GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Indus civilization, also called Indus valley civilization or Harappan civilization, the earliest known urban culture of the Indian subcontinent. The nuclear dates of the civilization appear to be about 2500–1700 bce, though the southern sites may have lasted later into the 2nd millennium bce.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Indus River Valley Civilization, 3300-1300 BCE, also known as the Harappan Civilization, extended from modern-day northeast Afghanistan to Pakistan and northwest India.

Detailed explanation-3: -Harappa was the other name for the Indus Valley Civilization. Further Reading: Indus Valley Civilization.

Detailed explanation-4: -Harappan civilisation was India’s first civilisation. The Indus civilisation is also known as the Harappan Civilisation, after its type site, Harappa, which was the first of its sites to be excavated in what was then British India’s Punjab province and is now Pakistan, early in the twentieth century.