Ethnicity and Religious Heritage

Author(s): T U Mehta
Publisher: T U Mehta

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Pre-Historical Beginning of Culture in India
Aryan Periods. This will be clear from the following contribution made by them:
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(1) They introduced Pottery which was unknown to their predecessor Negritos.
(2) In the field of cultivation, they are believed to have introduced digging stick cultivation and terraco. (3) Some religious rituals and use of vermilion marks, idea of transmigration which now forms the ideological basis of Indian culture owe much to Austric culture.
(4) Many of the Myths and legends and Avatāras including zoomorphic deties such as Ganesh, Nagas, tortoise which have found favour in Hindu mythology owe their origin to Austric culture. (5) Aryan species owe much to Austric phonetics (6) And last, but not the least the highly developed Indus Valley culture and civilization owes much to Austric culture because Proto-Australoids formed one of the four main races which contributed to that
culture.