e) "Early Indians lacked historical sense". Discuss. long type question
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e ancient Indians left innumerable material remains The stone temples in south India and the brick monasteries in eastern India still stand to remind us ‘of the great building activities of the past But the major part of these remains lies buried in the mounds scattered all over the country. Only a few have been exposed to give us some knowledge of the life of the ancient people.
Since most sites have been dug vertically they provide a good chronological sequence of material culture. Horizontal diggings, being very expensive, are very few in number, with the result that excavations do not give us a full and complete picture of material life in many phases of ancient Indian history
Even in those mounds which have been excavated the ancient remains have been preserved in varying proportions. In the dry climate of western Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and north-western India antiquities are found in a better state of preservation, but in the moist and humid climate of the middle Gangetic basin and in the deltaic regions even iron implements suffer corrosion and mud structures become difficult to detect. It is only in the phase of burnt brick structures or stone structures that impressive and large-scale, remains are found in moist and alluvial areas Excavations have brought to light the cities which the people established around 2500 B.C. in north-western India,
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According to their opinion, ancient India's “proper history” is missing in literature and therefore people of that time did not had sense of history writing. All we get is religious texts or glorified rulers of the era but not proper chronological data of events and history