Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c7.134

c7.134

What was the immediate sequel to the Indus Civilization? North Indian history first assumes definition in the time of the Buddha, about 500 B.C. If we infer provisionally that in the central Indus region the Civilization ended within a century or so of 1500 B.C., there remain a thousand years with no surer written content than that provided by the great Indian epics, which have reached us as a romantic amalgam of many ages. Happily, however, Indian archaeologists have recently been at work upon this Dark Age both in the north and in the west, and dawn is on the horizon.