Common Features
- Indigenous and Independent
- Concentration on the utility factor over the artistic factor
Sites
- Harappa
- Mohenjodaro
- Ropar
- Kalibangan
- Lothal
- Rangpur
Town Planning
- Unity in diversity is the theme
- Cities are divided into (not all)
- Citadels – for the ruling class
- Lower Town – for ordinary people
- Variations of town planning in different sites due to geography
- Mohenjodaro, Harappa, Kalibanga – citadel fortified
- Mohenjodaro – burnt bricks
- kalibangan – mud bricks
- Kotdiji & Amri – no fortification
- Lothal – no division of the city
- Grid pattern – streets cut at the right angle
- Sanitation measures – houses connected t main drainage through small drains and drains covered by loose slabs to allow cleaning
Housing Pattern
- Baked Clay Bricks
- Fixed-size
- Use of stone and wood
- It included toilets, upper stories, a courtyard and well
Imp. Architectural Structures
- Great Bath – Mohenjadaro
- stairs, changing rooms, waterproofing
- Granaries – Mohe & Harappa
- air ducts, platform, in the citadel
- Dockyard – Lothal
- lock-gate system for stable water level