The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c14.46

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Grote, the historian of Greece, is the only author of repute who has shown due appreciation of Abbott’s labours, and he has acknowledged that the general’s memoir supplies ‘highly plausible reasons in support of the hypothesis that the crossing took place near Jelum’. Mr. Grote’s opinion would doubtless have become that of the learned world if General Abbott’s essay had been published in an easily accessible form. Buried as it is in an old volume of the Asiatic Society’s Journal, few people have read it; whereas the official publications of Sir Alexander Cunningham are widely known, and his opinions have been accepted too often without criticism.