[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924) › c32.5 # The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c32.5 The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c32.5 - **Language:** English ### [c32.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c32.5) But considerable difference of opinion exists as to the exact date of the raid on Nūdīah, which is not stated in the \*Ṭabaḳāt\*, our only authority for the details. That work, it may be noted, was closed in A. H. 658, practically equivalent to A. D. 1260. The author, commonly called Minhāj-i-Sirāj, expressly states that in A. H. 641 (June, A. D. 1243–June, 1244) he obtained an account of the operations of Muhammad the son of Bakhtyār against Bihār town from two of his surviving soldiers (Raverty, \*transl.\*, p. 552). His account, therefore, has almost the authority of a contemporary narrative so far as that event is concerned. But he does not seem to have been so well informed about the raid on Nūdīah. - [Previous: c32.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c32.4) - [Next: c32.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c32.6) - [Up: c32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c32) ## Linked texts (1) - [Ṭabaqāt-i Nāṣirī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri) — Minhāj al-Dīn Jūzjānī --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c32.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c32.5) · Pramāṇa