The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c10.18

c10.18

In this feature, India stands midway between Europe on the one hand, and Africa and Australia and Oceania on the other. In Europe, there were continuous cultural impacts from Western Asia and the Mediterranean region. Besides, "....every dominant civilization imposed its cultural pattern on all people within its orbit", and as pointed out by Haimendorf,⁴ "the geographic conditions did not favour isolation of refuge areas". In Africa, on the other hand, the two wide deserts of Sahara and Kalahari, on either side of the huge Equatorial forest, have