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Alexander the Great

13 articles in the archive discuss Alexander the Great, from The Indian Historical Quarterly, Jain Avenue, The Jaina Gazette and other journals (1925–2023). Open any article for its summary, citation and original PDF.

13 articles

Articles discussing Alexander the Great

  1. Persian and Greek Coins and their Imitations in Ancient India

    Surendra Kishore Chakraborty · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1934

  2. Fictitious and Apocryphal Reports concerning India

    A. Banerji - Sastri · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1943

    “The reports of the ‘fictitious’ kind are contained 10 the EpoPccs in which the campaign of Dionysos to India is chanted; those of the ‘apocryphal kind on the contrary in the fabulous history of Alexander the Great,”
  3. The Visuddhimagga and the Silver Bent-Bars

    Rabis C. Kar · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1946

  4. The Achaemenids and India

    Sudhakar Chattopadhyaya · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1950

  5. Some Additional Notes on Foreign Elements in the Hindu Population

    Niharranjan Roy · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1928

    “foreign elements began to pour 1080 Aryan Hindu India only with the invasion of Alexander the Great (326 B.C.).”
  6. An Interview with Anand Jain

    Scott Douglas Jacobsen · Jain Avenue, 2023

  7. The Opening Speech Of His Highness The Maharaja Of Mysore.

    The Jaina Gazette, 1925

  8. Select Contents of Oriental Journals

    The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1942

    “The writings of those who accompanied Alexander the Great to India, and those who came to the country .after his invaston show that these Greek authors had ત fairly accurate knowledge of the Geography બ India and they knew also the varieties of Indian plants and animals, and the people and their different customs પ in the country before Christ.”
  9. On the Religion of Canakya

    Jyoti Prasad Jain · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1974

    “It has long been established and admitted by historians generally that the great emperor Candragupta Maurya (circa 325-297 B.C.) who was a contemporary and worthy rival of Alexander the Great of Macedon, was a follower of Jainism. But, the fact that his political guru Canakya alias Kautilya, the great Machiavelli of India, was also a Jaina by religion has not yet been given due recognition by modern historians.”
  10. Alexander and Alexandria in Indian Literature

    Maurice Winternitz · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1936

    “The name एव Alexander the Great which has main- tained the same prestige 313 the traditions of the Near Hast aa in those of the West has not yel been discovered even 10 a single Indian text.”
  11. An Anthropological Study of the Religion of the Jains

    Noel Rettig · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1972

  12. The Seleucidan Emperors: their Coins and Coin-imitations in India

    Surendra Kishore Chakraborty · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1935

  13. Surunga and the Kautiliya Arthasastra

    Maurice Winternitz · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1925