(The) Decline and fall of the Indus civilization / edited by Nayanjot Lahiri

Includes bibliography.

PART I: INDUS CITIES AND THE ARYANS: HISTORICAL CONQUERORS MYTHICAL MARAUDERS OR VEDIC HARAPPANS: First formulations: Chanda vs Chanda: The Indus valley in the Vedic period / Ramaprasad Chanda -- The Aryans: a study of Indo-European origins / V. Gordon Childe -- Survival of the prehistoric civilization of the Indus valley / Ramaprasad Chanda -- The debate continues : Harappa 1946: the defences and cemetery R37 / R. E. M. Wheeler -- The supposed carnage of the city people by the Aryans / P. V. Kane -- The relation of Harappan culture with the Rig Veda / A. D. Pusalker -- The mythical massacre at Mohenjodaro / George F. Dales -- It is time to rethink / B. B. Lal -- Have Aryans been identified in the prehistoric skeletal record from South Asia? Biological anthropology and concepts of ancient races / Kenneth A. R. Kennedy -- Aryan invasions over four millennia / Edmund Leach -- PART II: ENVIRONMENT AND COLLAPSE: Silt and sediment: evidence and interpretation : Chanhu-daro excavations / E. J. H. Mackay -- Lothal: a Harappan port town / S. R. Rao -- Bio-geological evidence bearing on the decline of the Indus valley civilization / M. R. Sahni -- The Indus flood plain and the 'Indus' civilization / H. T. Lambrick -- The consequences of river changes for the Harappan settlements in Cholistan / M. R. Mughal -- Kalibangan: death from natural causes / Robert Raikes -- Remote sensing of the lost Saraswati river / Yash Pal, Baldev Sahai, R. K. Sood and D. P. Agrawal -- High resolution holocene environmental changes in the Thar Desert, Northwestern India / Y. Enzel, L. L. Ely, S. Mishra, R. Ramesh, R. Amit, B. Lazar, S. N. Rajaguru, V. R. Baker and A. Sandler -- Climate, a factor in the rise and fall of the Indus civilization - evidence from Rajasthan and beyond / V. N. Mishra -- The impact of Harappan on the environment: The origin, character and decline of an early civilization / Walter A. Fairservis -- PART III: FROM A CITY CIVILIZATION TO A PHASE OF DEVOLUTION: Continuity or change: The late Harrapans / Dilip K. Chakrabarti -- Conquerors from the west / Stuart Piggott -- Excavation at Rangpur and other explorations in Gujarat / S. R. Rao -- Survival? Revival? Import? / A. Ghosh -- Dholavira / R. S. Bisht -- Late Harappan settlements of Western India, with special reference to Gujarat / Kuldeep K. Bhan -- Continuity and change in the north Kachi plain (Baluchistan, Pakistan) at the beginning of the second Millennium / J. F. Jarrige -- The patterns and problems in the history of crops / Dilip K. Chakrabarti -- Rice and ragi at Harappa: preliminary results by plant opal analysis / H. Fujiwara, M. R. Mughul, A. Sasaki and T. Matano -- Raw material usage and trade routes / Nayanjot Lahiri