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Is there any recommended reading you have on this? In general, all the foreign conquests that succeeded in India even later were when it was fragmented into sma
by actuator 6y ago
Is there any recommended reading you have on this? In general, all the foreign conquests that succeeded in India even later were when it was fragmented into smaller kingdoms.
- ViralBShah 6y agoI'll highly recommend "Ashoka: The Search for India's Lost Emperor". https://www.amazon.com/Ashoka-Search-Indias-Lost-Emperor/dp/1468300717 https://www.amazon.com/Ashoka-Search-Indias-Lost-Emperor/dp/... Not so much about Chanakya, but about that period in India, and describes in depth how the history was pieced together.
- muststopmyths 6y agoProbably doesn't exist, since "India's defeat at the hands of Alexander" never happened. He barely made it to the border of the largest empire in contemporary India, by geography. Even the parts of current Pakistan he conquered were nowhere near major powers in the subcontinent. That was as far as he got before his army rebelled and forced him to abandon further conquest.
- logicx24 6y agoThis is broadly true, though he did have an impressive victory at the Hydaspes and establish a series of vassal states in the Indian northwest (modern Pakistan). The historical consensus is that it's unlikely he would have succeeded in a Persian-esque conquest of the subcontinent.
- humility 6y agoYeah it's a gross simplification. At that time India was fragmented into small kingdoms, and Alexander just defeated a western kingdom before marching around.