Since I collected beads in the (late) 1960s and '70s, and later, I can say with confidence that the vast majority of glass beads from India (and Pakistan)—not that there were so many—were small plain crude furnace-wound beads. Many were sub-spheroidal oblates and rings, and in limited colors in the '60s/early '70s. In 1974 multicolored furnace-wound beads were introduced. these were larger, less crude, and had more shape varieties (barrels, longer fusiforms, and press-molded angular shapes). The first appearance of mosaic-glass beads was 1980. These included bad copies of Venetian beads, more-attractive flower beads supposedly to resemble ancient millefiori, and the first wave of face beads.

I would not characterize the beads you show as "older." In fact, they my be fairly recent. Necklaces of Indian glass with African-inspired brass pendants are something of a chimera.

Peter Francis' booklet on The Glass Beads Of India (1979) demonstrates the beads he collected in India at that time.

Jamey