"To put the tale synoptically. The Harappan cities collapsed, the civilization declined, but the people survived it all, though bereft of their glorious past. Their great, great, great _.. grandfathers had brought into being these Gites ā gradually from a village economy to that of a town and through great strides to that of a city. The decline of the civilization entailed an end of the cities and reversed the direction. To borrow a simile, the Harappan urbanism may be likened to a storm on the vast ocean of Indian time, which raged, held on for some time but finally subsided, leaving the waters as placid as before. Cities came and went, but the villages kept on for ever!"
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Academics from IndiaNon-fiction authors from IndiaHistorians from IndiaIndologistsArchaeologists from India
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Lal, B. B. (1997). The earliest civilization of South Asia : rise, maturity, and decline. Aryan Books International., page 279
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/B._B._Lal
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
B. B. Lal
Braj Basi Lal (2 May 1921 ā 10 September 2022), better known as B. B. Lal, was a renowned Indian archaeologist. He was the Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) from 1968 to 1972, and has served as Director of the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla. Lal also served on various UNESCO committees.
18 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by B. B. Lal ā
Related Quotes
"I don't say so, but my spade tells me so."
"It is true that the Rigveda does not provide us details of the inner layout of these forts, but surely the text was nā¦"
"The great civilization of the Indian subcontinent, has had its roots deep in antiquity, some seven to eight thousand ā¦"
"What is that āsomethingā, some inherent strength? Doubtless it lies in the liberal character of the Indian civilizatiā¦"
"Here it may perhaps be stated straightaway that so far no unimpeachable evidence has been adduced to prove or even toā¦"
"Under a project called āArchaeology of the Ramayana Sitesā excavations were carried out between 1975 and 1986 at fiveā¦"
"At Ayodhya, as many as fourteen trenches were laid out at different spots, one of which was the area known as the Janā¦"
"In the mosque there are fourteen stone pillars some of which appear to be in position and oriented east-west and nortā¦"
"The supporters of the Aryan-invasion theory have not been able to cite even a single example where is evidence of 'inā¦"
"Lal (1997, 9) considers the Sarasvati to have been alive in Kalibangan in the third millennium B.C.E. and dried up atā¦"