Did India have a 'dark age'? Painted Grey Ware from Bareilly holds the key to the question

[@aditimukherjee6916]

Thank you Ma'm..Better seeing such videos from an Archeologist than Bollywood videos🙏🙏

[@dinotooth]

I absolutely love your passion for the subject. Enjoyed the video. The only minor nitpick for me was the audio. Mics are not very expensive nowadays, and its simply plug and play.

[@KamalKamal-d4e]

Audio quality may be improved

[@pssaggu]

Fantastic series, please keep going!

[@xxabbu1]

Thank you for this super informative exposition. Please do more of these!

[@SiddharthaJoshiFilms]

Absolutely fascinating! Watch videos like this make me feel I was an archaeologist and making these amazing dsicoveries :)

[@bonaku20]

Thanks for the video, but we can easily improve the value of video by adding graphics and pictures and slides. When ever we make a videos, don't target just few thousand Indians, but global audience.

[@github921]

Very interesting topic. Please bring more such content. I have two suggestions: when you mention towns/cities, please also mention which modern state they are in. Second, if you could show an actual kiln and maybe how a potter works on it, the technical aspects can become clearer to a layman such as I. Thanks a lot for your work.

[@_M_D_M_]

Our whole family watches such informative videos every morning. Please keep the sound quality in mind. It becomes difficult to understand.

[@unvarnishedraw6583]

Excellent topics. Please make more Indian subco archeologiy programs. Thanks

[@alirg5110]

Even living in Bareilly, I don't know much about that except a few things. Thanks @Dasia

[@supremegodemperordonaldtru3563]

Recent studies in Anuradhapura Sri Lanka has also found PGW. This time period is so fascinating and mysterious!

[@markaxworthy2508]

Thanks. A very clear exposition.

[@markaxworthy2508]

Apart from colour, in terms of functionality, what difference did oxygen/temperature make to the vessels? Did a black pot have different practical characteristics from a grey pot, or was it purely a matter aesthetics?

[@vikasdm339]

Amazing content…!!! The only constructive feedback, if you wish to consider, is not to use words repetitively. For eg, the word “particular “ was used too many times and was a tad distracting from the excellent content.

[@PS-kj9jk]

Can you guys make a descriptive video on Sintastha and Andronovo Cultures and it's impact on Indian Subcontinent ?

[@dr.vijayanraju3656]

The enigma of " 🐴 "

[@Thorsssssss]

no @@dr.vijayanraju3656

[@jugchats]

There is too much information for a general audience. The topic is fascinating but I suggest adding a small intro and summary section and adding time markers in the video. It will help make sense of the highly detailed information

[@bobbylahiri2012]

Always look forward to these videos .... we really need such content

[@vijaykasi8124]

What does the chemical analysis of the PGW reveal about the source of the clay, mostly with respect to the iron content? Geology of the river flood plains may hold some key about the amount of iron found in these wares.

[@Iight-bot]

She says it was found over a large region, and not just along rivers

[@stdew07]

*Ma'am please improve the audio quality of your videos*

[@lovesharmajammu]

Very good presentation. Please carry on. Do see if the audio can be improved

[@Advaitvaadi]

Great informative video

[@edytha2090]

Sound quality bad

[@rajshekhar1147]

Very interesting. Wish u all the best in personal life n professional line for finding ancient past with scientific proofs.

[@bindurao3463]

Please make more such presentations

[@PushkarNimkar-u3j]

@ThePrint, she deserves her own hashtag! It didn't sound like an opinion piece, haha

[@gopalaraodasari7743]

How much of such pottery exists in South of India and if they differ in any manner with that of painted grey pottery.

[@AshokGupta-oq6hs]

Madam,the concept of dark age is unique to Europe. It is the period between Greek-Roman empires and Renaissance period of Europe.

[@heirapparent3433]

Do these findings potentially push back the date of the second urbanization of north india?

[@sujoymukherjee1930]

Love your presentations

[@pssaggu]

Would you be so kind to do a video on Copper Hoard culture in the Gangetic plains...

[@007skumarajay]

Our ancestors , havyaka Brahmin. They had migrated from Ahichatra near Bareli 500 ce. To coastal Karnataka .

[@hawkingdawking4572]

They are all Iranian pastoralists mixed with locals.

[@shyamshet2171]

Iran was also sanaatan long back, as we found sanskrit in mittani excavation

[@hawkingdawking4572]

@@shyamshet2171 Sanathana Dharma was a copied term from a Budhist text by the foreigner Annie Besant in the 1900s. There was no Hinduism or Santhana Dharma before the 19th century.

[@alani3992]

​ @hawkingdawking4572 Lots of Brahmins in Maharashtra look like Iranians.

[@shyamshet2171]

@@hawkingdawking4572 in mittani tablets in Syria sanskrit rig vedic writings were found and this is the fact🙏 don't assume things to fit something

[@supreethvasisht2451]

It is like at a distant future, we are iphone culture, our parents are wired telephone culture... sort of makes sense! Nice explanation though!

[@vikashsharma-eq2eq]

The information is very interesting but the video could had been a lot shorter

[@dominicdmello7531]

Stone age in India 1.5 mil years ago? Current hypothesis is out of Africa movement was between 65 to 85 thousand years ago. You mean humans were in India prior to that?

