Indus

79:1.3By 8000 B.C. the slowly in­creas­ing arid­ity of the high­land re­gions of cen­tral Asia be­gan to drive the And­ites to the river bot­toms and the seashores. This in­creas­ing drought not only drove them to the val­leys of the Nile, Eu­phrates, In­dus, and Yel­low rivers, but it pro­duced a new de­vel­op­ment in And­ite civ­i­liza­tion. A new class of men, the traders, be­gan to ap­pear in large num­bers.

79:2.4About 15,000 B.C. in­creas­ing pop­u­la­tion pres­sure through­out Tur­kes­tan and Iran oc­ca­sioned the first re­ally ex­ten­sive And­ite move­ment to­ward In­dia. For over fif­teen cen­turies these su­pe­rior peo­ples poured in through the high­lands of Baluchis­tan, spread­ing out over the val­leys of the In­dus and Ganges and slowly mov­ing south­ward into the Dec­can. This And­ite pres­sure from the north­west drove many of the south­ern and east­ern in­fe­ri­ors into Burma and south­ern China but not suf­fi­ciently to save the in­vaders from racial oblit­er­a­tion.

79:2.1In­dia is the only lo­cal­ity where all the Uran­tia races were blended, the And­ite in­va­sion adding the last stock. In the high­lands north­west of In­dia the San­gik races came into ex­is­tence, and with­out ex­cep­tion mem­bers of each pen­e­trated the sub­con­ti­nent of In­dia in their early days, leav­ing be­hind them the most het­ero­ge­neous race mix­ture ever to ex­ist on Uran­tia. An­cient In­dia acted as a catch basin for the mi­grat­ing races. The base of the penin­sula was for­merly some­what nar­rower than now, much of the deltas of the Ganges and In­dus be­ing the work of the last fifty thou­sand years.

79:3.6The Dra­vid­ian cen­ters of cul­ture were lo­cated in the river val­leys, prin­ci­pally of the In­dus and Ganges, and in the Dec­can along the three great rivers flow­ing through the East­ern Ghats to the sea. The set­tle­ments along the sea­coast of the West­ern Ghats owed their promi­nence to mar­itime re­la­tion­ships with Sume­ria.