History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c39.s1.8

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“The Indus civilization was conceived locally in the court- yard of one or more of the Pre-Harappan cultures - Baluchistan was not only a nuclear zone of several Pre-Harappan Cultures (Amri, Kot Diji, Sothi), it also served as a barrier to mass infiltration of the West Asian cultures. Some feeble alien waves did come but soon got assimilated” (Asthana, 1985). A chapter in Asthana’s book is appropriately titled ‘The Collapse of the Irano-Centric View’.