Sunday 14 July 2013

Megaliths of India


That India is a treasure house of megaliths is not known to many. Although from Kashmir to Kerala and from Itanagar to Gandhinagar India is filled with primitive megaliths yet they have been denied recognition as a source of Indian prehistory perhaps owing to their tribal origin. - more at http://www.megalithindia.in/2011/08/little-about-megaliths.html

Fascinating website, I had no idea about them before.

An example story -  Raising a megalith without machinery - http://www.megalithindia.in/2011/08/little-about-megaliths.html


1 comment:

  1. Your references above are to work and research by my longtime friend Subashis Das (see Facebook). A book of his on megaliths is to be published soon--to which I have written an introduction which he tells me he has made into a chapter.

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