"Even Makran remained independent with varying degrees of freedom commensurate with the intensity of resistance so tha…"

"Further evidence in the Chachnama makes perfectly clear that many areas of Makran as of Sindh had a largely Buddhist …"

"Makran, ‘the frontier of al-Hind’ in the early Arab conquest (futuh) literature, is identified by the geographers of …"

"“in the denomination of Ariana, which became known to the Greeks after the Macedonian conquest of the eastern territo…"

"[Likewise, in later Greek tradition, Ariane] “is the Greek name which doubtless reflects an older Iranian tradition t…"

"The evidence from Pirak is, till now, the best from any part of the whole Indus system during this period."

"The Indo-Aryan invasion doesn’t get farther than Pirak in Baluchistan."

"In the case of Pirak, however, it must be admitted that the cultural innovations do not appear to be clearly Indo-Eur…"

"[None of the transformations] can be explained in the context of invasions of semi-nomadic peoples coming from the [C…"

"The processes [at Pirak] are too complex to be attributed to the arrival of invaders who at the same time would have …"