Early Indian Culture: An Evaluation of Historical Evolution

Indian Culture and its evolution is a topic of interest for all irrespective of differences in discipline. The basic knowledge of cultural evolution is essential to students of any discipline. Social formation along with cultural evolution in India is very important for any student learning any social science discipline. Hence the fundamental information about Ancient Society, Bronze Age, Vedic period, Medieval Indian society etc. are interesting to be learned.

This book deals primarily with these basic historic ideas for the students of history. This book comprises five chapters on various fundamental aspects of the evolution of Indian culture. Greatest care has been taken to make the presentation simple and systematic so that the students of history may find this work most reliable and authentic. I hope this book will be useful to the graduate students preparing history seriously as a subject. Suggestions for further improvement of this work will be accepted with gratitude.

The prehistoric period refers to the span of time before invention of writing system. It is a period of human existence before the availability of recorded history. History of the prehistoric period is reconstructed from archaeological evidences. Meanwhile proto-historic period is a transition period between prehistoric period and historic period. This culture happens just prior to beginning of recorded history…