The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c4.2

c4.2

Being a first attempt I had to frame a system of terminology and the same had been continued in this edition. I have taken advantage of suggestions in reviews and opinions from my professional colleagues. The most important changes and additions are: (1) historical aspects of regionalism, (2) a detailed sequence of cultures in the Indus basin, (3) an attempt at correlation of tradition and archaeology. Naturally advantage was taken to bring the work upto date. The general response to some of the matters, which I thought myself, to be controversial has made me bolder still. I have added a few more controversial suggestions with the hope that it would provoke my colleagues to find more acceptable solutions. As Sir Mortimer remarked in his foreword to the second edition, Indian archaeology is developing at a fast rate and the writer is satisfied that this work attempts a theoretical background to the understanding of Indian archaeology. Since the first edition was published, the subsequent discoveries have confirmed most of the hypothesis made earlier. Finally, the illustrations have been inserted into the body of the text to make them more easily accessible and intelligible at the time of reading.