The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c2.3

c2.3

Of the many fascinating problems upon which Dr. Subbarao touches in the following pages, two are (to me) outstanding. The first is : What happened after the end of the Indus civilization? What bearing did that great civilization has in fact upon the later life of the subcontinent? Here Shri A. Ghosh, Shri B. B. Lal and others have begun to point the way. When I was working in India there was still a gap of more than a thousand years between the Indus civilization (before 1,500 B.C.) and the Gangetic cities of the protohistoric age. To-day that gap has been halved but not securely closed. It may be that the active co-operation of Pakistan is required to close it finally; nevertheless, without that co-operation the advance in knowledge has been dramatically successful. May it continue.