The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c30.101

c30.101

The visitation of the Hun invasions had caused such suffering that the wholesome despotism of Harsha was recognized as a necessary remedy. When he died, the wounds inflicted by the fierce foreign savages had long been healed, while the freedom of the country from external attack relieved men’s minds from feeling the necessity for a deliverer; and so India instantly reverted to her normal condition of anarchical autonomy.