The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c16.s1.58

c16.s1.58

There is another major linguistic problem, which deserves the attention of the archaeologist and the historians, who have up to now divorced themselves from the linguists. It is well-known that we have two broad divisions within the Indo-Aryan and very significantly, they have a geographic contiguity. One of the suggestions made by Grierson was that there were two waves of Aryan movement. In this connection, we have discussed the Indo-Iranian contacts of the Post-Harappan period: and the two important elements: Shahi-Tump, Jhukkar with affinities to Hissar III and the Londo. Piggot, while reviewing the article of Lal threw a very significant hint that either one or both might be Aryan. In that case another very interesting possible interpretation will be as follows :