The name Gujarat in the first instant instills the image of Mahatma Gandhi in the mind of any person. This is the state of that great soul who has set certain principles, for a human being as well as the society as a whole, which have an indomitable strength. This is one of the states in the North India that is worth visiting for various factors.

I n d u s   V a l l e y   C i v i l i z a t i o n

One   of   the   world's  first  great     civilizations, it is also known as Harappan civilization. In Gujarat, Rangpur in Limdi Taluka of Ahmedabad district was the first site, which was excavated after independence as it was suspected to be a Harappan outpost. Rangpur represented a late phase of the mature Harappan culture. Further surveys of the peninsulas of Sourashtra and Kutch and the mainland of Gujarat from 1954 to 1958 brought to light different phases of the Harappan civilization and thereby added a new province to the Indus Empire. The discoveries extended the civilization by 500 Kilometers up to the north of the river Kim where another small Harappan part, Bhagatrav, gives access to the agate bearing mines and forest hills of the Narmada and Tapti Valleys.

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