The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c12.s3.3

c12.s3.3

Till 1944, the whole of the Deccan peninsula remained a vague cross-word puzzle. But Sir Mortimer Wheeler has left behind a fine working system of chronology based on the impact of Roman trade and the consequent deposition of Roman coins and coin hoards of known date, and other antiquities. Now the recent work in India has, more or less succeeded in disentangling a fairly satisfactory system of early historic and proto-historic chronology. It is not possible to go into the details of chronologies of individual regions, but it is proposed to discuss a few crucial types of pottery, which serve as definite diagnostic traits, and of Brahmagiri, on account of its importance to South Indian archaeology.