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On the existence of a perennial river in the Harappan heartland

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Sarasvati River Theory

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Primary supportive paper arguing for perennial Ghaggar flow during approximately 9–4.5 ka and relating it especially to early Harappan settlement; include as a pro-flow hypothesis with its stated interval, methods, and causal claims visible.

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Sarasvati River Theory

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Identifying the Rigvedic Sarasvati with Ghaggar-Hakra is a plausible historical-geography hypothesis, but the listed studies disagree on flow timing and do not settle textual identity.

Answer / theory: Plausible but not settled. What supports it: Geography, dry channels, site distribution. What is weak or disputed: Textual dating and flow timing. Evidence level: Mixed Evidence.
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River and monsoon change affected Harappan settlement landscapes, but the catalog does not support one river's drying as a civilization-wide single cause.

Answer / theory: Environmental change contributed, but a single-cause collapse story is too simple. What supports it: Settlement shifts and weakening monsoon models. What is weak or disputed: Direct causation from one river drying. Evidence level: Mixed Evidence.
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The catalog establishes Rigvedic Sarasvati attestation and real Ghaggar-Hakra river history, but it does not establish that one mighty perennial Himalayan river sustained Mature Harappan urbanism.

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Sarasvati is textually attested in the Rigveda; identifying it with a specific Holocene Ghaggar-Hakra channel remains disputed.

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