[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924) › c16.110 # The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c16.110 The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c16.110 - **Language:** English ### [c16.110](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c16.110) Mr. Edwyn Bevan has kindly drawn my attention to the following German publications on Alexander’s Indian campaign, viz.:— 1. Max. Graf Yorck v. Wartenburg, \*Kurze Uebersicht der Feldzüge Alexanders des Grossen\*, Berlin, Mittler and Son, 1897. The author adopts the erroneous theory that the Hydaspes was crossed at Jalālpur, and, like the other writers cited in this note, shows no acquaintance with modern literature on the subject in English. His attempt to exhibit on a map the courses of the rivers in Alexander’s time is purely imaginary, and unsupported by any evidence. 2. C. Schubert, ‘Die Porusschlacht’ (\*Rheinisches Museum für Philologie\*, Band lxvi (1901), pp. 543–62). Some of the author’s views differ from mine. I do not believe that any serious advance of knowledge can be secured, until people agree as to the crossing-place and then test the historian’s accounts by prolonged local investigation. 3. Hans Delbrück, \*Geschichte der Kriegskunst u. a., erster Teil\*, 2te Auflage (Stilke, Berlin, 1908), pp. 214–25. I agree that Alexander probably did not bring 100,000 or 120,000 men across the Hindū Kush and that most of the statistics of armies in ancient authors are untrustworthy. See \*supra\*, p. 52, note 2. I have looked through all the three publications and do not find reason to alter my text. The treatise by A. E. Anspach, \*De Alexandri Magni Expeditione Indica\* (Teubner, Leipzig, 1902, 1903) is useful for critical annotations on the Greek and Latin writers, but they are too minute for me to utilize. - [Previous: c16.109](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c16.109) - [Next: c17.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c17.1) - [Up: c16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c16) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c16.110](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c16.110) · Pramāṇa