Most Ancient Aryan Society

Author(s): Ram Chandra Jain
Publisher: Institute of Bharatalogical Research Sriganganagar Rajasthan

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9. FLORA, FAUNA AND ANCILLARY TESTS
A pleistocene Sea, a part of the Tethys Sea which divided the ancient world in North and South, covered the
Sindhu, Saraswati and Ganjetic trough at the Geological Formations of Saraswati- foot of the Himalayan range. This sea was Ganjetic Plains.
me gradually filled up by the waste of the high lands and the alluvium brought down by the Himalayan rivers and two large rivers of central Bhārata, viz, Sone and the Chambal. Most of the Ganjetic trough became firm and dry enough to be habitable for man only 5000-7000 years ago! As and when the marine sedimentary deposits raised land in this Seabed ; the people living on the shores, mostly of the South and the East, occupied it and raised new settlements. In that hoary past ; this region was populated by the ancestors of the Austroloids ; the Mediterraneans coming later in contact.
These people were hardy, enterprising, imaginative, progressive and highly cultured. The Saraswati-Ganjetic plains link the Himalayan system with the Deccan as evidenced by valuable geological records burried beneath the mantle of clay and sand. It has no mineral resources but its agricultural wealth and fresh under-ground water stored in the more porous and coarser strata, accessible by ordinary wells and tube-wells, are the highest economic asset of Bhārata. Though devoid of records other than those of the yesterday of geological time, these alluvial plains are the stage of the main drama of Bhāratīya history since Aryan occupation and before.
The Saraswati-Ganjetic plains were the main centres of the food producing economy of Bhārata. Neolithic agricultural system was developed on the deltas of large rivers of Nile,