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{{short description|Intermittent river in India and Pakistan}}
{{distinguish|Ghaghara River}}
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| name = Ghaggar-Hakra River
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| image_caption = Aerial view of Ghaggar river near Chandigarh
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| map_caption = Present-day Gagghar-Hakra river-course, with (pre-)Harappan paleochannel as proposed by Clift et al. (2012).<ref>See [https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Satellite-image-of-the-Indus-River-system-showing-the-study-sites-Stars-indicate_fig1_229062223 Clift et al. (2012) map] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211011105058/https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Satellite-image-of-the-Indus-River-system-showing-the-study-sites-Stars-indicate_fig1_229062223 |date=11 October 2021 }} and [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-05745-8/figures/1 Honde te al. (2017) map] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201114035153/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-05745-8/figures/1 |date=14 November 2020 }}.</ref><br />
1 = ancient river<br/>
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See also [https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Sir+Creek/@27.9238648,69.0488446,1290954m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x39527a0557ec4543:0x9e7e9966b79d473b!8m2!3d23.8379562!4d68.2376719 this] satellite image.
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| source1_location = [[Shivalik Hills]], [[Himachal Pradesh]], India
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| mouth_location = Ottu, [[Haryana]], India
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The '''Ghaggar-Hakra River''' is an [[intermittent river]] in [[India]] and [[Pakistan]] that flows only during the [[monsoon season]]. The river is known as Ghaggar
The [[Sutlej]] changed its course about 8,000-10,000 years ago, leaving the Ghaggar-Hakra as a system of monsoon-fed rivers terminating in the Thar Desert.{{sfn|Singh et al.|2017}}{{sfn|Clift et al.|2012}} The [[Indus Valley
Nineteenth and early 20th century scholars, but also some more recent authors, have suggested that the Ghaggar-Hakra might be the defunct remains of the [[Sarasvati River]] mentioned in the [[Rig Veda]], fed by Himalayan-fed rivers, despite the fact that the Ghaggar-Hakra had dried up by that time.<ref>{{Cite book |author=Sanyal, Sanjeev |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/855957425 |title=Land of the seven rivers : a brief history of India's geography |date=10 July 2013 |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=978-0-14-342093-4 |oclc=855957425 |language=en}}</ref>
==River course==
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The basin consists of two parts, [[Khadir and Bangar]]. ''Bangar'' are the higher banks that are not flooded in rainy season, while ''khadar'' refers to the lower flood-prone area.<ref group=web name="Har1">[http://www.haryana-online.com/geography.htm HaryanaOnline - Geography of Haryana] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201121800/http://www.haryana-online.com/geography.htm |date=1 February 2016 }}</ref>
===Ghaggar River===
[[File:Ottu reservoir.jpg|thumb|The Ghaggar river flows into the Ottu reservoir, afterwards it becomes the Hakra river]]
[[File:Ghaggar river near Naurangdesar village.jpg|thumb|Ghaggar river's dry bed in February
[[File:Ghaggar river.jpg|thumb|alt=Ghaggar river in September, near Anoopgarh [[Sri Ganganagar]] Rajasthan|Ghaggar river, near [[Anupgarh|Anoopgarh]], [[Rajasthan]] in the month of September]]
The '''Ghaggar''' is an intermittent [[river]] in [[India]], flowing during the [[monsoon]] [[rain]]s.
Dammed at [[Ottu barrage]] near Sirsa, Ghaggar feeds two irrigation canals that extend into Rajasthan.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}
====Tributaries of the Ghaggar====
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The main tributaries of the Ghaggar are the [[Kaushalya river]], [[Markanda river, Haryana|Markanda]], [[Sarsuti]], [[Tangri river|Tangri]] and [[Chautang]].<ref name="SharmaKalwar2005" />
The Kaushalya river is a tributary of Ghaggar river on the left side of Ghaggar-Hakra, it flows in the [[Panchkula district]]
===Hakra River===
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This Sutlej/Yamuna paleochannel streamed through [[Sindh]], and its sign can be found in Sindh areas such as [[Khairpur District|Khairpur]], [[Shaheed Benazir Abad District|Nawabshah]], [[Sanghar District|Sanghar]] and [[Tharparkar]].
