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Historians always knew about the Harappan civilisation.

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The above statement is False.
The British colonial government took measures to expand railway lines in India. Nearly a hundred and fifty years ago, when the government laid down railway lines for the first time in Punjab, engineers stumbled upon the site of Harappa (present-day Pakistan). Initially, it seemed like a mound with a rich source of ready-made and high-quality bricks. Hence workers carried off thousands of bricks from the walls of the old buildings for railway work which destroyed many old buildings. Archaeologists found the site and realised that this was one of the oldest cities in the subcontinent about eight years later. All the sites found later were described as Harappan.
The correct statement is that Historians knew about the Harappan civilisation when the railway tracks were being constructed.

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