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ranjitjat
October 23rd, 2003, 05:08 PM
ASI to begin excavations for Indus Valley Civilisation
Our Correspondent

Fatehabad, October 22
The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) will begin excavations near Bhirdana village in this district next week. Evidence about the existence of the Indus Valley Civilisation had been found here.

Mr R.S. Bist, Joint Director of the ASI, was here yesterday with his team. He visited several archaeological sites in the district, including Banawali, Kunal and Bhirdana. The Joint Director also visited the old fort of Fatehabad town where a pillar dating back to the period of Ashoka was situated.

The Deputy Commissioner, Dr R.B. Langyan, today said that Mr Bist had told him that the ASI would begin excavations at Bhirdana by next week. He said that he suggested the ASI team to develop the old fort and the adjoining lake of the town in to a tourist place. Dr Langyan said that the Union Tourism Minister, Mr Jagmohan, was expected to visit the town and its surrounding archaeological spots very soon.

The ASI had identified Banawali, Kunal and Bhirdana as sites of the times of Indus Valley Civilisation, while the old fort and the adjoining lake at the town was constructed by Mughal emperor Firoze Shah Tuglak. A pillar is situated in an idgah in the middle of the fort. Certain historians term this pillar as the ‘Vijay Stoop’ of Ashoka the Great while some others term this as ‘Firozi Laat’.



DHARMPAL DUDEE

rajendersingh
October 23rd, 2003, 08:02 PM
dudee ji namaskar,
thanks for sharing the news.its realy good news.till recently we were only talking of the sites which were britishers one or the other time,now time has come to exercise ourselves as a independent country and find our rich heritage.the old theories of western researches will be replaced by new.there is no doubt that much more will come out if the govt take it as mission to dig the realty.
there is a fort in hansi ,i belive that no body has tried to find the date when and by whom it was built?i read in one of arbic translation that this fort was conquered by a muslim in 10 th century. before that, it was known as a virgin fort,as no body had been able to do so.so we can imagin the antiquity of the fort. like this there are so many sites which can be considered by the department concerned.

ranjitjat
October 29th, 2003, 05:44 PM
Dear Rajender singh
Namaskar
Thank you for your interest.
Yes this is true - HANSI- BHATNER SIRSA,
KHOKARA KOT- ROHTAK,ARE ANCENT pre- Mahabharat Forts in India.
Other old Historical sites are.
MITHATHAL- BHIWANI
ORANGABAD NEAR BAMLA IN BHIWANI DIST.
KHOKARA KOT- ROHTAK
MOHANBADI- JHASAVA IN JHHAJAR
BADASAHAPUR
SUNET
PILI BANGA
RAKHI GARHI
AGAROHA FORT- IN HISAR
HAVAN KUND & TEMPLE ON TOSAM HILL- BHIWANI
Recently a statue found in RANELA VILLAGE
. POTTERY FOUND IN BIGOVA VILLAGE.
A SHIVA TEMPLE FOUND IN JHOJHU KALAN
ALL THESE SITES ARE NEAR CHARKHI DADRI- DIST BHIWANI- HARYANA.

HASATANAPUR
PRIKSETH NAGAR IN MEERUT UP