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Harappan Architecture – 2500 to 1800 BC

March 22, 2020 by BureaucratONE Leave a Comment Last Updated March 24, 2020

Table of Contents hide
1 Common Features
2 Sites
3 Town Planning
4 Housing Pattern
5 Imp. Architectural Structures

Common Features

  1. Indigenous and Independent
  2. Concentration on utility factor over artistic factor

Sites

  1. Harappa
  2. Mohenjodaro
  3. Ropar
  4. Kalibangan
  5. Lothal
  6. Rangpur

Town Planning

  • Unity in diversity is the theme
  • Cities divided into (not all)
    • Citadels - for ruling class
    • Lower Town - for common people
  • Variations of town planning in different sites due to geography
    • Mohenjodaro, Harappa, Kalibanga - citadel fortified
    • Mohenjodaro - burnt bricks
    • kalibangan - mud bricks
    • Kotdiji & Amri - no fortification
    • Lothal - no division of city
  • Grid pattern - streets cut at right angle
  • Sanitation measures - houses connected t main drainage through small drains and drains covered by loose slabs to allow cleaning

Housing Pattern

  • Baked Clay Bricks
  • Fixed-size
  • Use of stone and wood
  • Included toilets, upper-stories, courtyard and well

Imp. Architectural Structures

  • Great Bath - Mohenjadaro
    • stairs, changing rooms, waterproofing
  • Granaries - Mohe & Harappa
    • air ducts, platform, in citadel
  • Dockyard - Lothal
    • lock-gate system for stable water level

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