The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c14.s1.t2.34

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Our knowledge of the Upper Indus basin, above the confluence of the five great rivers of the Punjab and the Ghaggar, is clearer. Commanding the main communications into the Subcontinent, and with a better rainfall, on account of its existence at the foot of the Himalayan chain, and drained by rivers fed by the ice fields, the Punjab continuously supported large scale agricultural communities. We do not yet know the exact authors of the destruction of the Indus civilization. Nor do we know much about the Cemetery-H people, who have been credited with this role, unless they be one of the large groups of Post-Harappan people who moved into the plains of the Indus. Leaving these gaps, which the spade alone can ultimately fill up, we go little east towards the Indo-Gangetic divide. The explorations of Shri Ghosh and the excavations of Dr. Y. D. Sharma¹ at Rupar and of Shri B. B. Lal at Hastinapur have opened a new chapter in Indian archaeology. We are well on the way to bridge this yawning gulf between the Harappan and the Early Historic cultures of India. The rough outlines are emerging and only the links will have to be forged.