Waters of Empire - Book of Days 2015
From the Blog odysseuslahoriNature’s greatest gift to the Indian subcontinent is the multitude of perennial rivers. Every spring, they swell with glacial melt brought down from far off snow fields. And even as the first flood begins to ebb, there starts the great surge fed by the annual monsoons. Our earliest ancestors, having given up their hunter-gatherer way of life and put down agrarian roots, were quick to realize the annual brown flood of high summer fertilized the soil. This knowledge, they put to good use. Unsurprisingly, investigations at Mehrgarh, Balochistan, the first human settlement in the subcontinent, inferentially suggest evidence of irrigation by flooding with water diverted from rivers. This was about the year 6000 BCE. Fast forward some 3000 years to the heyday of Harappa and Moen jo pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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