The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c25.194

v1.c25.194

The army of occupation was, no doubt, in large part distributed through the new cities, which were intended in Alexander's design, not only to give the European root in the country, but to quicken India through Greek intelligence and enterprise to new developments of commercial activity and material splendour. There these little bodies of Europeans remained, when Alexander was gone, enclosed within their fresh-built walls, subject, it would seem, to the Macedonian satraps but not to the native princes², urged by the king's command to build docks and quays and reproduce the life of Greek cities upon the rivers of India.