The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature: All volumes — John Shaqi
The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature: All volumesVarious
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The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature: All volumes
Various
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The Macedonians seem here, as elsewhere, to
have placed natives at the head of their district administrations, and the
Sinha rulers call themselves Satraps and Maha Rajahs, and use Greek
legends on their coins, but evidently they soon acquired complete
independence. Simultaneously or nearly so with these Indo-Greek
principalities, we find invasions of India by the race commonly called
Scythians, but more accurately Jutchi, Sacae, and White Huns. These also
formed independent kingdoms. But again native leaders of enterprise arose
who put an end to foreign dominion. Vikramadit, who founded an era 57
B.C., and whose exploits have made a deep impression upon the native mind,
is thought to be one of the Hindu leaders who succeeded in expelling a
foreign dynasty. And it would appear that towards the middle of the third
century after Christ all foreign dominion had disappeared from the soil of
India, except perhaps some small settlements of Jutchi, on the banks of
the Indus; and except the temporary conquest of Sind by the Arabs in the
seventh century, from which they were soon expelled by the Sumea
Rajputs[3]. Thus, during a period of 600 years, we have encountered a
series of invasions and conquests of portions of India by foreign rulers,
but all successively driven out by the energy of native leaders. Thereupon
followed the establishment of native dynasties all over India. It was
chiefly during the 700 years that now ensued, up to the invasion of India
by Mahmud of Ghazni, that the great works of Sanscrit literature in
poetry, grammar, algebra, and astronomy, appeared. During this period also
the Rajputs, who have been well called the Normans of the East, seem to
have found their way to nearly every throne in India. Their acquisition of
power has never been fully traced, and probably the materials are wanting
for any full or accurate account of it; but the subject is well worthy the
attention of an Indian student.
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