the Archaeological Survey, which the British Viceroy, Lord Cur- zon, had reformed and enlarged in 1901.
Profiting from the digs at Mohenjo- Daro and Harappa, A. L. Basham's The Wonder That Was India: A Sur-vey of the Culture of the Indian Sub-continent Before the Coming of the Muslims (Grove, paper, 1954; Taplinger, cloth, 1968) begins the story 2,500 years before Christ. At that time the once-fertile Indus Val- ley in the northwest (today a part of Pakistan) already supported an ad- vanced pre-Aryan...