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| name = Bara
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| settlement_type = Village and an archeological site
| image_skyline = Bara,Punjab.jpg
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| image_caption = View of archeological site Bara
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Punjab, India
| coordinates = {{coord|30.9167|N|76.5208|E|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type = Country
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| subdivision_type1 = [[States and Territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Punjab, India|Punjab]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Rupnagar district|Rupnagar]]
| established_title =  Established
| established_date = 19th Century (2000 BCE)
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| governing_body = Panchayat
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| population_total = 1500
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| demographics_type1 = Languages
| demographics1_title1 = Official
| demographics1_info1 = [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]]
| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| utc_offset1 = +5:30
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| postal_code = 140108
| area_code_type = Telephone Code
| area_code = +91-1881
| registration_plate = PB 12 & PB 71
| blank1_name_sec1 = Nearest Cities
| blank1_info_sec1 = [[Rupnagar district|Rupnagar]], [[Chamkaur|Chamkaur Sahib]], [[Morinda, India|Morinda]]
| blank2_name_sec1 = [[Lok Sabha]] Constituency
| blank2_info_sec1 = [[Anandpur Sahib]] (Sl. Number : 49)
| blank3_name_sec1 = [[Vidhan Sabha]] Constituency
| blank3_info_sec1 = [[Chamkaur|Chamkaur Sahib]] (Sl. Number : 51)
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| blank1_info_sec2 = [[Climatic regions of India|Extreme hot in summers & extreme cold in winters]] <small>([[Köppen climate classification|Köppen]])</small>
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'''Bara''' is a village in [[Rupnagar district|Rupnagar]] District in [[Punjab (India)|Punjab]], [[India]]. The village has mainly two Jatt Sikh surnames Chakkal and Heer and lies on the Rupnagar-[[Morinda, India|Morinda]] Road at the left bank of a seasonal monsoon rivulet called [[Budki Nadi]], about four kilometers south-west of the city [[Ropar]] and {{Convert|40|km|abbr=on}} northeast of [[Chandigarh]] on [[National Highway 205 (India)]] (NH-205). <ref name="ref38zalux">{{Citation | title=Gleanings of Indian archaeology, history, and culture |author1=K.D. Bajpai |author2=Rasesh Jamindar |author3=P. K. Trivedi |author4=Ramanlal Nagarji Mehta | publisher=Publication Scheme, 2000 | isbn=978-81-86782-64-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0gNuAAAAMAAJ | quote=''... Bara lies on the left bank of a monsoon rivulet known as Budki Nadi and is four kilometers southwest of Rupar. It is more known for Bara culture than the Mature phase of Harappa culture ...''|year=2000 }}</ref> Bara is the site of significant archeological excavations connected with the [[Indus Valley civilization]].<ref name="ref14qefeh">{{Citation | title=Ancient Indian Social History: Some Interpretations | author=[[Romila Thapar]] | publisher=Orient Blackswan, 1978 | isbn=978-81-250-0808-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fK3VTUrWsD0C | quote=''... there appears to be a continuity of pre-Harappan cultures into the second millennium B.C. at sites in the Sutlej valley and the upper Saraswati (e.g. Bara and Siswal A) ...''| year=1978 }}</ref> It has some evidence of being home to a culture (sometimes called [[Bara culture|Baran Culture]]) that was a pre-Harappan strand of the Indus Valley Civilization.<ref name="ref14qefeh"/> Baran and Harappan cultures may have intertwined and coexisted in some places, such as [[Kotla Nihang Khan]], also in modern-day Punjab.<ref name="ref94logaf">{{Citation | title=Indian Archaeology in Retrospect: Prehistory, archaeology of South Asia |author1=Shadaksharappa Settar |author2=Ravi Korisettar | publisher=Indian Council of Historical Research, 2002 | isbn=978-81-7304-319-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iJzpAAAAMAAJ | quote=''... The mound at Kotla Nihang Khan is divided into two sectors: eastern and western. The eastern sector mainly has Urban Harappan pottery like the dish-on-stand, goblets with pointed base, shallow flat dish with flaring sides ... The western part has Urban Harappan elements mixed with Bara Ware from the lower levels. Sharma (1982: 141) thinks that ... initially, in Phase I, the Harappans occupied the eastern area, but with the advent of the Barans ...''|date=2002-01-01 }}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Kotla Nihang Khan]]
*[[Bara culture]] or Baran Culture
*[[Siswal]]
*[[Chamkaur|Chamkaur Sahib]]
*[[Chandigarh]] - [[Chandigarh capital region|Tri-city]]
*[[Kurali]]
*[[Mohali]]

==References==
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==Bibliography==
*[http://asi.nic.in/asi_exca_imp_punjab.asp Excavation sites in Punjab] Archaeological Survey of India

[[Category:Indus Valley civilisation sites]]
[[Category:Pre-Indus Valley civilisation sites]]
[[Category:Cities and towns in Rupnagar district]]
[[Category:Bara culture]]
[[Category:Archaeological sites in Punjab, India]]

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