Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.27

c12.27

These newcomers, who coincide so suspiciously with the end of the Harappā civilization, came to India from the west. To understand them and to assess the probable date of their arrival we must turn to the countries west of India, with which the Harappā traders had contacts. Here again the detailed evidence will be reviewed at a later stage, when we discuss the relations of the Harappā kingdom with foreign powers, but for the present we may look to Mesopotamia for evidence of connexions between the Indian civilization, prehistoric by reason of its undeciphered script, and those of the Tigris and Euphrates, where some form of written record enables us to regard them as historic from a date not long after 3000 B.C.