Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c9.48

c9.48

It would, of course, produce a tidy geographical solution of the problem if we could with any confidence derive the southern megaliths, or at any rate the idea embodied in them, from the megaliths of Orissa, Chotā Nāgpur and north-eastern India. With C. von Fürer-Haimendorf, however, I see no ready help in that direction.⁸⁴ In spite of rare and incomplete resemblances, I prefer to return to the initial premise of this chapter and to accept the differences manifest in the north-eastern series as too numerous and extensive to justify affiliation. The structural problem—and that alone—of the south Indian megalith culture seems to me at the present time insoluble save by extravagant guesswork.