[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.s1.20 # The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c7.s1.20 The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c7.s1.20 - **Language:** English ### [c7.s1.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c7.s1.20) Arrian, a Graeco-Roman official of the second century after Christ, wrote a capital description of India, as well as an admirable critical history of Alexander's invasion. Both these works being based upon the reports of Ptolemy son of Lagos, and other officers of Alexander, and the writings of the Greek ambassadors, are entitled to a large extent to the credit of contemporary documents, so far as the Indian history of the fourth century B. C. is concerned. The works of Quintus Curtius and other authors, who essayed to tell the story of Alexander's Indian campaign, are far inferior in value; but each has merits of its own.² - [Previous: c7.s1.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c7.s1.19) - [Next: c7.s1.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c7.s1.21) - [Up: c7.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c7.s1) ## Cites (2) - [Historiae Alexandri Magni](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.curtius) — Q. Curtius Rufus, Latin - [Ἰνδική](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.gr.roman.arrian.indica) — Λούκιος Φλάουιος Ἀρριανός, Ancient Greek --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c7.s1.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c7.s1.20) · Pramāṇa