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The Modern History of Hindostan: Comprising that of the Greek Empire of Bactria and Other Asiatic Kingdoms Bordering on Its Western Frontier. Commencing at the Period of the Death of Alexander and Intended to be Brought to the Close of the Eighteenth Century

1802

CHAPTER I. Garr Vi w o the Empire and summary Survey of the Character and Manners of the P op of Hindostan.—Sketch of the principal Events detailed in its Acleat s y with a Views to connect it with the Modern History of that Country.--akn Analysisoof the Contents of this awl the succeeding Volume—of the Characters of the successive Invaders of the Indian Terfiyry—and of the general Planpursu [...] CHAPTER I. General View of the Empire and summary Survey of the Character and Manners of the People of Hindostan.—Sketch of the principal Zvents detailed in its Ancient (History with a View to connect it with the Modern History of that Country.—An Aitalysis of the Contents of this and the succeeding Volume—of the Character3 of the successive Invaders of the Indian Territory—and of the general P [...] the view of the reader that triumphant hero; with his'deter'mined Greeks rafter traMpling on the ruins of the Persian empire bending their toilsome march down the 'precipices of Caucasus or rather of Paropamisus a branch of the Caucasus towards the banks of the Indus ; and we exhibited the mighty POVRAVA the Porus of the classics toweling above the rival princes of India as well in the gi [...] Dark and barren as this part of the.work must necessarily be I shall endeavour from various fragmenti relative to India in the history of these Seleucidx and that of the Ptolemys in Egypt; from the scanty records of the Greek sovereigns of Bactria the dynasty of the Arsacidw and the other neighbouring nations ; and from the twilight glimmering of information scattered through the pages of Ro [...] The career of the Macedonian conqueror over the mountainous districts of the Northern Asia was rapid and destructive ; he passed them with the transient and portentous glare of the comet but the south was long illumined by the more permanent and genial light shed by the glory which his arms acquired on the shores of the Indus and in the Pattalene.
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Pages
321
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142071
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Preface
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Book I. Containing the History of India From the Death of Alexander to the Commencement of the Mohammedan era
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Book II. Comprehending the Details of Indian History Froty the Brth of Mohammed to the Death of Timur Bec
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