The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c14.s1.t4.28

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This pottery gradually makes its appearance in the Malwa plateau and even in Kathiawad peninsula with the local painted pottery cultures. But in Malwa, it becomes dominant in the next phase, contemporary with the N.B.P. It is very interesting to note the influence of Grey ware on other ceramic forms. Apart from the technique of decoration and surface treatment, some of the basic forms (especially utilitarian types like shallow dishes with incurved sides and beaked or beaded rims, rimless bowls, etc.) commonly occur in the Grey wares, N.B.P., Gangetic valley black wares and even the Black-and-Red wares. The further development of the forms and techniques also add to the story. While the Grey wares carry their technical tradition into the N.B.P., the technique of inverted firing continues in Central India and Maharashtra and develops into the highly specialized funerary forms of the megaliths (Fig. 42). What about the position of metals?