list out any 10 differences between Mohenjo-Daro and harappa
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Harappa in historical terms is more significant than other ancient cities. Not only was it discovered first which pushed back the history of the subcontinent at least five thousand years back, forcing a review of human evolution, but also provided a unique insight into the process that created a multilayered and complex society that is subcontinent. It was Harappa and its surrounding areas that bore the brunt of early waves of Aryans, thus transforming all the aspects of life in our part of the world for all time to come. Here on the banks of river Ravi in the vicinity of Harappa the Rig-Veda, the most sacred of four Vedas, was revealed or composed which laid the foundation of moral, ethical and social code of a newly emerging mixed society as a consequence of intermingling of vanquished Dravidians and victorious Aryans. The seals found in Harappa revealed that it had some form of written language along with Egypt and Mesopotamia though its script unfortunately still remains undeciphered despite the best efforts of linguistic experts. One hopes that the unraveling of this mystery some time in future will again compel us to review the historical march of mankind.
Both Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, the glory of the ancient world, are highly important chapters in the book of world history but in Pakistan are excluded from the national narrative due to ill-conceived ideological imperatives evolved by the state and the elite that trace our historical origins in the conquest of northern India by Arabs and central Asian Muslim warlords and kings, obfuscating the undeniable reality that people can change their faith, not their history. So a spectre of history haunts our elite which insist to see our past shaped by our current faith alone. This can only be done by erasing from our textbooks and collective memory the indelible marks that point to what we inherited from our Dravidian, Hindu and Buddhist forebears.
Denying history means denying our very existence which is an outcome of a long evolutionary process driven by dynamics of intermingling strands of diverse experiences. Being unable to handle ‘God’s plenty’ what our ruling club is scared of, is diversity. And diversity is what defines society in any region of subcontinent. To counter the ‘dangers’ to national cohesion posed by the phenomenon of diversity, faith inspired notion of monolithic unity is touted as a panacea by both the Muslim extremists in Pakistan and the Hindu fanatics in India. Whatever they do to have a sanitised image of themselves, they are destined to fail in their unnatural project.