Around 2500 B.C. the Harappan Civilization sprung up around this river in Pakistan & nothwestern India
until 1300 A.D. (approximately 4,000 years) India had contact 
with... [DOC] [TLE] India - Facts for Now - Scholastic [PAR] The earliest Indian civilization grew up in the Indus Valley from 4000 to 2500 B.C.