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THE PROBLEM
OF THE SARASVATI RIVER
AND NOTES ON THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY
OF HARYANA & INDIAN PANJAB
Dilip K. Chakrabarti & Sukhdev Saini
A long history of archaeological research notwithstanding, the
broad issues of the archaeological and historical geography of
Haryana and Indian Panjab,
i.e., the stretch between the Yamuna on the east and the Ravi
on the west, have not been studied in depth. Based on their fieldwork
in the region in
2007 and 2008, the authors of the present volume take a significant
step in this direction. The problem of the Sarasvati River has
also been put in a
clear historiographical perspective. This is something which is
missing from the voluminous and often confusing literature on
the subject. The present
volume also includes a gazetteer of the protohistoric and historic
sites of Haryana in the form of several tables. This also brings
to close the first author's study of the archaeological geography
of the entire alluvial sweep from the Chattagram coast to the
present Panjab border with Pakistan, which has been detailed in
his Ancient Bangladesh (1992); Archaeological Geography of the
Ganga Plain: The Lower and the Middle Ganga (2001); and Archaeological
Geography of the Ganga Plain: The Upper Ganga (Oudh, Rohilkhand
and the Doab) (2007).
2009; pp. xiv+302; Size 19cm x 25cm; B/w Illus. 14; Figs. &
Maps 86 Bibliography; Index; ISBN-978-81-7305-381-8; Rs. 1500
Dilip K. Chakrabarti is Emeritus Professor of South Asian Archaeology,
and Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological
Research,
Cambridge University. Sukhdev Saini teaches in the Department
of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology of Kurukshetra
University, and has a wide experience of explorations and excavations
on behalf of his university
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