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The Early History of India. From 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest Including the Invasion of Alexander the Great

1908

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 achievements of the heroes of Indian history than through the absence or 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 oblivion [...] In the case of India the converse proposition holds good and the reader's interest varies directly with the degree of unity attained ; the details of Indian annals being insufferably wearisome except when generalized by the application of a bond of political union.6 INTRODUCTION PredomA history of India if it is to be read must necessarily be nant the story of the predominant dynasties and [...] 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 fourt [...] In short the labours of many scholars have succeeded in tracing in firm lines the outline of the history of Northern India from the beginning of the historical period to the Muhammadan conquest with one important exception that of the Kushan or Indo-Scythian period the date of which is still open to discussion. [...] Much progress has been made in the determination of the chronology of the Southern dynasties and the dates of the Pallavas a dynasty the very existence of which was Gupta era.
history
Pages
508
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.144070
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i Vincent Smith view
Frontmatter
i-xiii Vincent Smith view
Chapter I
1-23 Vincent Smith view
Chapter II. The Dynasties before Alexander
24-44 Vincent Smith view
Chapter III. Alexander’s Indian Campaign: the Advance
45-85 Vincent Smith view
Chapter IV. Alexander’s Indian Campaign: the Retreat
86-112 Vincent Smith view
Chapter V. Chandragupta Maurya and Bindusara from 321 B.C. to 272 B.C.
113-142 Vincent Smith view
Chapter VI. Asoka Maurya
143-163 Vincent Smith view
Chapter VII. Asoka Maurya (Continued) and His Successors
164-185 Vincent Smith view
Chapter VIII. The Sunga Kanva and Andhra Dynasties 184 B.C. to 236 A.D.
186-205 Vincent Smith view
Chapter IX. The Indo-Greek and Indo-Parthian Dynasties 250 B.C. to 60 A.D.
206-231 Vincent Smith view
Chapter X. The Kushan or Indo-Scythian Dynasty from 45 to 225 A.D.
232-264 Vincent Smith view
Chapter XI. The Gupta Empire and the Western Satraps; Chandra-Gupta I to Kumaragupta I from 320 to 455 A.D.
265-284 Vincent Smith view
Chapter XII. The Gupta Empire (Continued) and the White Huns from 455 to 606 A.D.
285-308 Vincent Smith view
Chapter XIII. The Reign of Harsha from 606 to 648 A.D.
309-331 Vincent Smith view
Chapter XIV. The Mediaeval Kingdoms of the North from 648 to 1200 A.D.
332-381 Vincent Smith view
Chapter XV. The Kingdoms of the Deccan
382-395 Vincent Smith view
Chapter XVI. The Kingdoms of the South
396-429 Vincent Smith view
Index
430-462 Vincent Smith view
Backmatter
i-16 Vincent Smith view

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