{"id":61116,"date":"2021-11-11T07:13:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T07:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=61116"},"modified":"2021-11-11T07:13:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T07:13:22","slug":"planning-of-houses-in-harappa-upsc-daily-important-topic-11-november-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/planning-of-houses-in-harappa-upsc-daily-important-topic-11-november-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"PLANNING OF HOUSES IN HARAPPA: UPSC Daily Important Topic | 11 November 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PLANNING OF HOUSES IN HARAPPA<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wpsm_box red_type nonefloat_box mb30\" style=\"text-align:left; width:auto\"><i><\/i><div>\n\t\t\tTopic: Harappanicivilization\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>People lived in houses of different sizes, mostly consisting of rooms arranged around a central courtyard.<\/li><li>Doorways and winfows generally faced the side lanes and rarely opend onto the main streets.<\/li><li>The view from the lane into the courtyard was blocked off by a wall.<\/li><li>There are remains of staircases that may have led to the roof or a second story.<\/li><li>The fact that some of the houses at Mohenjodaro were two stories high or more is also suggested buy the thickness of their walls.<\/li><li>Floores were usually made of hard packed earth, often re-plastered or covered with sand.<\/li><li>The ceitings were probably over 3 m high. Roofs may have been made of wooden beams covered with and packed clay.<\/li><li>The doors and windows of houses were made of wood and mats.<\/li><li>Many houses or groups of houses had separate bathing areas and toilets.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLANNING OF HOUSES IN HARAPPA People lived in houses of different sizes, mostly consisting of rooms arranged around a central courtyard. Doorways and winfows generally faced the side lanes and rarely opend onto the main streets. The view from the lane into the courtyard was blocked off by a wall. There are remains of staircases [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":61117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1755],"tags":[1797],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-61116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upsc-important-topics","tag-upsc-daily-important-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61118,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61116\/revisions\/61118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61116"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=61116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}