[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome # Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome Early contacts, Achaemenids, Alexander, Seleucids and Mauryas, Indo-Greeks, Roman trade, Periplus and Ptolemy, Indian influence on the West; Greek and Latin sources. - **Language:** English - **Author:** [H. G. Rawlinson](https://indike.org/pramana/person/rawlinson-hg) - **Extent:** 747 passages, 48,019 words - **Text:** complete digital text - **Source:** archive.org · 1st ed., Cambridge 1916; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and sections by Gemini 3.8… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (H. G. Rawlinson †1957); published before 1931: public… ## Contents - [c1 Front matter](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c1) — 12 parts - [c2 Preface](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c2) — 5 parts - [c3 Contents](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c3) — 1 part - [c4 Illustrations](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c4) — 3 parts - [c5 Errata](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c5) — 1 part - [c6 Chapter I. From the Earliest Times to the Fall of Babylon](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c6) — 60 parts - [c7 Chapter II](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c7) — 48 parts - [c8 Chapter III. The Maurya Empire. Megasthenes](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c8) — 110 parts - [c9 Chapter IV. Greek and Semi-Greek Dynasties of the Panjāb](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c9) — 69 parts - [c10 Chapter V. The Ptolemies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c10) — 40 parts - [c11 Chapter VI](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c11) — 79 parts - [c12 Chapter VII](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c12) — 76 parts - [c13 Chapter VIII. The Effects of the Intercourse Between India and the West](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c13) — 72 parts - [c14 Bibliography](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c14) — 5 parts - [c15 Index](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c15) — 54 parts --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916) · Pramāṇa