Discuss whether everybody in Harappan society could have been equal.

It is hard to imagine an egalitarian society especially in a place like Harappa which was highly developed because:

1. Let us look at the town planning, it was divided into two section upper and lower town. The way it was built was different and it was walled and seperated from the lower town. Thus there was certain distinction betweent the two.

2. If we look at the burial, we see that there are few graves that are lined with bricks and some with potteries and other artefacts Such differences could be because of the social distinction. Although we cannot be sure about it.

3. When we look at the distribution of luxury goods, we find that large cities had the evidences of it whereas smaller one like kalibangan did not. Through this we can guess that there did exist inequality in Harappan cities.

4. In Harappa people of different occupations lived, some were definitely merchants, other were small traders, some were farmers other were artisans and so on. The people in different types of work and occupations of different nature cannot have the same income. Thus we can safely assume the existence of inequality.

5. Moreover there are archaeological evidences that shows the existence of  goods like spindle whorls made out of items that are considered luxurious. It could be possible that it was used by someone rich.

Through the above points one cann assume that everybody in Harappan society could not have been equal.