The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c7.3

c7.3

Although the first clause of Elphinstone’s proposition, if strictly interpreted, still remains true—no date in Indian history prior to Alexander’s invasion being determinable with absolute precision—modern research has much weakened the force of the observation, and has enabled scholars to fix a considerable number of dates in the pre-Alexandrine history of India with approximate accuracy, sufficient for most purposes.