GOLDEN JUBILEE LECTURES ON ENVIRONMENT

Did Rains do the Harappans In?
Speaker: Dr Shereen Ratnagar, Professor of Archaeology and Ancient History (retd.), JNU

Chair: Dr Uma Chakravarti, Professor of History (retd.), Miranda House, DU

The title refers to the headline of a recent newspaper report on a research hypothesis which will be examined in this talk. A wider perspective will be attempted, touching on summer inundations, flashflood harvesting, stormwater drains, and winter showers, even the possible symbolic importance of the buffalo, all constituting  bronze-age monsoon management