The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c9.20

c9.20

The other important phenomenon which has been greatly neglected in this country is an attempt at an objective analysis of the familiar slogan of 'unity in diversity'. This will be discussed at greater length in the next Chapter. But it is not out of place here to state certain problems created by physiography, long distances, and relative isolation of the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent from the rest of Eurasia. Firstly, on account of our location of the margin of the Eurasian mainland, with a close proximity and yet sufficiently powerful barrier, the dynamic changes in the Western Asian cradle of civilization have left their deep imprint on the origin and development of cultures in India. The slow penetration further east and south into the rest of the sub-continent has created a complex problem of interpretation and it is not out of place to explain a theoretical idea of Geography, called the "Zones and strata concept", which has a great validity to us.