"In the course of a survey project limited to only a section of the Hakra/Ghaggar in the Cholistan desert in Bahawalpur state (representing three hundred miles of the Pakistan side of the Hakra part of the riverbed), Mughal mapped out a total of 414 archaeological sites on the bed. This dwarfs the number of sites so far recorded along the entire stretch of the Indus River which number only about three dozen. The centrality of the river, both archaeologically and culturally, has led a minority of Indian archaeologists to propose, and to begin to adopt, die term Indus- Sarasvati Civilization in lieu of the labels Harappan or Indus Valley Civilisation."
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in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. chapter 9
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