MERA BALI
Kalibangan
as a pre-historic site was discovered by Luigi Pio Tessitori, an Italian
Indologist (1887–1919). He was
doing some research in ancient Indian texts. He was surprised by the character
of ruins in that area, and he sought help from Sir
John Marshall of the Archaeological Survey of India. At that
time ASI had some excavations done on Harappa, but they never had any idea
about the character of the ruins. In fact, Tessitori is the first person to
recognize that the ruins are 'Prehistoric' and Pre-Mauryan.
Luigi Pio Tessitori also pointed out the nature of the culture, but at that
time it was not possible to guess that Indus Valley Civilisation lay in the
ruins of Kalibangan, and he died five years before Harappan culture was duly
recognized.
After
India's independence, both the major Harappan cities together with the Indus
became a part of Pakistan and Indian archaeologists were compelled to intensify
the search for Harappan sites in India. Amlānand Ghosh (Ex. Director General,
Archaeological Survey of India, or ASI) was the first person to recognise this
site as Harappan and marked it out for excavations. Under the leadership of B. B. Lal (then Director General,
ASI), Balkrishna (B.K.) Thapar,
M. D. Khare, K. M. Shrivastava and S. P. Jain carried out excavations for
9 years (1960-9) in 9 successive excavation sessions. Two ancient mounds
were excavated, spread over half kilometer. On western side is the smaller
mound (KLB1), 9 meters high and known as citadel. Eastern mound is higher
(12 meters) and bigger, known as lower city (KLB2).
The
excavation unexpectedly brought to light a twofold sequence of cultures, of
which the upper one (Kalibangan I) belongs to the Harappan, showing the
characteristic grid layout of a metropolis and the lower one (Kalibangan II)
was formerly called Pre-Harappan but now it is called "Early Harappan or
antecedent Harappan". Other nearby sites belonging to IVC includes Balu, Haryana, Kunal, Haryana, Banawali etc. Traces of pre-Harappan culture have been found only at the
lower levels of the western mound. According to archaeological evidence, the
Indus Valley culture existed at the site from the proto-Harappan age
(3500 BC - 2500 BC) to the Harappan age (2500 BC -
1750 BC). This earlier phase is labelled Kalibangan-I (KLB-I) or Period-I.
Similarity of pottery relates Kalibangan-I with the Sothi culture because a lot of this pottery
was later discovered at Sothi village in North Western India.
In this phase, the settlement was fortified, using dried mud
bricks, from the beginning of occupation. This fort had
been built twice in different periods. Earlier, fort wall had a thickness of
1.9 meters, which was raised to 3.7-4.1 meters during reconstruction
in this phase. Brick size was 20 × 20 × 10 cm in both construction-phases.
The citadel mound (smaller mound) is a parallelogram about 130 meters on
the east-west axis and 260 meters on the north-south. Town planning was
like that of Mohenjodaro or Harappa.
The direction of houses and brick sizes was markedly different from that used
in the Harappan phase
ALUMNI
INTERVIEW
ED: Editor, KPS: Kshemendra Pratap Singh
ED: In which year did pass school?
KPS: I passed out in 2007.
ED: What did you do?
KPS: I did my LLB and am now doing LLM (
Masters in Law) from JNV University, Jodhpur.
ED: What are you doing nowadays?
KPS: I am a Criminal Lawyer at the High
Court, Jodhpur.
ED: Did you participate in any tournament?
KPS: I played Under 14 and 19 Cricket
Tournament at District and State Level..
ED: Who was your favourite teacher when you
were studying in this school?
KPS: Well a difficult question to answer,
Okk. Jayita Ma’am.
ED: Do you remember any of your batch
mates? Are they still in contact with you?
KPS: My batch mates were Heena Vyas, Vimmy
Rajpurohit, Chandan, Khushvendra Singh, Gajendra Singh. Kapil, Paresh, Gaurav,
Naveen, Shivani, Priyanka, etc., Some of them are in contact with me.
ED: Tell us about your memories in
Fabindia.
KPS: I have countless memories of the
school. My whole childhood I spent in Fabindia, so no words for it.
ED: What message would you like to give to
the Juniors?
KPS This is your school kids. It is really
wonderful to study and do other activities in our school, a perfect silent and
non-disturbing atmosphere to learn and grow. Juniors keep the name of Fabindia
high and message for my friends is that I miss all of you a lot.
STAFF
Teachers were busy in checking the answer sheets of SA2 and
Final Examination. The staff wishes Mr. Pralay Nag a very ‘Happy Birthday’.
SKILL
Thank You God
You gave me
birth,
And a
reason to live on earth.
Thank you
God!
You gave me
friends,
You gave me
a reason to dance
You gave me
mom and dad,
For this I
am very glad.
Thank you
God!
You gave me
family so wonderful!
And this
has made my life beautiful!
Thank you
God!
You made me
wise,
And helped
me to become nice.
Thank you God!
Muskan Rathod/ X/ TH
Exams are Over
Oh! What a
relief,
I can’t
believe,
That exams
are over,
Now no
longer to suffer.
I am happy,
Whole day
play and no study,
Watch
cartoons,
No more
shouts from Parents
To study
and no play.
Free from
stress
Time to
celebrate
For exams
are over.
Anumesh Rao/ VIII/ GH
STUDY
Saturday,
25th March: SA II of Class VI to XI got over on 25th
March. Final Examinations from Class Nursery to V got over on 23rd
March. The students were seen relieved after a span of ten days. The teachers
are busy in correction work. The students of Class III- VIII, XI were shown
their Exam Papers and the marks obtained in SA II on 16th, 18th,
21st and 23rd March. May they come up with flying colours in
their Academic Result which is going to be held on 3rd April’2017.