Introductory. While introducing the State in the first Chapter We said that it originated in the bare need of life and continues in existence for the good life of man. But it is shrouded in mystery when and how the state came into existence. The recent researches in the sciences of Anthropology Ethnol ogy and Comparative Philology throw some light on the subject but all this is not sufficient to offer a matter of fact explanation of the origin of the state Speculation is then the only alternative and we examine a number of theories that have been advanced froom time to time varying with the credulity of the age. The most important of these theories are