The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c26.s1.79

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For a period of nearly two centuries after the beginning of the nomad and Parthian invasions, the northern portions of the Indian borderland, comprising probably the valley of the Kābul river, the Suwāt valley, some neighbouring districts to the north and north-west of Peshāwar, and the Eastern Panjāb, remained under the government of local Greek princes; who, whether independent, or subject to the suzerainty of a Parthian overlord, certainly exercised the prerogative of coining silver and bronze money.