- In the field of religion, the worship of “Pashupathi Shiva” as in his actual form as well in the representative form as Linga, the female deity interpreted as Mother Goddess, sacred tree, animals, serpent, religious symbols, etc., which were prevalent in the Harappan religion , were adopted in later Hinduism.
- Some of the motifs, designs, shapes and forms found in the pottery and terracotta objects at Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa find their counterpart in the objects discovered in Punjab and the North-West belonging to the early centuries before the Christian era.
- In the field of science and technology, the Harappan civilization greatly contributed to the similar future developments. Harappan civilization was the womb of mathematics. The numerical and decimal system was evolved which helped in the development of “Vedic Mathematics”.
- The Harappan way of making baked pottery, bricks, beads, jewellery, and textiles etc. was adopted in the later civilization.
- The most remarkable achievement of the Harappans was the cultivation of cotton. Even Egypt did not produce it until several centuries after it was grown in the Indus Valley.
- The foundation of India’s brisk maritime trade with Central and West Asia was also laid by the Harappan people.
Thus, the Harappan civilization remained a source of the “civilization process” and many of its features were amalgamated in the warp and weft of later Indian civilization.