A History of Agriculture in India v1.c16.4

v1.c16.4

‘The variety in styles and techniques among the products of the Baluchistan communities—the strongly individualized groups of pottery types’, states Piggott, ‘permits us to visualize the existence of little peasant states, each more or less self-contained, within a natural area such as the Zhob Valley, or those of the Kolwa and Maskai. The similarities we can detect between the localized cultures are the outcome of common necessities among farming peoples working a difficult land.’¹