The further extent of the Indus civilisation may, no doubt, with proper exploration, be traced towards the North-West beyond Sargodha into the Mari-Indus.tract and to the North-East into the Ludhiana district, and even beyond the Jumna. "With the limited funds available it is proposed to make a beginning with trial excavation on some of the mounds on the south-east of the Punjab. The best known of these mounds are those at Agroha in the Hissar district and the extensive site of Khokra Kot, near the town of Rohtak, Operations will be commenced next cold weather at the latter site.
In this connection it may be noted that ever since the discovery of the ruins of the ancient cities at Mohenjadaro and Harappa in the Punjab, disclosing the remains of a well-developed urban civilisation in the third millennium B.C., Indian archaeologists have been confronted with the problem of the extent and scope of India's oldest culture.
During the 12 years that have elapsed since investigations were commenced in these two extensive city sites, surveys have been made by Mr. M. C. Majumdar in the plains and hilly tracts of Sind and in the Northern and Southern Baluchistan by Sir Aurel Stein, which have brought to light a number of other sites disclosing cultures contemporary with or slightly earlier or later than Harappa and Mohenjadaro.
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