How can you say that the Harappan culture was an urban one.

1.	How can you say that the Harappan culture was an urban one.
Answer» Solution :Harappan culture was an urban one as: (i) The HOUSES were made of burnt bricks and CONTAINED more than one storey. Every house had a well and a bathroom. (ii) The DRAINAGE system was excellent with house-drains emptying into street-drains. (iii) The cities were well-planned and THICKLY populated. The roads were straight and wide,in grid pattern, intersected each other at right angle. (iv) The citadel of Harappa had public buildings. Most cities had huge granaries. (v) Lothal had a dockyard and was an important TRADING centre. (vi) After the decline of the Harappan culture, town planning was forgotten and there was absence of the city life for about thousand years.

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