Synopsis The history of early India, from the earliest times to the end of the Maurya dynasty, has attracted the attention of modern scholars from the beginning of the Indological studies. The period incorporates what is generally described as ‘traditional’ history and also the age of the warring janapadas and of the Nanda-Maurya empire. For this vast span of time the sources available to historians are usually of uncertain date, diverse in nature, quite often contradictory in import and usually difficult to be reconciled with each other. Further, it was in this period that Indian polity saw the transition from tribal or lineage society to state and from state to empire. The attitudes and approaches of modern historians to the chronology, relative importance and significance of sources available to them as well as to what each of them thinks should be the questions he should pose before himself for investigation, have greatly differed. The present monograph makes in indepth study of these changing dimensions of the history writing of early India. It is pioneer work on the subject – at least no other work dealing so exhaustively with the new discoveries and the changing attitudes and approaches of the scholars of the post-1947 decades on the history of early India has so far been produced. It is, therefore, bound to become an indispensable work or researchers, teachers and students alike.