[@mountolympus1098]

I like there kind of videos

[@mpnikhil]

6:55 M.K. Dhavalikar (ढवळीकर) and not Dhawalkar (धवलकर). This is pretty shabby for an Indian archaeologist.

[@liberumoratio1704]

5:08 invasions just migration. I think only one scholar hypothized about invasion but it was quickly debunked for the more apprent migration. IE no indication of battles, war artifacts but plenty of migration, tech and seed transfer.

[@fullaranag]

Migration can be both ways, not necessarily from west to east. We should wait for more excavation to be completed before coming to any conclusion

[@svanimation8969]

​@@fullaranagmigration happened both ways already

[@mpnikhil]

Where is the evidence for any migration dude?

[@svanimation8969]

@@mpnikhil ur DNa is enough proof ! 😅

[@liberumoratio1704]

@@mpnikhil technology, seed, live stock, garments, and of course symbols / totems.

[@gangadharhiremath7306]

If you think that you are "rewriting" Indian History,sorry madam,you are not.History is not rewritten by whipping up lather of words or soap bubbles of ideas.We need rock hard facts.

[@curiousthor]

And why the obsession with indo gangetic history??? Visit Tamilnadu archeology and discuss. history is older than ashoka here....

[@curiousthor]

​@user-yt2nm3wm5i listen to amarnath ramakrishna to learn...

[@karthiksekar3777]

They are trying to project India as Hindia... No wonder the dravidians are neglected. But if they go deeper into their own culture they cannot dismiss the influence of dravidians in them. But they won't accept that. They know to start and where to stop. They won't let their current position to be shaken...

[@curiousthor]

​@@karthiksekar3777 Do read keeladi excavation, amarnath ramakrishna. Even Indus script, Tamil script confluence is documented with evidence.

[@Agnostic7773]

@@curiousthor INDUS>BRAHMI>TAMIL BRAHMI

[@damyantimanghnani1491]

Why such poor audio?

[@bindurao3463]

Good job

[@mikedesi5513]

Vedic people were fish eating Brahmins who composed vedas and lived along saraswati rivers and migrated east when river dried up

[@hawkingdawking4572]

They are cow meat too.

[@hawkingdawking4572]

There is no evidence for a river called Saraswati.

[@Thorsssssss]

you always find a bhangi who hates brahmins and a kati lulli ka2ua spreading lies, in these comment section

[@kumarashura6621]

Interesting

[@bpmalanadu7136]

Most of the archaeological finding in India were accidental. Indian archaeologist should use modern techniques including satellites to scan entire India to find out any ancient remnants that are lying beneath the earth many meters down. Due to the continuous civilisations and many wars fought through out the history, caused the destructions of many cultures and their traces. It is disappointing to see many precious sites are left to rot, like in Bhimbetka. They all should be protected by building enclosures to protect from the elements of nature. By charging visitors a small amount archaeology department can make lots of money and by using this money they can fund further excavations.

[@Iight-bot]

Good exposition, thanks. But you seem to have a particular liking for the word particular.

[@navinislamabad]

❤

[@gangadharhiremath7306]

*Shekhar Gupta should cut the clutter of this lady.* She tries being "sensational" with zero content.Woolyness created out of her superfluous words is no substitute for a fact based archaeology or history.

[@gopalaraodasari7743]

How much of archaeological findings and their interpretation influence modern day politics?

[@mpnikhil]

5:47 That is not Dr BB Lal. It is MDN Sahi. One would expect any video on Indian archaeology to know the difference. How can you take this seriously? It is obvious that whoever put this video together did a google image search and picked the first image without even a cursory verification. Where are the editors? Doesn't Ms Ahluwalia who so carefully avoids referring to the Ghaggar as Saraswati while making it a point to mention some fictitious invasion/migration take a cursory look at the video before publication?

[@iuvvuiieii]

The painted grey ware pottery appears to be associated with the Steppe immigrant culture beginning 1500bc. The Harapoan black and red pottery would have disappeared in 1900bc when the Indus moved camp in response to a deteriorating warlike atmosphere and imminent invasion.

[@gatewaypartners8018]

Why you can't buy a 300 INR lapel mic and at least try to make a basic quality video vs such terrible audio! Like seriously, why?

[@babydragon2047]

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[@unvarnishedraw6583]

Am sorry but Mr B B Lal is a *historian* , not an *archeologist* !!!

[@tsMuthuraman-hm6wg]

Mr. B B Lal , was the head of ASI !

[@unvarnishedraw6583]

He was a masters in Sanskrit. He had some training but he certainly was not a qualified archeologist. Therein lies another tale of tragedy of Indian past.@@tsMuthuraman-hm6wg

[@tsMuthuraman-hm6wg]

@@unvarnishedraw6583 BB Lal was the head of ASI and the people under him were archeologists ! There is no need of Sanskrit to unearth artifacts by archeological excavations and evaluate their time period ! The fact is that no such articles dateable to maha bharath times !

[@abarry2109]

Your spoken English is poor. I need to focus hard to understand you.

[@DharmaPAC]

Interesting subject. Needs to be more concise and dense. Needs to stop saying "you know". Needs a high quality microphone.

[@pcom9209]

SUPER BORING