Synopsis The book has marked a particular cultural phase of India and has associated it with the well known ceramic type, the Northern Black Polished Ware, signifying the period. This also involves a broad cultural area at the sub-continent at the advent of 2 urbanism. The extension of this cultural trait is seen in the extreme North/West in the Peshawar region, near Charsada and Udegram in the Swat. The pottery has extended in several places in the south and even beyond it, in Ceylon. The book historically documents how the presence of N.B.P. Ware defines a common socio-economic cultural pattern with which India was associated for a few centuries. The author most successfully presents here the N.B.P. culture of eastern India by organising and analysing serious quantity of data relevant to the answering of the question regarding the socio-economic religious and cultural life of the bigger parts of India, during 550 B.C. to 1000 B.C.