Kuru is the name of an Indo-Aryan clan in Iron Age Vedic India, which startsin the Early Vedic period and later evolves into a republican Mahajanapada state in the later Vedic period.

The Kuru clan is located in the area of modern Haryana, Delhi and western parts of Uttar Pradesh n North India.

According to ancient texts, the territory of Kuru clan lay between the Rgvedic river Sarasvati and river Ganges and was split into two parts as Kuru-Jangala and Kuru Proper.The main information about this period is gathered from the Rig Veda, which was composed at the time when the Aryans first settled in North Western India—a land which they called the SaptaSindhu (the land of seven rivers), whose eastern boundary was defined by the Ganges river, until its confluence with Yamuna (as mentioned in the Rig Veda).

The Kuru clan, a branch of early Indo-Aryans, rules the Ganga-Jamuna Doab and modern Haryana (earlier Eastern Punjab).

However, until the Early Vedic period, the focus of the Vedic civilization is Punjab, while the Kuru land (Doab) is not even totally inhabited, and consists mostly of dense forests.