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Parveen Talpur
پروین تالپور
Parveen Talpur
OccupationsAuthor, Archaeologist, Historian
SpouseSuleman Lakhani
ChildrenImran Suleman and Jehan Suleman
Parent(s)Zaib un Nissa and Mir Ghulam Husain Talpur
Websitehttps://parveentalpur.com/

Parveen Talpur (Urdu: پروین تالپور) is a Pakistani American author, archaeologist, and historian.[1] [2] [3] [4] Talpur researched on the Indus seals discovered from Mohenjo-daro, Harappa, and other archaeological sites scattered in Pakistan and India. [5][1] [2] These sites represent the urban phase of the Indus Civilization (2600-1900 BCE.)

Early life, education, and family

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Parveen Talpur spent her early years in her ancestral village in the Tharparkar district of lower Sindh. [2] The family moved to Karachi and Parveen earned her master's degree in history with an Archaeology major from Karachi University. She presented a research paper at the 1979 International Seminar on Mohenjo-daro held at the National Museum of Pakistan. In 1980, the Mohenjo-daro site was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [4] [3] [2]

Research in Archeology

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In 1979, Talpur worked with George F. Dales and his team on labeling and cataloguing Mohenjo-daro pottery. Dales was the Director of the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He was also the last archaeologist to excavate Mohenjo-daro. In 1991, she conducted research on the seals at the South Asia Program at Cornell University, New York.[6][2] [4]

Talpur researched on a small group of seals. These seals engraved with geometrical designs were labeled as the button seals. Most common designs were swastikas, gammadions, circles, stepped-cross motifs and squares within squares. Talpur was able to verify a 3x3 squares template from which most of the designs could be constructed. She refers to that template as her Principal Figure. Furthermore, she demonstrated that the Principal Figure was composed of 24 equal sized line segments and that each design emerged simply by rearranging the 24 segments. It was published in the Wisconsin Archaeological Reports 1994.[2] [7] [8] The results of her research were also published in 1995 by the Institute of Sindhology, University of Sindh.[9]

In 2006, Talpur published her collection of poems in a slim volume called "Footnotes", in which she responds to a few selected verses of great poets as her poetic thoughts to each verse.[10] Talpur also wrote a TV documentary "Heritage" about Hyderabad, Mohenjo Daro and its suburb's history in Sindh.[11] While researching at Cornell [6]she taught at Elmira College, New York and Binghamton University, New York. Her last teaching assignment was in 2007 at the Pakistan Studies Center, University of Sindh, Jamshoro.[12]

In 2014, Talpur published “Moen jo Daro: Metropolis of the Indus Civilization (2600-1900 BCE)”, which describes various aspects of the Mohenjo-daro site and her depiction of Indus seals. [13][14] [2] [15] 2017, Talpur published a book “Indus Seals (2600-1900 BCE) Beyond Geometry.” covering the iconography of the seals, [13][16] [2] [15] Her book "Talpur Rule in Sindh" was published in 2002 by Ferozsons, Lahore.[17] [18] Her essay "Islam through a mosaic of Cultures" was published in an anthology "Living our Religions: Hindu and Muslm South Asian American Women Narrate their Experiences[19]" (2009) [5][2][3]

Talpur is also a member of the Editorial Board of Kalachi Research Journal and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Grassroots, the research journal published by the Pakistan Study Centre at the University of Sindh.[12] Her archaeological reports have been published Sindh Salamat and in the Dawn. [5][3]

Talpur has campaigned for the preservation of the archaeological sites and the historical buildings through many of her feature articles and has also researched and scripted three documentaries on the subject, including ‘Heritage’ which was sponsored by the Hyderabad Development Authority (HDA) and made in two languages-English and Sindhi[11]. Since 2010 Talpur has been campaigning for the digital preservation of the architectural and artifactual remains of Mohenjo-daro by means of 3D laser technology. Her article is available about it is on the CyArk website.[20]

Publications and Media

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Books

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Video, audio and published articles/Interviews

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Reference

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  1. 1 2 LHI Circle (23 July 2021). A Journey to Mohenjo-daro | Documentary | LHI Circle. Retrieved 19 January 2025 – via YouTube.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Junejo, Zaffar (16 April 2023). ""Antiquity always fascinated me" | Footloose | thenews.com.pk". www.thenews.com.pk. Retrieved 28 July 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "HYDERABAD: Indus is the least understood civilisation: expert". DAWN.COM. 21 December 2006. Retrieved 27 July 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 Thank You, Mama Podcast (24 October 2023). Age is not an Excuse: Parveen Talpur on Personal Development; Determination; and the Fight for... Retrieved 28 July 2025 – via YouTube.
  5. 1 2 3 Parveen, Talpur (30 August 2025). "Moen Jo Daro and Beyond - The Lasting Influence of Sindhi Globalization". SANA Forum. Retrieved 30 August 2025. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= requires |archive-url= (help)
  6. 1 2 "Talpur Continues Her Research on Sindh, Pakistan". South Asia Program 1997 Spring Bulletin: 7.
  7. ↑ Kenoyer, Jonathan (1 January 1995). From Sumer to Meluhha: Contributions to the Archaeology of South and West Asia in Memory of George F. Dales, Jr. (Wisconsin Archaeological Reports,). Prehistory Pr. p. 346. ISBN 978-0964399327.
  8. ↑ LHI Circle (4 August 2021). Perspectives on the Indus Valley Civilization from Pakistan and India. Retrieved 12 August 2025 – via YouTube.
  9. ↑ Talpur, Parveen (1 January 1995). Evidence of geometry in Indus Valley civilization, 2500-1500 B.C: Principles of seal designs and signs. Sindh: Institute of Sindhology, University of Sindh. pp. 1–139. ISBN 978-9694050492.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  10. ↑ "Book Store". parveentalpur. 31 July 2019. Retrieved 28 July 2025.
  11. 1 2 isulemanify (16 March 2019). Heritage by Parveen Talpur. Retrieved 29 July 2025 – via YouTube.
  12. 1 2 "Editorial Advisory Board | Grassroots". sujo.usindh.edu.pk. Retrieved 28 July 2025.
  13. 1 2 "Harappa.com". Harappa.com.
  14. ↑ Talpur, Parveen (1 January 2014). Moen jo Daro: Metropolis of the Indus Civilization. BookBaby. pp. 1–178. ISBN 978-1631921643.
  15. 1 2 Khan, Webmaster: Omar. "Parveen Talpur | Harappa". www.harappa.com. Retrieved 13 August 2025.
  16. ↑ Talpur, Parveen (5 January 2017). Indus Seals (2600-1900 Bce) Beyond Geometry: A New Approach to Break an Old Code. BookBaby. pp. 1–242. ISBN 978-1483582054.
  17. ↑ Talpur Rule in Sindh. Lahore, Pakistan: Ferozsons. 2002. ISBN 978-969-0-01757-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  18. ↑ "Talpur rule in Sindh / Parveen Talpur | Catalogue | National Library of Australia". catalogue.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 13 August 2025.
  19. ↑ Living Our Religions. Lynne Rienner Publishers. 2008. p. 65.
  20. ↑ "CyArk". CyArk. Retrieved 28 July 2025.
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