatham Mahadevan.

The Paleaolithic Settlement of Asia

Robin Dennell

One of the least understood or investigated issues is the prehistory of the Indian subcontinent, long before the Indus civilization (3500-1700 BCE) and before Mehrgarh (ca. 7000 BCE).

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Finding Forgotten Cities

Nayanjot Lahiri

How the Indus Civilization Was Discovered

Events leading to the IVC's public recognition as a major episode in Indian history in 1924. Told in an accessible way and based on new research into original ASI documents by a well-respected scholar.