Parveen Talpur
| Parveen Talpur | |
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| Native name | پروین تالپور |
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| 💼 Occupation | |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Suleman Lakhani |
| 👶 Children | Imran Suleman and Jehan Suleman |
| 👴 👵 Parent(s) | Zaib un Nissa and Mir Ghulam Husain Talpur |
| 🌐 Website | https://parveentalpur.com/ |
Parveen Talpur (Urdu: پروین تالپور) is a Pakistani American author, archaeologist, and historian.[1] [2] [3] [4] Her archaeological reports have been published in the Dawn and Pakistan Times, the two English newspapers in Pakistan.[3] Talpur researched on the Indus seals discovered from Mohenjo-daro, Harappa, and other archaeological sites scattered in Pakistan and India.[1] [2]
Early life, education, and family
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 and Academic Career
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 and 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.[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] [5] [6] The results of her research were also published in 1995 by the Institute of Sindhology, University of Sindh.[7]
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.[8] [2] [9] In 2017, Talpur published a book “Indus Seals (2600-1900 BCE) Beyond Geometry.” covering the iconography of the seals,[10] [2] [9] Her book Talpur Rule in Sindh was published in 2002 by Ferozsons, Lahore.[11] [12] Talpur has published a significant number of feature articles and essays in the Pakistani and American newspapers, magazines and anthologies, such as Dawn, Star, Nation Today, Third World, Pakistan Times, Humsafar (official travel magazine of Pakistan International Airlines), The News International, and Press & Sun-Bulletin (New York).[2][3] [13] 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.[14] Talpur also wrote a TV documentary "Heritage" about Hyderabad, Mohenjo Daro and its suburb's history in Sindh.[15] While researching at Cornell 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.[16]
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.[17][16]
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[15]. 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.[18]
Publications and Media
Books
- Evidence of geometry in Indus Valley civilization, 2500-1500 B.C: Principles of seal designs and signs (Institute of Sindhology Publication)
- Moen jo Daro: Metropolis of the Indus Civilization
- Indus Seals (2600-1900 Bce) Beyond Geometry: A New Approach to Break an Old Code
- Obscure Women Obscure Stories: A Pakistani Trilogy
- Talpur Rule in Sindh
- Islam through a Mosaic of Cultures
- Footnotes
- Parveen Talpur
Video, audio and published articles/Interviews
- Panel discussion on Indus Civilization: LHI -Parveen, Vasant Shinde & Mini Menon, Perspectives on the Indus Valley Civilization from Pakistan and India
- Mohenjo Daro documentary. LHI- Mini Menon with Parveen, A Journey to Mohenjo-daro | Documentary | LHI Circle
- Talpur Rule interview to Sindhi Culture Foundation-Aruna Madnani, Talpur Chauyaris: Administered by four brothers | Doorway to Sindh | Season 3
- Parveen Introduction by Ruk Sindhi, Indus Civilization Scholar-Parveen Talpur
- Masterclass on Mohenjo Daro (trailer): Parveen LHI Mini Menon, A Masterclass on Mohenjo-daro with historian and archaeologist Parveen Talpur | Only on LHI Circle
- Parveen Talpur interview on Thank you, Mama podcast, Age is not an Excuse: Parveen Talpur on Personal Development; Determination; and the Fight for..
- Parveen Talpur interview on The News International, Antiquity always fascinated me
- Peepul Tree Stories, 28 December 2022, The intriguing tale of the ‘Seven Women’ of Mohenjodaro
- 3-D digital preservation of Mohenjo-daro on the CyArk website: Moen jo Daro - New Threats to Indus Valley Civilization
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 LHI Circle (2021-07-23). A Journey to Mohenjo-daro | Documentary | LHI Circle. Retrieved 2025-01-19 – via YouTube.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Junejo, Zaffar (April 16, 2023). ""Antiquity always fascinated me" | Footloose | thenews.com.pk". www.thenews.com.pk. Retrieved 2025-07-28.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "HYDERABAD: Indus is the least understood civilisation: expert". DAWN.COM. 2006-12-21. Retrieved 2025-07-27.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Thank You, Mama Podcast (2023-10-24). Age is not an Excuse: Parveen Talpur on Personal Development; Determination; and the Fight for... Retrieved 2025-07-28 – via YouTube.
- ↑ Kenoyer, Jonathan (1995-01-01). 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. Search this book on
- ↑ LHI Circle (2021-08-04). Perspectives on the Indus Valley Civilization from Pakistan and India. Retrieved 2025-08-12 – via YouTube.
- ↑ Talpur, Parveen (1995-01-01). 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.CS1 maint: Date and year (link) Search this book on
- ↑ Talpur, Parveen (2014-01-01). Moen jo Daro: Metropolis of the Indus Civilization. BookBaby. pp. 1–178. ISBN 978-1631921643. Search this book on
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Khan, Webmaster: Omar. "Parveen Talpur | Harappa". www.harappa.com. Retrieved 2025-08-13.
- ↑ Talpur, Parveen (January 5, 2017). Indus Seals (2600-1900 Bce) Beyond Geometry: A New Approach to Break an Old Code. BookBaby. pp. 1–242. ISBN 978-1483582054. Search this book on
- ↑ Talpur, Parveen (2002). Talpur Rule in Sindh. Goodreads. Ferozsons. ISBN 978-969-0-01757-4. Retrieved 2025-07-28. Search this book on
- ↑ "Talpur rule in Sindh / Parveen Talpur | Catalogue | National Library of Australia". catalogue.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2025-08-13.
- ↑ Talpur, Parveen (2022-12-29). "The intriguing tale of the 'Seven Women' of Mohenjodaro". PeepulTree. Retrieved 2025-08-12.
- ↑ "Book Store". parveentalpur. 2019-07-31. Retrieved 2025-07-28.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 isulemanify (2019-03-16). Heritage by Parveen Talpur. Retrieved 2025-07-29 – via YouTube.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Editorial Advisory Board | Grassroots". sujo.usindh.edu.pk. Retrieved 2025-07-28.
- ↑ "about us". www.krjsalbc.org.pk. Retrieved 2025-07-28.
- ↑ "CyArk". CyArk. Retrieved 2025-07-28.
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