What are the basic features of …

City is divided in two regions small higher area and lower large area. Lower large residential area has bricks build houses with windows, doors and court yard, staircase, roofs, kitchens and bathrooms. The houses are multiple stored buildings. They have well constructed drainage system. The principal towns of Indus valley civilization were Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro, Kalibangan, Lothal. The important characteristic of Indus valley civilization is cleanliness, town outlining, the architecture of burnt-brick dwellings, ceramics, molding, forging of metals, construction of cotton and woolen textiles.

The domestic architecture of the Harappan household was seen through the residential buildings in the Mohenjodaro. These buildings had a courtyard in the centre, used for activities like cooking and weaving especially in the dry weather. The courtyard was surrounded by rooms and no windows were seen in the rooms at the ground floor. The courtyard wasn’t visible from the main entrance. Every house had a bathroom made of bricks and drains connecting to the outside drains. Some house had stairs for accessing the second floor and some had wells made in the room.