A large number of sites from the Mature [[Indus Valley
==Paleography==
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The paleo-channel of the Sutlej was active until the end of the Ice Age, some 10,000-8,000 years ago,{{sfn|Singh et al.|2017}}{{sfn|Khonde et al.|2017}} emptying into the [[Rann of Kutch]] via the [[Eastern Nara|Nara river]].{{sfn|Clift et al.|2012}}{{sfn|Khonde et al.|2017}}
Clift ''et al''. (2012), using dating of zircon sand grains, have shown that subsurface river channels near the [[Indus Valley
Analysis of sand grains using [[optically stimulated luminescence]] by Ajit Singh and others in 2017 indicated that the suggested paleochannel of the Ghaggar-Hakra is actually a former course of the Sutlej, which diverted to its present course before the development of the Harappan Civilisation. The abandonment of this older course by the Sutlej started 15,000 years ago, and was complete by 8,000 years ago.{{sfn|Singh et al.|2017}} Ajit Singh et al. conclude that the urban populations settled not along a perennial river, but a monsoon-fed seasonal river that was not subject to devastating floods.{{sfn|Singh et al.|2017}}
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Khonde et al. (2017) confirm that the Great Rann of Kutch received sediments from a different source than the Indus, but this source stopped supplying sediments after ca. 10,000 years ago.{{sfn|Khonde et al.|2017}} Likewise, Dave et al. (2019) state that "[o]ur results disprove the proposed link between ancient settlements and large rivers from the Himalayas and indicate that the major palaeo-fluvial system traversing through this region ceased long before the establishment of the Harappan civilisation."{{sfn|Dave et al.|2019}}
===Indus Valley
[[File:IVC rivers map.jpg|thumb|Outline of the Indus Civilization, with concentration of settlements along the Ghaggar-Hakra. See [https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-Greater-Indus-Valley-Civilization-adapted-from-Tokai-University-2000_fig2_329600632 Sameer et al. (2018)] for a more detailed map.]]
{{Main|Indus Valley
====Mature IVC====
During the IVC, the Ghaggar-Hakra fluvial system was not a large glacier-fed Himalayan river, but a monsoonal-fed river.{{sfn|Giosan et al.|2012}}{{refn|group=note|name=Giosan.2012}}<!-- **START OF NOTE** -->{{refn|group=note|According to Chatterjee et al. (2019) the Ghaggar-Hakra channel was perennial receiving sediments from Higher and Lesser Himalayas from 80-20K years ago and 9-4.5K years ago, and ceased to exist during the last Glacial Maximum. It was perennial after the last Ice Age due to reactivation from distributaries of the Sutlej, during the pre, early and middle Harappan period, from 7000BCE to 2500BCE. The river became seasonal after that and completely dried up by 1900 BCE.{{sfn|Chatterjee|Ray|Shukla|Pande|2019}} In response, Sinha et al. (2020) state that "most workers have documented the cessation of large scale fluvial activity in NW India in early Holocene, thereby refuting the sustenance of the Harappan Civilisation by a large river."{{sfn|Sinha|Singh|Tandon|2020|p=240}}}}<!-- **END OF NOTE** --> The Indus Valley Civilisation prospered when the monsoons that fed the rivers diminished around 5,000 years ago,{{sfn|Giosan et al.|2012}} and a large number of sites from the Mature [[Indus Valley
According to archaeologist Rita Wright, the large number of documented sites may be due to the ephemeral nature of the settlements, with the inhabitants frequently moving around in pursuit of water.<ref>Stephanie Pappas (28 November 2017), [https://www.livescience.com/61039-ancient-indus-civilization-survived-without-rivers.html Mystery Solved: How the Ancient Indus Civilization Survived Without Rivers], LiveScience</ref> According to archaeologist Shereen Ratnagar, many Ghaggar-Hakra sites in India are actually those of local cultures; some sites display contact with Harappan civilisation, but only a few are fully developed Harappan ones.