Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c4.s20.2

c4.s20.2

For, firstly, their authors were not illiterate, as amply demonstrated by their seals, and it is not their fault if we cannot decipher their script. Secondly, this civilization is one of the sources of the later-day Brahmanism and Hinduism. In a twofold way, thus, Indus Civilization is protohistoric for us. By this definition proto-history in India would also comprise the various Chalcolithic cultures which were contemporary with and very often immediate successors of the Indus Civilization. Their exact geographical scope and time range will be pointed out later.