Thread by @Aabhas24

1/n #SadarPranam to Ishvara within you @Ram_Guha Ji!

Sárasvatī is not mythological but a true river as per latest scientific explorations.
Hence many Historians began to use terms for IVC:

A)Sarasvati Civilization
B)Indus-Sarasvati Civilization
C)Sindhu-Sarasvati Civilization

https://twitter.com/Ram_Guha/status/1408645439377666049

2/n The Historians I'm talking about are:
1)Upinder Singh
2)Charles Keith Maisels

& few more.

So @Ram_Guha any idea why they are saying so?

3/n Michel Danino makes a very strong case for Harappan Civilization being Vaidik in nature and also gives historicity of Sarasvati in his book "The Lost River - On the trail of the Sarasvati" published in 2010.

@GeneralBakshi also makes strong case in his book.

4/n Initial studies suggested that the Sutlej and Yamuna changed the course between 2500 BC-1900 BC. The reason cited was:

"Tectonic events resulting in the drying-up of the Hakra in the Thar Desert.

Hakra has been identified as Saraswati.

5/n The literature for such claims are:

1)The ancient Indus Valley by Jane McIntosh

2)Hydrology and Water Resources of India by Sharad K. Jain & others

3)The "Lost" Sarasvati and the Indus civilization by S P Gupta

6/n
4)Paper by Raikes (1968)
5)Paper by Suraj Bhan (1972, 1973, 1975, 1977)
6)The dawn of Indian civilization. History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization
7)Yashpal, B.. “Remote sensing of the lost Saraswati river.” (1980).

7/n 8)The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture: The Indo-Aryan Migration Debate by Edwin Bryant oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/0…

9)The Saraswati Flows on: the Continuity of Indian Culture by BB Lal

8/n 10)Balram Bhandu & D Mitra (2012)Possible contribution of River Saraswati in groundwater aquifer system in western Rajasthan, India. Current Science. 102. 685-689 researchgate.net/publication/28…
11)Glaciological & Geological Source of Vedic Saraswati in the Himalayas"by BC Puri(1998)

9/n 12)The Transformation of the Indus Civilization
by Gregory L. Possehl jstor.org/stable/25801118

13)Kenoyer, J. M. (1997). "Early city-states in south Asia: Comparing the Harappan phase and the Early Historic period" by Kenoyer

10/n 14)On the existence of a perennial river in the Harappan heartland by Anirban Chatterjee ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

So these were just few papers in my knowledge which acknowledge presence of River Saraswati & its drying @Ram_Guha

11/n From 12/n I'll give you evidences that how the drying of River Saraswati now goes earlier than the alleged matured Harrapan Phase.

How many papers among those stated by me have you read before jumping around Saraswati being myth @Ram_Guha ?

12/n As per the next set of research:

Now we know that Sutlej and the Yamuna shifted course lot before the Harappan times.

They left the monsoon-fed Ghaggar-Hakra (Saraswati) which dried-up during late Harappan times.

Check this image

13/n The Legend for the above image is:
1=ancient river
2=today's river
3=today's Thar desert
4=ancient shore
5=today's shore
6=today's town
7=dried-up Hakkra course, and pre-Harappan Sutlej paleochannels

14/n The image in 12/n represents Vedic & present-day Gagghar-Hakra river-course, with Aryavarta/Kuru Kingdom, and (pre-)Harappan Hakkra/Sutlej-Yamuna paleochannels.

The sources for above claims are:
1)semanticscholar.org/paper/U-Pb-zir…
2)nature.com/articles/s4159…

15/n Dear @Ram_Guha , this paper too supports such claim pnas.org/content/109/26…

16/n You get an interesting observation in this paper. semanticscholar.org/paper/U-Pb-zir…

It gives us results using the dating of zircon sand grains.

17/n Results are:

Subsurface river channels near the IVC sites in Cholistan immediately below the presumed Ghaggar-Hakra channel show sediment affinity not with the Ghagger-Hakra, but instead with the Beas River in the western sites & the Sutlej & the Yamuna in the eastern ones.

18/n It means that the Yamuna itself, or a channel of the Yamuna along with a channel of the Sutlej may have flowed west some time between 47K -10K BC.

The drainage from the Yamuna may have been lost from the Ghaggar-Hakra well before the beginnings of Indus civilization.

19/n Although the current Ghaggar-Hakra is a intermittent river passing through India and Pakistan the satellite images lying with @ISRO and @ONGC_ reflect that the major course of a river ran there.

This document has details isro.gov.in/sites/default/…

20/n By 2011, @Ram_Guha , people had already about the River in the Thar. The report of ISRO, which I cited in 19/n was based on this terrific work published in International Journal of Remote Sensing.

researchgate.net/publication/23…

21/n I'm shocked that celebrated Architect, Author @TheGautamBhatia has written this rubbish article which you shared.

Architects are people of logic, science & rationale but here he messes up with all aspects.

People, architects don't have such narrow perspective, in general.

22/n We have confirmed result that the sediments were received in the Rann of Kutch from a different source than the Indus River.

And that source stopped supplying sediments around 10KY BP.

Read this paper. I spoke of it in 14/n too.
nature.com/articles/s4159…