<ref name="Ratnagar">{{cite book |last=Ratnagar |first=Shereen |year=2006 |title=Understanding Harappa: Civilization in the Greater Indus Valley |location=New Delhi |publisher=Tulika Books |isbn=978-81-89487-02-7 |ref=Shereen-2006b |pages=7–8 |language=en |quote=If in an ancient mound we find only one pot and two bead necklaces similar to those of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, with the bulk of pottery, tools and ornaments of a different type altogether, we cannot call that site Harappan. It is instead a site with Harappan contacts. ... Where the Sarasvati valley sites are concerned, we find that many of them are sites of local culture (with distinctive pottery, clay bangles, terracotta beads, and grinding stones), some of them showing Harappan contact, and comparatively few are full-fledged Mature Harappan sites.}}</ref> Hetalben Sidhav notes that claims of a large number of Ghaggar-Hakra sites are politically motivated and exaggerated. While the Indus remained an active river, the Ghaggar-Hakra dried up, leaving many sites undisturbed, which explains why such a large number of sites has been found.{{sfn|Sindhav|2016|p=103}}
====Drying-up of the Hakra and decline of the IVC====
Late in the 2nd millennium BCE the Ghaggar-Hakra fluvial system [[aridification|dried up]], becoming the small seasonal river it is today, which affected the Harappan civilisation.{{sfn|Giosan et al.|2012}}{{refn|group=note|name=Drying-up}}{{refn|group=note|name=Giosan.2012}}<ref name=madella-fuller>{{cite journal |last1=Madella |first1=Marco |last2=Fuller |first2=Dorian |year=2006 |title=Palaeo-ecology and the Harappan civilisation of south Asia: A reconsideration |journal=Quaternary Science Reviews |volume=25 |issue=11–12 |pages=1283–1301 |doi=10.1016/j.quascirev.2005.10.012 |bibcode=2006QSRv...25.1283M}}</ref><ref name=macdonald>{{cite journal |last=MacDonald |first=Glen |year=2011 |title=Potential influence of the Pacific Ocean on the Indian summer monsoon and Harappan decline |journal=Quaternary International |volume=229 |issue=1–2 |pages=140–148 |doi=10.1016/j.quaint.2009.11.012 |bibcode=2011QuInt.229..140M}}</ref><ref name=brooke-2015>{{cite book |last=Brooke |first=John L. |title=Climate Change and the Course of Global History: A rough journey |date=17 March 2014 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O9TSAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA296 |page=296 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-87164-8 |access-date=1 October 2016 |archive-date=18 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230418050414/https://books.google.com/books?id=O9TSAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA296 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{refn|group=note|From Brooke (2015):<ref name=brooke-2015/> “The story in Harappan India was somewhat different (see Figure 111.3). The Bronze Age village and urban societies of the Indus Valley are some-thing of an anomaly, in that archaeologists have found little indication of local defence and regional warfare. It would seem that the bountiful monsoon rainfall of the Early to Mid-Holocene had forged a condition of plenty for all, and that competitive energies were channelled into commerce rather than conflict. Scholars have long argued that these rains shaped the origins of the urban Harappan societies, which emerged from Neolithic villages around 2600 BC. It now appears that this rainfall began to slowly taper off in the third millennium, at just the point that the Harappan cities began to develop. Thus it seems that this "first urbanization" in South Asia was the initial response of the Indus Valley peoples to the beginning of Late Holocene aridification. These cities were maintained for 300 to 400 years and then gradually abandoned as the Harappan peoples resettled in scattered villages in the eastern range of their territories, into the Punjab and the Ganges Valley ... .” — Brooke (2015)<ref name=brooke-2015/>{{rp|page=17}} (footnotes)<br />
(a) {{cite journal |first1=Liviu |last1=Giosan |display-authors=etal |year=2012 |title=Fluvial landscapes of the Harappan Civilization |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
