ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the potential interest of the subject and suggests that some of the problems which are ripe for consideration. The first problem must be to discover what animals were utilized at different periods and what was the history of each species. A second problem would seem to involve the origin of each domestic species, and whether it was introduced from outside in an already domesticated condition, or was locally domesticated from indigenous wild species. A third problem would be to find out what changes, if any, were consequent upon domestication. A fourth general problem would concern the utilization of different species, for food, traction at various periods. In India and Pakistan representations in terracotta and painting, on either rock or pottery, suggest that the former was the universal type of cattle. The study of the animal remains from Harappa seems to indicate, whenever diagnostic characters are available, that they belong to humped cattle.
