The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c16.107

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India remained unchanged. The wounds of battle were quickly healed; the ravaged fields smiled again as the patient oxen and no less patient husbandmen resumed their interrupted labours; and the places of the slain myriads were filled by the teeming swarms of a population, which knows no limit save those imposed by the cruelty of man, or the still more pitiless operations of nature. India was not hellenized. She continued to live her life of ‘splendid isolation’, and soon forgot the passing of the Macedonian storm.¹ No Indian author, Hindu, Buddhist, or Jain, makes even the faintest allusion to Alexander or his deeds.