(b) {{cite journal |first=Camilo |last=Ponton |year=2012 |title=Holocene aridification of India |journal=Geophysical Research Letters |volume=39 |issue=3 |page=L03704 |doi=10.1029/2011GL050722 |bibcode=2012GeoRL..39.3704P |hdl=1912/5100 |s2cid=140604921 |postscript=; |hdl-access=free
(c) {{cite journal |first1=Harunur |last1=Rashid |display-authors=etal |year=2011 |title=Late glacial to Holocene Indian summer monsoon variability based upon sediment records taken from the Bay of Bengal |journal=Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=215–228 |doi=10.3319/TAO.2010.09.17.02(TibXS) |bibcode=2011TAOS...22..215R |url=http://research.bpcrc.osu.edu/Icecore/publications/Rashid%20et%20al%20Terr%20Atmos%20Ocean%20Sci%202011v222p215.pdf |postscript=; |doi-access=free
(d) {{Cite journal |last1=Madella |first1=Marco |last2=Fuller |first2=Dorian Q. |year=2006 |title=Palaeoecology and the Harappan civilisation of south Asia: A reconsideration |journal=Quaternary Science Reviews |volume=25 |issue=11–12 |pages=1283–1301 |doi=10.1016/j.quascirev.2005.10.012 |bibcode=2006QSRv...25.1283M}}<br />
Compare with the very different interpretations in Possehl (2002),{{sfn|Possehl|2002|pages=237–245}} and Staubwasser ''et al''. (2003),<ref>{{cite journal |first1=Michael |last1=Staubwasser |display-authors=etal |year=2003 |title=Climate change at the 4.2 ka BP termination of the Indus Valley
}} Paleobotanical information documents the aridity that developed after the drying up of the river.<ref>Gadgil and Thapar (1990), and references therein</ref> The diminishing of the monsoons particular
The same widespread aridification in the third millennium BCE also led to water shortages and ecological changes in the Eurasian steppes,<ref group=web name="Kochhar2017">Rajesh Kochhar (2017), [http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/aryans-dna-genetics-archaeology-4765740/ "The Aryan chromosome"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210619202352/https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/aryans-dna-genetics-archaeology-4765740/ |date=19 June 2021 }}, ''The Indian Express''</ref>{{sfn|Demkina|2017}} leading to a change of vegetation, triggering "higher mobility and transition to nomadic cattle breeding,"{{sfn|Demkina|2017}}{{refn|group=note|Demkina et al. (2017): "In the second millennium BC, humidification of the climate led to the divergence of the soil cover with secondary formation of the complexes of chestnut soils and solonetzes. This paleoecological crisis had a significant effect on the economy of the tribes in the Late Catacomb and Post-Catacomb time stipulating their higher mobility and transition to the nomadic cattle breeding."{{sfn|Demkina|2017}}}}{{sfn|Anthony|2007|p=300, 336}}{{refn|group=note|See also Eurogenes Blogspot, [http://eurogenes.blogspot.nl/2017/07/the-crisis.html ''The crisis''].}} These migrations eventually resulted in the Indo-Aryan migrations into South Asia.{{sfn|Anthony|2007}}<ref group=web name="Kochhar2017"/>
Most of the Harappan sites along the Ghaggar-Hakra are presently found in desert country, and have remained undisturbed since the end of the Indus Civilization. This contrasts with the heavy alluvium of the Indus and other large Panjab rivers that have obscured Harappan sites, including part of [[Mohenjo-daro|Mohenjo Daro]]. [[Painted Grey Ware]] sites ({{circa}} 1000–600 BCE) have been found at former IVC-sites at the middle and upper Ghaggar-Hakra channel,{{sfn|Giosan|2012|p=4}} and have also been found in the bed and not on the banks of the Ghaggar-Hakra river, which suggests that river was certainly dried up by this period.{{sfn|Bryant|2001|p=168}}<ref name="Gaur 1983">{{cite book |last=Gaur |first=R. C. |title=Excavations at Atranjikhera, Early Civilization of the Upper Ganga Basin |year=1983 |location=Delhi}}</ref> The sparse distribution of the Painted Gray Ware sites in the Ghaggar river valley indicates that during this period the Ghaggar river had already dried up.
