List the items of food available to people in Harappan cities. Identify the groups who would have provided these.

The Harappan people were vegetarian as well as non-vegetarian. They used to have various types of food like grains, plant products, milk products, flesh, etc.

The food items available in Harappan cities were –

(a) A variety of plant products,

(b) Animal products like meat, fish, and eggs,

(c) Grains of various types like Wheat, barley, rice, millets, pulses, chick pea, & sesame

(d) Milk products like curd, ghee, and perhaps honey.

In Harappan cities or civilization, the food providers were divided into three groups –

a) Food gatherers – They were those who take products from plants

b) Hunter groups – Those who provide food like flesh and fish

c) Agricultural group – Those who provide eatables like Wheat, Maize, Millet, Pulses, Rice etc