The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c16.108
The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c16.108
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¹ The paradox of Niese to the effect that the whole subsequent development of India was dependent upon Alexander’s institutions is not, I think, true in any sense, or supported by a single fact. His words are: ‘Man kann daher mit Recht behaupten, dass von den Einrichtungen Alexanders die ganze weitere Entwickelung Indiens abhängig gewesen ist’ (*Geschichte der griechischen und makedonischen Staaten seit der Schlacht bei Chaeronea*, I. Teil, p. 508; Gotha, 1893). The often-quoted lines by Matthew Arnold (*Obermann*) are much more to the point:—