INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Rai Bahadur Daya Ram Sahni CIE (16 December 1879 – 7 March 1939) was an Indian archaeologist who supervised the excavation of the Indus valley site at Harappa in 1920 to 1921 But the first report of Harappan excavations came out in 1921, 29 March by John Marshall.

Detailed explanation-2: -Rai Bahadur Daya Ram Sahni, under the direction of Sir John Hubert Marshall, led the first excavation of the Harappa site which led to the discovery of the Indus Valley civilization.

Detailed explanation-3: -Conclusion. The Indus Valley Civilisation was discovered in the early 1900s by a British archaeologist named John Marshall. Since then, archaeologists have uncovered more and more evidence of this ancient culture, which is now thought to date back as far as 3300 BC.

Detailed explanation-4: -The civilization was first identified in 1921 at Harappa in the Punjab region and then in 1922 at Mohenjo-daro (Mohenjodaro), near the Indus River in the Sindh (Sind) region. Both sites are in present-day Pakistan, in Punjab and Sindh provinces, respectively.