The Greeks in Bactria And India

A.K. Narain Illustrator: . The Indo-Greeks, B.R. Publishing Corporation, Delhi 2003 ISBN: 9788176463492

New Hardcover 15 x 23 cm. This is the fourth printing of The IndoA Greeks (the first three were published in 1957, 1962 and 1980). This revisit of the original 1957 text is supplemented by later contributions made by the author. It includes a chapter published in The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. VIII and some articles which take into account the archaeological findings at Ai-Khanum and results of interactions between the Greeks and Indians. It also includes the handy and useful Coin-types of the Indo-Greek Kings (published already 3 times). There is a consolidated Bibliography at the end along with few maps and illustrative plates. This book deals with the remarkable story of the Graeco-Bactrian and GraecoA Indian peoples who interacted, and gradually became integrated, with the peoples and cultures of India. Until this book, the advanced study of this remarkable episode in the ancient history of Asia had been confined to European scholars. Narain is the first Asian historian to produce a monograph on the subject. This work, which has been translated into Hindi and Chinese, is base mainly on the coins which are their most important historical records, the classical literary sources in Sanskrit and Pali, Greek, Latin and Chinese, epigraphic documents and material evidence from archaeological excavations. This book gives a detailed and a reasonably accurate account of the vicissitudes of the Indo-Greek kingdoms and clears up many misconceptions. The history of the Indo-Greeks is placed on a firm basis of chronology, and is seen against more than one background-the world of the heirs of Alexander in western Asia, that of the successors of the Mauryas in India and the local elements in Bactria at the end of the Achaemenids. The author feels that the recent discoveries at Ai-Khanum and other findings generally confirm and strengthen his conclusions about the Yavanas, that "they came, they saw, but India conquered" (The Indo-Greeks, p. 18 and Cambridge Ancient History, Chapter ll,p. 278). Contents A Prefatory Note Section I : THE INDO-GREEKS (Complete Text of the Book) Section II : THE GREEKS OF BACTRIA AND INDIA (The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. VIII (2nd Edition), Chapter 11) Section III : THE COIN-TYPES OF THE INDO-GREEK KINGS, 256-54 B.C. Preface Abbreviations Used A Chart Showing the Indo-Greek Kings in Genealogical and Chronological Arrangement I. THE COIN TYPES OF THE INDO-GREEK KINGS : 1. Diodotus I [256-248] 2. Diodotus II [248-235] 3. Euthydemus I [235-200] 4. Demetrius I [200-185] 5. Euthydemus II [200-190] 6. Antimachus I [190-180] 7. Demetrius II [180-165] 8. Pantaleon [185-175] 9. Agathocles [180-165] 10. Eucratides I [171-155] 11. Plato [155-?] 12. Heliocles I [155-140] 13. Menander [155-130] 14. Polyxenus [? -130] 15. Epander [? -130] 16. Strata I [130-95] : i. Agathocleia and Strato I ii. Strato I 17. Eucratides II [140-?] 18. Heliocles II [122-115] 19. Archebius [130-120] 20. Antimachus II [130-125] 21. Philoxenus [125-115] 22. Zoilus I [?-125] 23. Lysias [120-110] 24. Antialcidas [115-100] 25. Apollodotus [115-95] 26. Nicias [95-85] 27. Hippostratus [85-70] 28. Zoilus II [95-80] 29. Dionysius [95-80] 30. Apollophanes [95-80] 31. Strato I & Strato II [85-75] 32. Artemidorus [?-95] 33. Peucolaus [?-95] 34. Telephus [95-80] 35. Theophilus [?-85] 36. Diomedes [95-85] 37. Amyntas [85-75] 38. Hermaeus [75-55] : i. Hermaeus ii. Hermaeus with Calliope Section IV : THE ARTICLES : 1. Alexander and India 2. The Two Hindu Divinities on the Coins of Agathocles from Ai-Khanum 3. The Greek Monogram @ and Ai-Khanum-The Bactrian Greek City 4. The Earliest Brahmi : Inscription outside India 5. On the Foundation and Chronology of Ai-Khanum : A Greek-Bactrian City 6. Notes on Some Inscriptions from Ai Khanum (Afghanistan) 7. On Some Greek Inscripti Printed Pages: 595. 4th edition

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W.W. Tarn: The Greeks in Bactria and India, New Delhi, India Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 1980 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; 1. Ed. ISBN: 81-215-0220-9
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The history of the Euthydemids, the fifth of the Hellenistic dynasties, and of the far Eastern division of Alexander's Empire which they ruled, has hitherto been written only by Indian historians as a part of the history of Iran and of Northern India. But it is really a part of the history of Hellenism, and any study of the Hellenistic states with the Farther East omitted is a mutilated history; for the Euthydemids, both in the extent of their rule and in what they tried to do, were vastly more important than the Attalids, who merely from having been the proteges successively of Egypt and of Rome, have received more attention. The present book is the story, seen from the Greek point of view, of Greek rule in Eastern Iran and Northern India; it recovers what can be recovered of the history of a lost dynasty and of a remarkable political experiment. In this Second Edition the author has added a body of notes and Addenda, some of which are revisions of the text, in order to indicate the advance of knowledge since 1938. Printed Pages: 586 with 4 maps. Reprint New Hard Cover 15 Cms x 23 Cms; Reprint

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W.W. Tarn Illustrator: . The Greeks in Bactria and India, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 1980 ISBN: 9788121502207

Fine Hardcover 15 x 23 cm. The history of the Euthydemids, the fifth of the Hellenistic dynasties, and of the far Eastern division of Alexander's Empire which they ruled, has hitherto been written only by Indian historians as a part of the history of Iran and of Northern India. But it is really a part of the history of Hellenism, and any study of the Hellenistic states with the Farther East omitted is a mutilated history; for the Euthydemids, both in the extent of their rule and in what they tried to do, were vastly more important than the Attalids, who merely from having been the proteges successively of Egypt and of Rome, have received more attention. The present book is the story, seen from the Greek point of view, of Greek rule in Eastern Iran and Northern India; it recovers what can be recovered of the history of a lost dynasty and. of a remarkable political experiment. In this Second Edition the author has added a body of notes and Addenda, some of which are revisions of the text, in order to indicate the advance of knowledge since 1938. Printed Pages: 584. First edition

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Demetrios Th. Vassiliades: The Greeks in India: A Survey in Philosophical Understanding, New Delhi, India Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2000 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; 1. Ed. ISBN: 81-215-0921-1
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This book relates to the history of the ideological presence of the Greeks in India. Unlike the previous works, which have been focused on particular historical periods, the present study aims to present the literary and religio-philosophic character of the Greeks in India as they interact with the Indians and the Indian culture from the earliest times to the present. It includes prehistoric, mythical and the first historically attested accounts of contact, a critical review of the Oriental Origin theory and travels of the Greek Philosophers who are commonly thought to have visited or to have been influenced by India, the meeting of Alexander with the Indian Gymnosophists, the inter-religious contacts that took place between the two peoples during the reign of the Indo-Greek kingdoms in Bactria and the Medieval Ages, and a critical study of the identity of the Yavanas as they occur in Indian texts and inscriptions. The book provides further information on the life and work of the first and foremost Greek Indologist Demetrios Galanos, a record of Indological studies in Greece, and reviews on the works made by contemporary Greek scholars and diplomatic representatives in India. Printed Pages: 277 with 56 b/w illustrations and 2 maps. First Edition New Cloth 16.5 Cms x 25 Cms; First Edition

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