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Ep. 112: Early Indians

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Role of the Early Indians in the Indian Subcontinent

The Harapans were a mixture of the first Indians and West Asian agriculturalists who moved in here around 9,000 years ago. They catalyzed the agricultural transition across the entire region and then laid the foundation for modern India. The Trivancur oils would in a sense be descendants of the Harapans. We can't today guess if you assume that the temples were not the authority structures that got all these things together, then who were it? It's a surprising thing.

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