The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c29.195

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The extinction of the Ephthalite power on the Oxus necessarily dried up, or at least greatly contracted, the stream of barbarian immigration into India, which enjoyed, so far as is known, almost complete immunity from foreign attack for nearly five centuries after the defeat of Mihiragula.¹ The following chapters will tell how she made use, or failed to make use, of the opportunity thus afforded for internal development unchecked by foreign aggression.