Specifically, I’m looking for books that are not necessarily aimed at scholars, but would be well received by academics.
There’s a free book written in Hindi on Indus Valley civilization ( literally the title of the book in Hindi ) that I have been meaning to finish. I have read some chapters. But it’s on hold because I am binging PG Wodehouse for the umpteenth time again. So if you are proficient in the language I d wholeheartedly recommend it. It does the job of stating facts correctly ( and it’s pretty recent edition ) but I wouldn’t read too much into some of the interpretation if I were you. It also gives the list of references at the end. They date anywhere from 1930-1980s.
Damn, thanks though! That whole Indus Valley spoke proto-Sanskrit is pretty out of fashion lately, correct?