The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s2.8

c10.s2.8

One thing however must be noticed here which will be elaborated later. The Greek ‘conquest’ of India was hardly a conquest in the ordinary sense of the word, the sense in which Alexander conquered Persia. But in the earlier part of this chapter I shall for convenience use the conventional language of conquest, and shall consider in the latter part what it was and what it meant.