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===Rig Veda===
The Sarasvati River is mentioned in all books of the [[Rigveda]] except the [[Mandala 4|fourth]]. It is the only river with hymns entirely dedicated to it: [[RV 6]].61, [[RV 7]].95 and [[RV 7]].96. It is mentioned as a divine and large river, which flows "from the mountains to the samudra," which some take as the [[Indian Ocean]]. The Rig Veda was composed during the latter part of the late Harappan period, and according to Shaffer, the reason for the predominance of the Sarasvati in the [[Rig Veda]] is the [[late Harappan]] (1900–1300 BCE) population shift eastwards to [[Haryana]].<ref>{{cite book |first=J. |last=Shaffer |year=1999 |editor1-first=J. |editor1-last=Bronkhorst |editor2-first=M. |editor2-last=Deshpande |title=Aryans and Non-Non-Aryans: Evidence, interpretation, and ideology |publisher=Cambridge University Press |series=[[Harvard Oriental Series]], Opera Minora 3 |language=en}}</ref>
The identification with the [[Sarasvati River]] is based on the mentions in Vedic texts, ''e.g.'' in the enumeration of the rivers in Rigveda [[Nadistuti sukta|10.75]].05; the order is [[Ganges|Ganga]], [[Yamuna]], Sarasvati, [[Sutudri]], [[Parusni]]. Later Vedic texts record the river as disappearing at Vinasana (literally, "the disappearing") or Upamajjana, and in post-Vedic texts as joining both the Yamuna and Ganges as an invisible river at Prayaga (Allahabad). Some claim that the sanctity of the modern Ganges is directly related to its assumption of the holy, life-giving waters of the ancient Saraswati River. The [[Mahabharata]] says that the Sarasvati River dried up in a desert (at a place named Vinasana or Adarsana).<ref>[[Mahabharata]] 3.80.118, 3.130.3–4, 6.7.47, 9.34.81, 9.36.1–2</ref>
===Identification===
Nineteenth and early 20th century scholars, such as orientalist [[Christian Lassen]] (1800–1876),<ref name=Koenig1876>{{citation |title=Indische Alterthumskunde Christian Lassen: Geographie und die älteste Geschichte |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j1sW1vB4uRcC&pg=PA91 |year=1847 |publisher=H. B. Koenig |page=91}}</ref> philologist and Indologist [[Max Müller]] (1823–1900),<ref>[[Sacred Books of the East]], 32, 60</ref> archaeologist [[Aurel Stein]] (1862–1943), and geologist [[Richard Dixon Oldham|R. D. Oldham]] (1858–1936),<ref>Oldham 1893 pp.51–52</ref> had considered that the Ghaggar-Hakra might be the defunct remains of a river, the [[Sarasvati River|Sarasvati]], invoked in the orally transmitted collection of ancient [[Vedic Sanskrit|Sanskrit]] hymns, the [[Rig Veda]] composed
More recently, but writing before Giosan's 2012 publication and supposing a late Harappan diversion of the Sutlej and the Yamuna, several scholars have identified the old Ghaggar-Hakra River with the Vedic [[Sarasvati River]] and the Chautang with the [[Drishadvati River]].{{refn|group=note|Such scholars include [[Gregory Possehl]],{{sfn|Possehl|1997}} [[J. M. Kenoyer]],{{sfn|Kenoyer|1997}} [[Bridget Allchin|Bridget]] and [[Raymond Allchin]],{{sfn|Allchin|Allchin|1982|p=160}} [[Kenneth A. R. Kennedy|Kenneth Kennedy]],{{sfn|Erdosy|1995|p=44}} [[Franklin Southworth]],{{sfn|Erdosy|1995|p=266}} and numerous Indian archaeologists.}} Gregory Possehl and Jane McIntosh refer to the Ghaggar-Hakra River as "Sarasvati" throughout their respective 2002 and 2008 books on the Indus Civilisation,{{sfn|McIntosh|2008}}{{sfn|Possehl|2002}} and Gregory Possehl states "Linguistic, archaeological, and historical data show that the Sarasvati of the Vedas is the modern Ghaggar or Hakra."{{sfn|Possehl|2002}}
