BHOPAL: A lecture series ‘Lokruchi Vyakhyayan Mala’ was organised at Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sanghrahalaya on Thursday. Dr Devprakash Sharma, former director, Bharat Kala Bhawan, Banaras Hindu University, delivered a lecture on ‘New Harappan in Saraswati Basin’. Dr Sharma said Harappa region should not be called Indus Valley civilisation but Sindh-Saraswati civilization. It was European historians who termed it as Indus Valley though it is situated between Sindhu and Saraswati rivers.
Dr Sharma, using power-point presentation and pictures, said that it is a fact that Saraswati River was not an imagination and it disappeared due to geographical changes. Dr Sharma said as many as 2449 Harappan and pre-Harappan sites have been discovered by the researchers. He said the centre of this civilization was India.
Basant Singhe of Deccan College said Rakhi Garhi was situated in 350 hectare of land and it was bigger than Harappa and Mohenjodaro. This civilization flourished 10,000 years ago in the region of Sindhu and Saraswati rivers.
