The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c26.s1.49

c26.s1.49

The story of the Indo-Parthian dynasties really being that of certain outlying dependencies of the Parthian empire, we should be in a position to understand fully the relations of the Indo-Parthian rulers to the world of their day, if our knowledge of Parthian history were more complete than it is or is likely to be. The material actually available for the reconstruction in outline of Indo-Parthian history is so slight, consisting largely of inferences from numismatic details, that it is impossible to present an ordered narrative of indisputable facts, and the results of investigation necessarily must be in great part speculative. Subject to these cautions, the following sketch expresses my views of the facts—whether ascertained or merely probable—as obtained from special study of the question. The reader will understand that the dates suggested are open to correction.