Consider the following statements regarding the standard settlement layouts of the Indus Valley Civilisation:
1. The western part of the city was typically smaller but built on a raised platform, archaeologically designated as the Citadel.
2. The eastern part was significantly larger and lower, acting as the residential Lower Town where common citizens lived and worked.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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The standard bipartite Harappan town layout featured a higher, fortified citadel on the west containing public architecture (like baths or assembly halls) for administrative elites, and a sprawling unfortified or separately fortified lower town on the east mapping dense grids of standard residential blocks.

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