Because most of the Indus Valley sites known so far are actually located on the Ghaggar-Hakra river and its tributaries and not on the Indus river, some Indian archaeologists, such as S.P. Gupta,
===Objections===
[[Romila Thapar]] terms the identification "controversial" and dismisses it, noticing that the descriptions of Sarasvati flowing through the "high mountains" does not tally with Ghaggar's course and suggests that Sarasvati is Haraxvati of Afghanistan which is also known as the [[Helmand river]].<ref name="Thapar2004">{{cite book |first=Romila |last=Thapar |year=2004 |title=Early India: From the origins to AD 1300 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-24225-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/earlyindiafromor00thap/page/42 42] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/earlyindiafromor00thap/page/42 |language=en}}</ref> Wilke suggests that the identification is problematic since the Ghaggar-Hakra river was already dried up at the time of the composition of the Vedas,{{sfn|Wilke|2011}} let alone the migration of the Vedic people into northern India.{{sfn|Witzel|2001|p=93}}{{sfn|Mukherjee|2001|p=2, 8-9}}
The idea that the Ghaggar-Hakra was fed by Himalayan sources has also been contradicted by recent geophysical research, which shows that the Ghaggar-Hakra system, although having greater discharge in Harappan times which was enough to sustain human habitation, was not sourced by the glaciers and snows of the [[Himalayas]], but rather by a system of perennial monsoon-fed rivers.{{sfn|Giosan et al.|2012}}{{sfn|Maemoku|Shitaoka|Nagatomo|Yagi|2013}}{{sfn|Clift et al.|2012}}{{sfn|Singh et al.|2017}}{{refn|group=note|name=Giosan.2012}} In contrast to all Himalayan rivers in the region that dug out wide valleys in their own sediments as the [[monsoon]] declined, no such valley exists between the [[Sutlej]] and the [[Yamuna]], demonstrating that neither the Ghaggar-Hakra nor any other Sarasvati candidate in that region had a Himalayan source.{{sfn|Giosan et al.|2012}}{{sfn|Maemoku|Shitaoka|Nagatomo|Yagi|2013}}
Rajesh Kocchar further notes that, even if the Sutlej and the Yamuna had drained into the Ghaggar during [[Vedic period]], it still would not fit the [[Rig Veda|Rig Vedic]] descriptions because "the snow-fed Satluj and Yamuna would strengthen [only the] lower Ghaggar. [The] upper Ghaggar would still be as puny as it is today."<ref name=Kocchar/> According to Rajesh
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{{refn|group=note|name=Drying-up|{{harvtxt|Mughal|1997}} concludes that during the Bronze Age the Ghaggar-Hakra sometimes carried more, sometimes less water. {{harvtxt|Mughal|1997}} states that satellite photography has shown that the Ghaggar-Hakra was a large river that dried up several times, as corroborated by an isotope study by {{harvtxt|Tripathi et al.|2004}}<ref group=web>{{cite web |url=http://hakra.totallyexplained.com/ |title=Hakra |website=Totally Explained |access-date=2009-08-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120712174106/http://hakra.totallyexplained.com/ |archive-date=12 July 2012 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> According to [[M. R. Mughal]], the Hakra dried-up at the latest in 1900 BCE,{{sfn|Mughal|1997}} but {{harvtxt|Tripathi et al.|2004}} conclude that it took place much earlier. [[Henri-Paul Francfort]], utilising images from the [[SPOT (satellites)|French satellite SPOT]] two decades ago, found that the large river Sarasvati is pre-Harappan altogether, and started drying up already in the middle of the 4th millennium BCE; during Harappan times only a complex irrigation-canal network was being used. The date should therefore be pushed back to {{circa}} 3800 BCE.}}
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