The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c7.s8.4

c7.s8.4

De la Vallée Poussin has a section entitled "*Conquête de l'Inde par les Grecs*" (Conquest of India by the Greeks), referring to "*les rois grecs*" (the Greek kings).¹⁸ About the princes of the House of Euthydeme he says "*ils font la conquête de l'Inde*" (They make the conquest of India). Such expressions are perhaps not more reasonable than those like "Europe" being conquered by the Persians, the Saracens, the Tartars or Mongols of Western, Central and Northern Asia, such as Asian historians have a right to use for certain periods of military contact in Eur-Asian history.¹⁹ The "expansion of Asia," i.e. the establishment of Greater Asia in Europe was achieved by the force of Oriental arms, the "edge of Damascus blades."