Civilised Ancient India:

1.We Indians were inheritors of a great civilisation. We are proud of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa. Our History texts are replete with the great style of living of our forefathers.

2.The known history of "baths and bathings" is almost 5,000 years old, beginning from Mohenjo-Daro in the Indus Valley Civilisation when every house had bathrooms fitted with terra cotta pipes encased in bricks. In the remains of Harappa civilisation at a place called Lothal (62 km from Ahmedabad) sewerage system, drains and water supply systems were found in an excavation. It was the time when people amazingly had water-borne toilets in each house and the toilets were covered with burnt clay bricks. To facilitate operation and maintenance, they had man-hole covers and chambers. It was the finest form of sanitary engineering. But, with the decline of the Indus Valley Civilisation, the science of sanitary engineering disappeared from India, only to be revived 2000 years later when French and Britishers started coming to the country.

3.Harappa village also shows evidence of building blocks separated by parallel streets, bathrooms connected by terra cotta pipes with soakage jar