The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c2.2

c2.2

In one respect only can the sincerest friend of India find cause for cavil, and let that one criticism be both uttered frankly and received with understanding. It is this : that at the present moment, publication is falling behind field-research. It would be easy to name able and productive excavations of which detailed reports are ominously overdue. The high standard set by the excavation-reports which have been published increases our regret for those which have not. It is most earnestly to be hoped that the next year or two will see an acceleration in this matter, always with the thought that unpublished excavation amounts to the destruction of evidence.