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Ancient India - Bulletin of the Archaeological Survey of India January 1949

1949

Yet as the administration of the States ran independently of the Departments of the Government of India the Archaeological Department of India had no jurisdiction over the archaeology of the States. [...] With the disappearance of the Paramount Power the rulers of the States became quickly aware of their anachronistic position in the midst of the centripetal forces operating in free India and voluntarily co-operated with the processes of unification initiated by the Government of India. [...] They relate respectively to the two main gegraphical divisions of the sub-continent: on the one hand to the great plains of the North between the Vindhyas and the Himalayas and on the other to the plateau and the coastal strips of the South. [...] In other words more information was needed on the one hand as to the date and circumstances of the end of the Indus civilization and on the other hand as to the cultural conditions of North-west India in the time of the Persian aggression at the end of the sixth century B. C. For the latter purpose the oldest of the three successive sites of Taxila—the scalled Bhir Mound— provided an obvious [...] The results of his previous expeditions having shown the comparative paucity of 'early sites in the alluvial plains along the Indus he had undertaken in 1930-31 a thorough exploration of the hill-tracts of Kohistän Sehwdn and the southern portion of the Johi taluka as far as Päncli Wdhi in the north bringing to light a long chain of closely-situated settlements dating from the end of the third
anthropology archaeology
Pages
171
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120094
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Notes
1-3 unknown view
Archaeological Fieldwork in India : Planning Ahead
4-11 R.E.M. Wheeler view
Further Exploration in Sind : 1938
12-viii Krishna Deva, Donald McCown view
Sassanian Motifs on Painted Pottery from North-West India
31-34 Stuart Piggott view
Megalithic Types of South India
35-45 V.D. Krishnaswami view
Ten Years of Indian Epigraphy (1937-46)
46-61 B. Chhabra, N. Rao, M. Husain view
Sisupalgarh 1948 : An Early Historical Fort in Eastern India
62-105 B.B. Lal view
Technical Section 5. Vegetation on Monuments
106-113 K.R. Srinivasan view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view

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