‘Sardar’ K.M. Panikkar, Quoted by Lahiri, Nayanjot, ‘What Lies Beneath’, Hindustan Times, New Delhi edn, 16 February 2008.in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India.
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With the separation of the Pakistan Provinces, the main sites of what was known as the Indus Valley Civilisation have gone to Pakistan. It is clearly of the utmost importance that archaeological work in connection with this early period of Indian history must be continued in India. A preliminary examination has shown that the centre of the early civilisation was not Sind or the Indus Valley but the desert area in Bikaner and Jaisalmer through which the ancient Saraswati flowed into the Gulf of Kutch at one time.

— K. M. Panikkar

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K. M. Panikkar

About K. M. Panikkar

Kavalam Madhava Panikkar (3 June 1895 – 10 December 1963), was an Indian novelist, journalist, historian, administrator and diplomat. He was born in Travancore, then a princely state in the British Indian Empire and was educated in Madras and at the University of Oxford.