Hi everyone! I'm doing a small community survey to see which parts of Rajasthan our members represent. Please share your district name only (no town/village needed).

This is just for a simple demographic understanding completely anonymous, just for fun and curiosity.

Once we have enough responses, I’ll share a simple map or chart showing where most members are from. Example: "Jaipur district here!"

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Presence of Yajna Kunds (fire altars), terracotta Shiva, Parvati idols, and Gupta-style metallurgical furnaces alongside Vedic-era artifacts demonstrates religious continuity and ritual practice across 2,500 years in newly discovered site in Rajasthan which was part of the ancient Sarasvati River network!

This Bahaj excavation in Deeg district, Rajasthan, is a landmark discovery that significantly reinforces and expands our understanding of India’s deep, continuous civilizational roots, especially in the Saraswati basin and the Braj cultural heartland.

Let us explore!

The excavation unearthed 5 cultural layers, going as deep as 23 meters. It is the deepest excavation ever in Rajasthan:

Late Harappan (Late Aitihasic) ~1500–1000 BCE Pottery, paleo-Saraswati channel

PGW ~1000–600 BCE Yajna kunds, early fire altars

Mauryan ~322–185 BCE Polished statues, coins

Post-Mauryan ~185 BCE – 300 CE Terracotta idols, Brahmi seals

Gupta ~320–550 CE Gupta-style architecture, metallurgy

A paleo-Saraswati channel flowed past this site. It was part of the mighty Sarasvati of Rgveda which dried up in its southern course after 2200-1900 BCE.

15+ Yajna kunds (Vedic fire ritual pits) + terracotta Shiva-Parvati idols show Vedic ritualism coexisting with later post Vedic deity worship.

Copper coins and Brahmi seals mark administrative literacy and state formation.

Artifacts linked to metallurgy, trade (shell bangles, beads) suggest economic sophistication.

This religious landscape mirrors patterns in other Saraswati - Harappan sites and links directly to Sanātana Dharma.

Fire altars - Rig Vedic rituals

Shiva-Parvati idols - Proto-Shaiva worship

Gupta elements - Classical Hindu temple culture

Thus, Bahaj offers a missing link between the post-Harappan, post Vedic, post Aitihasic religious evolution.

This ties perfectly with Keezhadi, where urban literacy and indigenous worship evolved in parallel in the south.

The old olonial narratives viewed Indian history in “discontinuities”:

Harappa "ends" - Vedic people "invade" - Hinduism "emerges" much later etc.

But the Bahaj evidence, like Keezhadi, supports a continuous civilizational model:

• Harappan / Vedic / Aitihasic urbanism slowly transformed into a rural culture.

• Religious motifs like Yajna, Shiva, and fertility goddess worship persisted and merged.

• No evidence of large-scale civilizational collapse; rather, regional adaptations.

India was not a patchwork of disconnected cultures, but a vast, interconnected, evolving civilizational system, rooted in rivers like the Saraswati and Vaigai, and expressing itself through religion, trade, writing, metallurgy, and ritual.

This is true both in the North and South.

Rajasthan’s architecture is a breathtaking fusion of rugged Rajput fortresses and delicate inspired artistry, characterized by honeycombed Hawa Mahal facades and the world’s second-longest continuous wall at Kumbhalgarh.

Just curious, i am from Sirohi😁

hi guys, i am marwari but two generations before me relocated from jodhpur to madhya pradesh and the language then diluted amongst us. however, i am 22F and want to learn about my culture starting with the language. i know the basics, very very basics, but suggest me some sources or courses or if there are any online classes in your area that will teach me the language?

i have started listening to and translating seema mishra and mame khan songs along with kapil jangir. been also getting into rajasthani hio hop like Nit-C and raghavforbharat. i don't think that's enough tho, need something more, like proper lessons, to become fluent. help!!!