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Indian Ethnicity and Religious Heritage
of Mohan-jo-daro ? In what way it differed from those of Sumer or the Nile? What were the main classes of buildings nearthed in the Indus Valley? What are the unique features of drainage system as found in the Indus Valley. How was it different from that found in Sumer.
A perfect model Town Planning, almost according to modern notions, was known by the planners of Mohan-jo-daro. Streets were laid out rectangularly, properly aligned. Houses and public buildings had full correspondence with thorough fares, streets were 9' to 34' in width and running sometimes half a mile. Each lane had a public well and houses also had private well and baths. There were no monumental buildings and temples as in Sumer or Nile because the aim was practical utility and comfort rather than refineness or art. This was the main difference in the Architecture of Mohan-jodaro and Sumer or Nile.
There were no fortifications found, perhaps this was the reason why Indra, the war lord of Aryans, was able to destroy their towns successfully.
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