The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c9.12

c9.12

This study postulates certain agreed definitions of terms like 'Culture', which have been used here, and the function of some of the objects such as pottery, the main raw material of the archaeologist. Similar problems of correlations and allied difficulties were faced in the Seminars held recently in America.¹ The problems of correlation on a continental basis in North America were studied by a Seminar under the auspices of the American Prehistoric Society.² In a country of the size and environmental diversity of the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent, it is impossible to postulate a uniform development of culture in *time and space*. The recognition of this fundamental principle—the geographic and ecological basis of Indian history and culture—will help us to understand the true significance of the physical and cultural diversity of the country based on deeper social, economic and technological differences, which are the results of a slow penetration of higher cultures in different parts and at different periods.