Discuss your ideas about the political and ruling system assumed by different people of the Harappan Culture.

Looking at the complexities of how the cities were built, uniformity in seals, bricks, weight and moreover looking at the overall townplanning. Scholars asks how can such things be achieved. Thus postulating the ideas of ruler.

Although archaeological evidences provides no immediate answers but scholars looking at the huge structures at Mohenjodaro has named it as ' Palace' but from here no spectacular artefacts were found. And there is a stone statue which was labelled as ' Priest King' This is because archaeologists were familiar with Mesopotamian history and its “priest-kings” and have found parallels in the Indus region. But the ritual practices of the Harappan civilisation are not well understood yet nor are there any means of knowing whether those who performed them also held political power. Thus the label ' Priest King' is also an issue.

Thus regarding political and ruling system various scholars have come out with various points. They are:

1. Harappan society had no rulers, and that everybody enjoyed equal status.

2. There was no single ruler but several, that Mohenjodaro had a separate ruler, Harappa another, and so forth.

3. There was a single state, given the similarity in artefacts, the evidence for planned settlements, the standardised ratio of brick size, and the establishment of settlements near sources of raw. This last theory is considered the most feasible. But disagreement still reamins among scholars.