The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c10.83

c10.83

cultural communities with or without the plough. Depending on the nature of the contact and the number of immigrants, the constitution of the local population should have differed. Recent studies in Indian archacology clearly demonstrate the technological and the consequent social and economic differences within the first agricultural settlers in each of the regions of India. This "historically derived sub-cultural continuum" has resulted from a series of events and facts, and these tended to maintain, in time and space, a special set of patterns and values.¹ Hence it will be very profitable to look at the material culture and technology of these first farmers. A very detailed discussion on the sequence of cultures in each of these regions is given in the main body of the text. But it will not be improper to anticipate and give, in brief, a short account to indicate the physical or the material basis of the personality of the culture regions in India.