The Government System
It is still unclear to this day how the Indus Valley`s government system was; numerous historians have studied this and found no answer. Although we are not clear of how they ran their government what we do know is that in some places like Harappa, there are remains of palace-like buildings which historians believe to indicate that there were some kind of king or high authority who ruled during the time period. Another thing we know about the government is that they were sophisticated and very advanced in technology and very municipal. Some ancient seals excavated by architects and historians are said to be of importance to the government system; they may have served as official seals for the high rulers or advisers. Although this civilization already had a writing system, historians today are unable to decipher them. With no evidence of any governmental tactics there still is however a mysterious 17.5 cm tall sculpture of a male found in Mohenjo-Daro in a building found with unusually ornamental brickwork and wall-niche, archeologists are not certain whether it was a priest or a king. Unable to determine what it is the archeologists decided to name it the "Priest-King".
Social Classes
Like everywhere in the world the Indus Valley Civilization too had classes. They consist of 5 classes which were 1. Gods and Goddesses, 2. Priests and Scholars, 3. The Rajas and their Noblemen, 4. Craftsmen, Merchants, Farmers and Land Owners and finally 5. Servants, Workers and Wage Earners. A person was defined as Upper class if they were either priests, scholars, monarchs, soliders or wealthy of course; Middle class if they were farmers, tradesmen and merchants and lastly Lower class if they were maids, servants or menial workers. These social classes were called Varnas; if you were born into one class or varna you would have to marry in it, you couldn't marry into a higher class than yourself. Most of the time or all of the time social classes are based on wealth and knowledge, the currency of the Indus citizens are unknown but many historians believe that the seals are somehow a currency. Other historians believe that there was perhaps no currency at all but trading with other civilizations such as the Mesopotamia.
Concept of Time
Because of the lack of artifacts and resources, historians have not been able to uncover whether or not the history of the Indus population was recorded. They have found numerous seals with carved letters and doodles but were never sure if that was documentation of what happened back then. According to the historians who studied the Indus Valley Civilization there are no written records recorded by priests or monarchs during this time period which turns out to be a major set back. With historians being unable to decipher the seals we will never know for sure, but historians today are hoping that the meaning of these significant writings will be one day introduced into the world.