ABSTRACT
Introduction The basic idea of this ehapter eame to me while reading some reeent works on the Indus Valley or Harappan civilisation (Kenoyer 1995, 1998; Shaffer 1992; Shaffer and Lichtenstein 1995; Possehl 1998). I was struck by some similarities between the Indus Valley civilisation, as eurrently understood, and Tibetan soeiety, and wondered whether these might point to signifieant historical linkages between these societies.
