[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) › c16.94 # The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c16.94 The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c16.94 - **Language:** English ### [c16.94](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c16.94) this disquieting communication was accompanied by the information that the murderers had been slain by the satrap’s Macedonian body-guard, Alexander was not then in a position to make permanent arrangements, and was obliged to content himself with sending a dispatch to India directing Āmbhi, king of Taxila, and Eudēmos, commandant of a Thracian contingent on the Upper Indus (Curtius, x, 1, 11), to assume the administration of the province until a satrap could be appointed in due course. The death of Alexander at Babylon in the following year (June, 323 B. C.)¹ effectually prevented any attempt being made to retain effective control over the conquered countries east of the Indus. - [Previous: c16.92](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c16.92) - [Next: c16.95](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c16.95) - [Up: c16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c16) ## Linked texts (1) - [Historiae Alexandri Magni](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.curtius) — Q. Curtius Rufus, Latin --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c16.94](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c16.94) · Pramāṇa