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The Social Lives of Figurines – Recontextualizing the Third–Millennium–BC Terracotta Figurines from Harappa

Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, vol. 86. Of all the untapped veins to mine in ancient Indus studies, none may be as rich as the thousands of figurines excavated from all sites.

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The Magic in the Image: Women in Clay at Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa

Shereen Ratnagar

Do the many female figurines at Indus sites justify the belief that the worship of a "mother Goddess" was prevalent then? One of India's most distinguished archaeologists offers a contrary viewpoint in this deeply informed, multi-faceted analysis of these figurines.

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A Day in the Life of Maya of Mohenjo-daro

Mulk Raj Anand

Published in 1968, A Day in the Life of Maya of Mohenjo-Daro by Mulk Raj Anand was the first ever children’s story, and the second work of Indus Valley fiction after Murdon ka Teela written by Rangeya

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