The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c14.s1.t2.40

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Finally, with the excavations at Rupar and Hastinapur, the gap (which is dramatically called the "Dark Period") is closing up. Ghosh well summed up the position of Grey Ware-Harappa relations when he said: "While it is admittedly premature to hold that the latter people (Grey Ware folk) were no other but the Aryans, it is doubly premature to say that the Aryans had nothing to do with the disappearance of the Harappans. Even if that be the future consensus, the possibility will remain that the descendants of the Harappans, after the end of their glorious days, lived somewhere in India, still holding to their culture, if in a modified form, to contribute its traits to the pattern of Indian culture, either directly or through the Aryans or some other agency. Otherwise, the existence of Harappan elements in Indian culture will remain unexplained".⁴