Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c5.s2: Antiquarianism Absent

c5.s2.1

All this should have goaded the people in India to take interest in antiquities. But this was never done. The Hindu mind was turned towards the metaphysical aspect of these questions and later—when images had come into existence—it was considered a sin to worship or even preserve an image which was (somehow) broken. Thus antiquarianism and true historiography never developed in India. There was not even simple curiosity to know the past.