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E found it necessary to devote the whole of last chapter to the periodization of Indian history. We must now try to present a bird's-eye view of the most important events in that history by means of our usual clothed dates. As in the case of Greece, some of the periods will be almost transformed into clothed dates. We shall not require much more 'clothing' for the dates than is supplied by the language employed in describing the periods. We begin with the second period, as the first is concerned with events outside India.

We saw in the last chapter what this date is supposed to represent. The land is the circumscribed country of the Panjab or Five Rivers. The people are the Deva-worshippers, whose religious tenets had offended some of the Aryan tribesmen. The political