The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c9.21

c9.21

Griffith Taylor, using a biological analogy expresses it in this way. "If there be a centre where evolution (whether of organic or inorganic type) is taking place......then, after a reasonable lapse of time, the various differentiated classes will be found to be ranged in zones......so that the most primitive is at the margins and the most advanced at the centre of series of zones. Thus the earliest class will have covered the greatest area in its migrations; but fossil evidence of this class will be found in the deepest stratum, under the later strata at the centre of evolution. This is the *zones and strata* concept, which is less clearly called the *Age and area* concept by certain biologists." This concept is very essential for an understanding of culture dynamics in India. Its application can be considered in two different contexts: one to the relation of India and Western Asia and secondly to the relations between the several regions within the country.