[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) › c7.22 # The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c7.22 The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c7.22 - **Language:** English ### [c7.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c7.22) The same difficulty besets the historian of Greece still more pressingly; but, in that case, with the attainment of unity the interest of the history vanishes. In the case of India the converse proposition holds good, and the reader's interest varies directly with the degree of unity attained; the details of Indian annals being insufferably wearisome except when generalized by the application of a bond of political union. - [Previous: c7.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c7.21) - [Next: c7.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c7.23) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c7.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c7.22) · Pramāṇa