Amal Kiran developed a systematic understanding and exposition of the subject of Indian prehistory over a period of almost forty years. Four books by him bear upon this subject. Two are devoted entirely to this topic, while two more touch upon it along with considerations of early history.

It is evident that he has minutely pored over several hundred original research sources and findings covering a wide array of viewpoints and methodologies. Nothing has been rejected from consideration on doctrinaire or dogmatic grounds; each item has been dealt with on its merit. He has sifted through a mass of details of both fact and conjecture, compared theories and data within and across sources, weighed probabilities and subjective assessments assigned by and to different authors, and systematically discovered inconsistencies between theories and between theory and fact. He has synthesized and integrated all relevant material available during the course of his work. With novel insights gained from such a deep study, he has put forth a cogent view of Indian prehistory that unifies known facts and relieves inconsistencies. He has corresponded with several researchers either to test the validity of his view or to test the conviction of their position, and he has refined his ideas, their substantiation and their presentation through successive publications.

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