The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c12.s1.1

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We have already described the relation of India, to Western Asia, as that of "a periphery of the nuclear Near East".⁴ The recent work of Fairservis in Baluchistan, throws a new light on this problem. Here, we have a sequence beginning with a Pre-pottery Neolithic Stage, and as pointed out by Childe,⁵ this stage is represented at Kili Ghul Mohammed in Baluchistan. But the radio-carbon age of the last-named site is not more than 3500 B.C. Who can now dispute the validity of the geographic contention? We shall discuss the other C-14 dates in our section on Proto-history. In view of the plausible relations revealed between the cultures of the Indus basin and the Indo-Iranian border lands, we can group the whole group of Pre-Harappan cultures beginning with the Neolithic stage as the first cycle of cultures.