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⁷ S. N. Pradhan : *Chronology of Ancient India* (Calcutta 1927), pp. 268-269. But see H. C. Ray Chaudhuri; *Political History of Ancient India* (Calcutta 1932) pp. 19-22 24-26. The dates used in the present work differ in certain respects from those in the *Cambridge History of India* Vol. I. (1922), pp. 699-703. A comprehensive account of the Kurus, Pānchālas, Matsyas, Surasenas, Chedis, Vaśas, Avantis and Usinaras is offered in B. C. Law : *Ancient Mid-Indian Tribes* Vol. I. (Calcutta 1924). See also the continuation in his *Ancient Indian Tribes* Vol. II. (London 1934). For the socio-political conditions of Northern India on the eve of the advent of Sākya the Buddha see the five chapters in N. Dutt : *Early History of the Spread of Buddhism* (London 1925), pp. 82-194.