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Delineate and account for the regional characteristics the Neolithic Period in India.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Pre-history and Proto-history

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The Indian Neolithic was never a single, pan-subcontinental horizon that arrived and unfolded uniformly — it was a mosaic of regionally distinct food-producing cultures, separated from one another by centuries in date, by the specific plants and animals domesticated, by tool typology, and by house form and burial practice. V. Gordon Childe's idea of a…

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  • The Classificatory Frameworks: Reading Regional Diversity
  • Kashmir: An Isolated Pit-Dwelling Tradition
  • The Deccan and South India: A Cattle-Keeping Neolithic
  • Eastern and North-Eastern India: A Rice-Growing, Cord-Marked Complex
  • The Ganga Valley and the Vindhyas: The Earliest Rice Farmers
  • The Trans-Indus Fringe: A Different Trajectory Altogether
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