The Harappan Timeline

Though we have called it the Harappan Timeline, it concerns the entire Indus-Sarasvatī archaeological complex, or what has also been called the Greater Indus Valley, or what the Reich-Narsimhan study has called the Indus Periphery; though Reich-Narsimhan’s Indus Periphery may extend beyond Greater Indus Valley, as it includes all those “who were in cultural contact with the Indus Valley Civilisation”. Going forward, for the sake of brevity, we shall often use the term Harappan to refer to the Greater Indus Valley. The purpose of the timeline is to get some clues for dating the major inflows of communities relevant to Kōṁkaṇ - the kṣatrīya, the kirāt and the brāmhaṇ. Along with the dating, we are also interested in gaining further insight into their origin and the route they followed.