A Comprehensive History of India: Prehistory of India

In this volume one part one, the prehistoric phase forms the longest period in human history cov­ering a few millennia whereas the knowledge of writing which could be used for the reconstruction of history, was acquired by man only five thousand years ago. The development of human culture can be properly understood only by studying the prehistoric past. The antiquity of man now goes back to 3.6 million years, and since then man has been progressing in the face of all odds. Man the hunted be...