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

by Vincent Arthur Smith

I. 1. Introduction; 2. The Sources of Indian History; II. The Dynasties before Alexander, 600 to 326 B.C.; III. Alexander’s Indian Campaign : The Advance; IV. Alexander’s Indian Campaign : The Retreat; V. Chandragupta Maurya and Bindusara, from 221 to 272 B.C.; VI. Asoka Maurya; VII. Asoka Maurya (continued); and his Successors; VIII. The Sunga, Kanva, and Andhra Dynasties, from 185 B.C. to c. A.D. 225; IX. The Indo-Greek and Indo-Parthian Dynasties, from about 250 B.C. to A.D. 60; X. The Kushan or Indo-Scythian Dynasty, from about A.D. 20 to A.D. 225; XI. The Gupta Empire, and the Western Satraps ; Chandragupta I to Kumaragupta I, from A.D. 320 to A.D. 455; XII. The Gupta Empire (continued) ; and the White Huns, from A.D. 455 to 606; XIII. The Reign of Harsha, from A.D. 606 to 647; XIV. The Mediaeval Kingdoms of the North, from A.D. 647 to 1200; XV. The Kingdoms of the Deccan; XVI. The Kingdoms of the South; Index

Genres: India, History

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First published May 31, 2014

About the author

Vincent Arthur Smith CIE (3 June 1843 – 6 February 1920) was an Irish Indologist, historian, member of the Indian Civil Service, and curator. He was one of the prominent figures in Indian historiography during the British Raj.

In the 1890s, he was key to exposing the forgeries of Alois Anton Führer, then working for the Archaeological Survey of India, who Smith caught in the act of making fake inscriptions.