Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c14.46

c14.46

In the past, these ‘forts’ of the *dasyas* and the *dāsus* were considered to be either mythological or at best the primitive earthworks and palisades of the supposed aborigines of Northern India at the time of the Aryan conquest. But now, as Wheeler has said, ‘the recent excavation of Harappā may be thought to have changed the picture. Here we have a highly-evolved civilization of essentially non-Aryan type, now known to have employed massive fortifications, and known also to have dominated the river-system of north-western India at a time not distant from the likely period of the earlier Aryan invasions of that region ... On circumstantial evidence, Indra stands accused.’