[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922) › v1.c19.s2.1 # The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c19.s2.1 The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c19.s2.1 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c19.s2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s2.1) There is no chapter or even paragraph in the early Pāli books describing the political conditions of North India during the lifetime of the Buddha. But there are a considerable number of incidental references, all the more valuable perhaps because they are purely incidental, that, if collected and arranged, give us a picture, no doubt imperfect, but still fairly correct as far as it goes, of the general conditions, as they appeared to the composers of the paragraphs in which the incidental references occur. They were collected in the present writer's \*Buddhist India\*; and to that work the reader is referred for a fuller account. Considerations of space render it possible to state here only the more important of the conclusions which these references compel us to draw. - [Previous: v1.c19.s1.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s1.20) - [Next: v1.c19.s2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s2.2) - [Up: v1.c19.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s2.1) · Pramāṇa