Tribes in Ancient India c7.32

c7.32

Returning to the history of the tribe itself, we find that the authors of the *Vedic Index* consider that the Kurus represent a comparatively late wave of Aryan immigration into India. ‘The geographical position of the Kuru-Pañcālas’, they say, ‘renders it probable that they were later immigrants into India than the Kosala-Videhas or the Kāsīs who must have been pushed into their more eastward territories by a new wave of Aryan settlers from the west’.¹