Test : Town Planning Architecture

Lothal was one of the Indus cities that has houses with doors on the main streets. 

• The Indus Valley Civilization is the earliest known culture of the Indian subcontinent of the kind, now called Urban.
• The people of the Indus Valley, also known as Harappan (Harappa was the first city in the region found by archaeologists), achieved many notable advances in technology, including great accuracy in their systems and tools for measuring length and mass.
• The ancient Indus systems of sewerage and drainage developed, which were used in cities throughout the region. It was far more advanced than any other found in contemporary urban sites in the Middle East, and even more efficient than those in many areas of Pakistan and India today.

By 2600 BC, Mohenjo-daro and Harappa are the major cities of the Indus Valley Civilization, which were built with blocks divided by a grid of straight streets and running north-south and east-west. Each block was subdivided into small lanes.

Like Kalibangan, the citadel and the town were fortified, each having independent entrances in the South and also an intercommunicating gate.

• Statement 1 is correct - Some of the stairs present in the buildings indicate that they might have been a double-storey.
• Statement 2 is correct - Some of the buildings in citadels might have been the residence of the rulers and aristocrats. Chanduhara is the only city which doesn’t have citadel.

• The floor of the bath was constructed of sawn bricks set on edge in 'The Great Bath'. It is a finely built brick structure that measures 12m by 7m and is nearly 3m deep from the surrounding pavement.
• The floor of the bath was constructed of sawn bricks set on edge in gypsum mortar, with a layer of bitumen sandwiched between the inner and outer bricklayers.
• Water was supplied by a large well in an adjacent room, and an outlet from one corner of the bath led to a high corbelled drain disgorging on the west side of the mound.

• Statement 1 is correct: The bricks were of standard size and ratio (4:2:1) and similar standardized bricks were employed in all settlements in this culture. Each of the houses is built around a courtyard with rooms built around it.
• Statement 2 is correct: The domestic house planning and architecture is well evident from the lower town of the Mohenjo-Daro.

• Statement 1 is incorrect: Granaries were found at several sites such as Harappa, Lothal and Mohenjo-daro.
• Statement 2 is correct: Two rows of six granaries were found at Harappa  that appear to be foundations are arranged along a central passageway that is about 7 meters wide and partly paved with baked bricks.

The Great Bath is one of the well-known structures among the ruins of Mohenjo-Daro in Sindh, Pakistan. It was built in the 3rd millennium BCE soon after the building of the Citadel. It measures 11.88 × 7.01 metres and has a maximum depth of 2.43 metres.

It was a small farming village. It is one of the earliest sites with evidence of farming and herding in South Asia. Mehrgarh is now seen as a precursor to the Indus Valley Civilization, displaying the whole sequence from earliest settlement and the start of agriculture, to the mature Harappan Civilisation.