The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c14.s1.t2.14

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We are as much ignorant about the origin of the Harappa, as about its final extinction. But two remarkable facts stand clear: the advent of a new people and the desiccation of the Rajputana desert. The later half of the II Millennium B.C. was a period of turbulent movements of peoples, destruction and the appearance of new languages all over Western Asia. Right from the Anatolian plains of Turkey, this is due to the advent of Indo-Europeans and India has not Fig. 26. (After Piggott)