The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c10.63

c10.63

It may be stated at once that these cultural and linguistic zones have very often defied and survived political disturbances and events. As Spate has shown, there has been tendency throughout Indian history for political boundaries to coincide with nuclear regions, yet, this was not the case always, as the map prepared by Day shows. Look at the political fragmentation of the Krishna-Godavari basins ! (Fig. 7). But whenever they have coincided in the history of these zones, we see a fine flowering and consolidation of the regional cultural forces. For example, under the aegis of the Eastern Chalukyan Dynasty that ruled a major part of the Andhra for four centuries, the latent geographic forces have helped the assertion of its individuality. This manifested itself in the appearance of the Telugu language in the records of the 8th centruy, and by the 11th century, it assumed the status of a literature. This consolidated the cultural homogeneity of Andhra.