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India, along with the rest of India, has been the meeting-ground of many races and many cultures. [sic] The stratigraphical method of the geologist, the paleontological method of the fossil-collector, the method of the Ethnographist, and the typological method, have all contributed to the construction of the pre-history of man, and when applied to India have brought to light a whole vista of facts necessitating a readjustment in the old-world theories and a revaluation and newer synthesis of the various points of view that have been advanced from time to time on the discovery of isolated facts. Thus, while the scholars of a former generation postulated the migration of peoples into India from the North beyond the Himalayas and would not think of any other,