Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. The setting. 2. The Parasurama link. 3. The Harappan survivor. 4. Kothi the pivot. Bibliography. Index.

"Journalist, historian litterateur and folklorist, Dr. Kashyap maintains that all the known Harappan settlements are not dead mounds. Some flourish to this day, one being located at Nirmand, some 150 kilometers upstream from Ropar on the right bank of the Satluj in Punjab. Nirm and is one of nine settlements in the Upper Satluj Valley locally known as sthans or theris."