The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c17.s2.1

c17.s2.1

For the sake of convenience, we shall discuss this ware first, because of its implications on chronology. A ware with inverted firing resulting in black-and-red, black-and-tan and black-and-grey (probably due to the firing techniques and temperature ranges) has been found associated with the Harappan and the Grey Ware at Rupar, in the Bikaner region with the Grey ware, with the earliest levels of the Harappan at Lothal, and with Post-Harappan cultures at Rangpur, Amra and Lakhabawal, and with the Central Indian chalcolithic sites in Malwa (Navda Toli and Ujjain). The most significant discovery was at Ahar, where in phases Ia and IB it occurs without any other ware and in Ic with the black-on-red painted ware. Recently, Dr. Puri explored a number of sites of this culture in the Chambal and its tributaries in Rajasthan. This is very important in that it provides the evidence, for the first time, since this controversy started, of another independent cultural group within the Late Harappan and Post-Harappan cultures of India.