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do individual harappan house have baths and privies​

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Answer:yes,the were having bathrooms and are discribed below:

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"The bathroom itself was usually a small square or rectangular room with a carefully-laid brick pavement sloping towards one corner. In this corner was the outlet for the water, which, in some cases also ran through the latrine. The walls surrounding the bath pavement were invariably wainscotted with bricks laid on edge so as to stand about three inches above the level of the floor (P. B, a [above]). The slope of the pavement and the close-setting of the bricks of which it was made provided against the infiltration of water, but, as a further precaution, the pavement was sometimes laid on a thick bed of pottery debris....

In some cases the brick floors of the bathrooms had been polished by the friction of bare feet, while in others they show a deep red deposit, which may have been caused by perspiration or by the use of oil to prevent the skin from cracking–a custom prevalent in India at the present day. Some bathrooms contained the remains of water jars, and, to judge from the number of pottery models that have been found in the drains, it would seem that the childish habit of taking play-things into the bath has persisted for thousands of years. Certain clay objects found from time to time are thought to be strigils with which the people of Mohenjo-daro used to rub themselves down; it is certain that they used pottery rasps to removed thickened cuticle." (Ernest Mackay, The Indus Civilization, 1935, pp.41-44)

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