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: This book Vrihtar Panjab : Prachin kaal se harshvardhan kaal tak is about Indus-Sarswati Civilization . Sarasvati River is a deified river first mentioned in the Rigveda and later in Vedic and post-Vedic texts. It played an important role in the Vedic religion appearing in all but the fourth book of the Rigveda. Indus Valley Civilisation prospered when the monsoons that fed the rivers diminished around 5000 years ago and ISRO has observed that major Indus-Saraswati Valley civilization urban sites at Kalibangan (Rajasthan) Banawali and Rakhigarhi (Haryana) Dholavira and Lothal (Gujarat) lay along this course.When the monsoons that fed the rivers further diminished the Hakra dried-up some 4000 years ago becoming an intermittent river and the urban Harappan civilisation declined becoming localized in smaller agricultural communitie.This book includes the history of Punjab from Saraswati river civilization to Mouray period Gupt Period and in last Harshvardhan Period.