Banawali
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Banawali is an archaeological site belonging to the Indus Valley civilization period in Fatehabad district, Haryana, India and is located about 120 km northeast of Kalibangan and 16 km from Fatehabad. Banawali, which is earlier called Vanavali, is on the left banks of dried up Sarasvati River.
 |
This article related to India is a stub. You can help Wikiquote by expanding it. |
Quotes[edit]
- This Harappan city of about 10 ha was found in the Fatehabad district of Haryana, on the bank of an old bed of the Ghaggar. According to R.S. Bisht, who directed the excavations in the 1970s, ‘Banawali was an important administrative headquarters or provincial capital and a prosperous trading centre along the Sarasvatī during the Indus times.’
- Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India.
