Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c4.s22.1

c4.s22.1

Then CHARLES LYELL (1797-1875) propounded 17 the theory that rocks of a similar nature were developed or laid out in an identical way all over the earth. This is called the theory of uniformitarianism. The theory did not find a ready response or acceptance among all. Its recognition was also slow in an intellectual and social world steeped in Biblical theory of the Deluge.