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Explais
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town 'planing
in Acient india​

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As the birthplace of Indian culture, the towns of the Indus Valley represent an important and rich source of information concerning urban development in the Indian subcontinent. The Indus River is one of the largest and most important rivers in south central Asia. From its source in the Himalayan Mountains to its terminus in the Indian Ocean it traverses a course of over 2,000 miles. For millennia it has been an essential route for travel, trade, and communication and has been the source of much of India's agricultural production. The valley which surrounds the Indus River has witnessed the birth, growth, and death of many cities.

Excavations of Indus towns have demonstrated the most ancient town planning in the world. The grid pattern (straight streets intersecting other straight streets at right angles) is among the most common and universal types of town planning. The discovery and excavation of the most famous of these sites, Mohenjo‐daro, by Sir John Marshall (1931) and Ernst...