The Indus has defined the inhabitants of regions east of the Indus since at least the last 4000 years. In Avestan, the word Hendu denotes a natural frontier, a river, and Hapta Hendu was an ...

This map depicts the geographical span of the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), showing the location of Rakhigarhi (blue), other significant IVC sites (red), and sites to the north and west from ...

Learn what happened to the Indus civilisation. Understand how the Indus civilisation ended and the legacy of its people in this BBC Bitesize history guide.

Oxford University historian Peter Frankopan explained the influence of climate and geography on human history in his book ‘The Earth Transformed: An Untold Story’. He gave an overview of it to ...

Contrary to statist narrations about the advent of Islam into South Asia as being of one-sided benefit to the ‘pagan’ region, there is plenty of evidence from Islam’s ‘Golden Age’ to ...

The geography makes it next to impossible to stop the flow of the waters from the Indus, ... The main Kashmir Valley is just a hundred km wide at its maximum and 15,520.30 km2 in area.

Linguist Peggy Mohan examines early Indus Valley languages and their lack of ‘literature’ An excerpt from ‘Father Tongue, Motherland: The Birth of Languages in South Asia’, by Peggy Mohan.

CHENNAI: Scholars including professors and archaeologists contended that the Indus valley civilisation is not an Aryan civilisation and that the language of the ...

Beginnings of a River. The Indus is an antecedent river, which means it has existed for over 50 million years, since the Indian plate first collided with Asia and gave rise to the Himalayas.