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Ep. 112: Early Indians

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Evolution of Culture in Harappa

The Harappan civilization was as big as Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations put together. It had a fair degree of standardization in its mature face across a large number of things. But there are no images of human-on-human violence except for one seal somewhere, which also shows a woman being flanked on two sides with two men who are with their spears, you know, angled at each other. And even the sculptures that we have from the Harappan, you would be surprised at how small they are.

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