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Mohenjo-daro’s ‘Dancing Girl’: The Silence Surrounding Women in Public History
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South Asia Monitor
I have visited both Mohenjo-daro and Harappa, two of the great urban centres of the Indus Civilisation, located in present-day Pakistan.
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And when we ask about the women who inhabited those streets and homes, certainty gives way to silence.
A History Older Than BordersThe Indus Civilisation cannot be contained within one modern national story.
The answer is not to make assumptions about the women of Mohenjo-daro, but to recognise the silence surrounding them — and ensure that we do not reproduce it around women living now.