The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c14.s1.t2.54

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All along the flanks of the Vindhyas, particularly in Bundelkhand and Baghelkhand, we have extensive surface collections of Neolithic stone tools. These are typologically indistinguishable from the Bellary-Raichur ones, studied in detail already. The collections of these from the British Museum are being studied by Dr. F. R. Allchin. Could this mean the expansion of the early agricultural communities into the main riverine tracts after their mastery of metallurgy, which enabled them to clear the jungles and drain the swamps? But it is significant to note that this event more or less precedes the expansion into, and the establishment of the people using the Painted Grey Ware, identified very reasonably by the Aryans by Shri B. B. Lal.