The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c14.s1.3

c14.s1.3

During the last few years, important work carried out by Fairservis (Jr.),² and F. A. Khan³ in Pakistan and Casal in Afghanistan⁴ is helping us to get a somewhat clearer picture, and if these efforts are continued, the prospects are very encouraging indeed. The broad studies of Piggot,⁵ Wheeler,⁶ McCown,⁷ Gordon⁸ and Ross⁹ have laid the foundations for the survey attempted here. The Late Prof. Childe, in his *Prehistory of European Society*, faced with the problem of slightly divergent groups of cultures, which are associated with each other and with different types in each province, suggested the use of the term "cycle of cultures". The recent studies of Fairservis in the Baluchistan area show extensive contacts between the various divergent groups that are spread over the Indus basin and the Indo-Iranian border lands. Hence it is proposed to attempt a critical survey of the culture sequence, after dividing them into three culture cycles :