The External Trade of the Indus Civilization
A detailed examination of Indus artifacts, real or not, found outside the subcontinent, including in Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, the Persian Gulf, Mesopotamia, Syria, Egypt, and Crete.
Books available at Amazon India and Amazon US.
Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
The ancient world of Mesopotamia (from Sumer to the subsequent division into Babylonia and Assyria) vividly comes alive in this portrayal of the time period from 3100 BCE to the fall of Assyria (612 BCE) and Babylon (539 BCE).
Daimabad 1976-79
Discovered in 1958, the excavations between 1976-79 by the Archaeological Survey of India shed much light on this late and post-Harappan site in Maharashtra, then the southern-most known Indus site.
Rediscovering Harappa | Through the Five Elements
This superb catalogue is available below as a free PDF (6.6 MB), and is described in greater detail in this blog post An Awesome Indus Exhibition Catalogue.
Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Post-Colonial India
"The indigenous seems to reside and grow deep within the colonial," writes the author (p. 86) of this book.
The Ancient South Asian World
An exceptional introduction to South Asian archaeology written at the middle school level and part of the popular The World in Ancient Times series.
The Decline and Fall of the Indus Civilization
Essays by leading specialists that outline the issues, hypotheses, and questions raised over the last decades. The editor presents a lengthy introduction that outlines the history, developments and complexities of the Indus Civilization.
The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia: Language, Material Culture and Ethnicity
A number of essays collected by a prominent theoretician of language and culture and a Sanskritologist, with contributions by Madhav Deshpande, Arvind Sharma, Mark Kenoyer, Asko Parpola and others.
Studies in the Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology of South Asia
Important essays on the pre-Indus period and after, helping set the wider and still really little known context for this civilization's rise.
Winter on the Plain of Ghosts: A Novel of Mohenjo-daro
Winter on the Plain of Ghosts is an epic story of sorcery, religious conflict, political intrigue and ecological disaster in the lost cities of the Indus Valley.