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The idea of break between the early periods was for some unknown reasons, was almost axiomatic in the Indian archaeological writing of the period.

— Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti

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We need not follow Spooner further in his exploration of the bylanes of Indology where anything goes.

When the Harappan civilisation experienced the Copper Age in the Indus valley, southern India experienced the Iron Age.

“In several Indian universities that I can think of – Delhi University, for instance -- students were positively discouraged to read those ‘nationalist’ writings”

Chakrabarti (1997b) believes such constraints have severely crippled the visualization of "protohistoric growth in inner India in its own terms, without any reference to the supposed multiple waves of people pouring in from the West" (35).

To join the main stream the historians could do a number of things: expound the ruling political philosophy of the day, develop the art of sycophancy to near-perfection or develop contacts with the elite in bureaucracy, army, politics and business. If one had already belonged to this elite by virtue of birth, so much the better.

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