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Indian History

1914

A recent Indian author justly observes that ' India suffers to-day in the estimation of the world more through that world's ignorance of the achievments of the heroes of Indian history than through the absence Of insignificance of such achievements '.1 The following pages may serve to prove that the men of old time in India did deeds worthy of remembrance and deserving of rescue from the obliv [...] The existing English accounts of Alexander's marvellous campaign among which that of Thirhvall perhaps is entitled to the highest place treat the story as an appendix to the history of Greece rather than as part of that of India and fail to make full use of the results of the labours of modern geographers and archaeologists. [...] Pargiter holds that a carful examination of the names of rivers and mountains in Canto 57 of the 211-litlauyfega Purina indicates that in ancient times the name Vindhya was confined to the easern part of the range to the north of the Narmada extending from about Bhopal to Bihar the more western part of the range along with the Aravallis (Aravala) being included under the term Paripatra (.1 [...] The scientific historian of India the n ought to begin his study with the basin of the Krishna of the Cauvery of the Vaigai rather than with the Gangetie plain as it has been now long too long the fashion.' When the ideal Early History of India including instittions as well as political vicissitudes comes to be written on a large scale it may be that the hints given by the learned P [...] In the fourteenth chapter the reader will find a condensed account of the more salient events in the story of the principal mediaeval kindoms of the north ; and the two succeeding chapters are devoted to an outline of the fortunes of the kingdoms of the Deccan tableland and the Peninsula so far as they are known from the earliest times to the 'Muhammadan invasion at the beginning of the four
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Pages
539
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.141719
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Preface
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Chapter I
1-26 unknown view
Chapter II The Dynasties Before Alexander
27-48 unknown view
Chapter III Alexander’s Indian Campaign: The Advance
49-87 unknown view
Chapter IV Alexander’s Indian Campaign :The Retreat
88-114 unknown view
Chapter V Chandragupta Maurya and Bindusara from 221 B.C. to 272 B.C
115-153 unknown view
Chapter VI Asoka Maurya
154-174 unknown view
Chapter VII Asoka Maurya (Continued); and his Successors
175-197 unknown view
Chapter VIII The Sunga Kanva and Andhra Dynasties 185 B.C. to A.D.C. 225
198-i unknown view
Chapter IX The Indo-Greek and Indo-Parthian Dynasties from about 250 B.C. to about A.D. 60
219-247 unknown view
Chapter X The Kuahan or Indo-Scythian Dynasty from about A.D. 20 to A.D. 225
248-278 unknown view
Chapter XI The Gupta Empire and the Western Satraps; Chandra-Gupta I to Kumaragupta I From A.D. 320 to 455
279-300 unknown view
Chapter XII The Gupta Empire (Continued); and the White Huns from A.D. 455 to 606
301-334 unknown view
Chapter XIII The Reign of Harsha from A.D. 606 to 647
335-359 unknown view
Chapter XIV The Mediaeval Kingdoms of the North from A.D. 647 to 1200
360-422 unknown view
Chapter XV The Kingdoms of the Deccan
423-437 unknown view
Chapter XVI The Kingdoms of the South
438-478 unknown view
Index
479-512 unknown view

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