The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c14.s1.t2.22

c14.s1.t2.22

Wheeler, Piggot and Childe, built up an elaborate hypothesis, based on the excavations conducted by Wheeler, at Harappa in 1946. He attributed the destruction to the authors of the Cemetery-H and adduced literary evidence to support the fact that the Rigvedic Aryans destroyed these cities. The first part of his contention that the Cemetery-H people destroyed Harappa is correct. But his more controversial identification of Cemetery-H folk with the Aryans cannot be accepted at the present stage of our knowledge since their pottery has not been identified with certainty from the rest of the Indus basin.