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Cemetry H is one of the three phases of Late Indus valley civilization after the Saraswati dried. Other two were Jhunkar phase in Sindh and Rangpur phase in Gujarat.

Rigveda indeed mention about Saraswati. One Rigvedic verse mention Saraswati river situated between Satluj and Yamuna while other Rigveda mentions about Saraswati river flowing from mountains to the sea and Ghaggar-Hakra river system matches this description and satellite mapping shows that it...

Seems you haven't read Rigveda about Rigvedic funeral, Rigveda actually mention two ways of funerals Agnidagdha(cremation) and Anagnidagdha (non-Cremation) in Rigvedic verse 10.15.14 (I have seen that verse). moreover, Brahmi script and Indus script could be connected if we could find a missing...

Rigvedic refers to Sapta Sindhu phase of Vedic culture where Saraswati is the most revered river instead of Ganges. When Saraswati dried in 2000BC and the Ganges river became most revered for the rest of the period and Saraswati was preserved in the mythology and one of the three rivers of...

The main reason is that Hinduism as a foreign invader's religion is still quite enticing to lot many people. Actually, Indus valley civilization existed as far as 1000BC at many places based on pottery design. Moreover, in Sindh the boat design still resembles the one used during Indus valley...

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@Kay @sgarg all major early civilizations of the world first used hieroglyph script then switch to alphabets. The best example would be the Egyptians.

16 Mahajanapadas actually came from Buddhist sources around 600BC. Moreover, Mahabharata also mentions Chola, Chera, Kerala, Andhra, Konkana etc. fighting in Mahabharata war.

IMO both epics are based on true events. Even the Greek epic poem Iliad is like that but historians now know that Trojan war actually happened and they uncovered the ancient city of Troy in Turkey. Well Hinduism as a religion has evolved for thousands of years, so don't think what we follow...

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Indus valley civilization is the archaeological and Rigveda is the textual proof of the same Rigvedic civilization in the Sapta Sindhu. British colonialists just made them into two civilization to make them fit in their Aryan-Dravidian propaganda. Archaeologist B.B. Lal talks about his book...