The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c26.s1.75

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² Father Joseph Dahlmann, S.J., has devoted an ingenious treatise, entitled *Die Thomas-Legende und die ältesten historischen Beziehungen des Christentums zum* *fernen Osten im Lichte der indischen Altertumskunde* (Freiburg im Breisgau, 1912), to an attempt to establish the historical credibility of the Gondopharēs story. I have read his work carefully without being convinced. I have not read Heck, *Hat der heilige Apostel Thomas das Evangelium gepredigt*? Prof. Garbe, reviewing both works, comes to the conclusion that the Thomas legend in all its forms is undeserving of credit, and that the Christianity of Southern India probably came from Persia as a consequence of the persecution of Christians in that country in A. D. 343 and 414 (*Ostasiatische Zeitschrift*, I, 364).