The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c7.s1.24

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The Chinese ‘Father of history’, Ssŭ-ma-ch’ien, ‘the Herodotus of China’, who completed his work about 100 B. C., is the first of a long series of Chinese historians, whose writings throw much light upon the early annals of India. The accurate chronology of the Chinese authors gives their statements peculiar value.¹