Canberra, 25 October 2015 Alexander of Macedonia, often called ‘Alexander the Great’, became the first confirmed outsider to have defeated an Indian king when he routed the army of King Porus on the banks of the River Hydaspes. How did he reach so far from his native Macedonia to the banks of the great Indus […]
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FROM INDUS TO INDEPENDENCE: A TREK THROUGH INDIAN HISTORY: Part 9
March 16, 2013 
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Canberra, 16 March 2013 MAGADHA ASCENDANT (684-321 BC) The north-western part of India, what is today Afghanistan and almost the whole of the Punjab, the then kingdom of Gandhara with Taxila as the capital, remained under Achaemenid rule till after 4th century BC. However, about three hundred years earlier, one of the 16 Mahajanapadas that […]
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