Megasthenes (Μεγασθένης, ca. 350 – 290 BCE) was the first foreign Ambassador to India and recorded his ethnographic observations in a volume known as INDIKA. For his pioneering work he is regarded as the Father of Indian History. The term “Indika” (Greek Ινδικά) was used in ancient Greece to mean various India-related things, including the …
THE GREEKS IN BACTRIA & INDIA
by W. W. TARN LITT.D., F.B.A., Hon. LL.D. (Edinburgh) Cambridge 1938 This is the first published study on the Greek kingdoms of Bactria and India. The book begins with an overview of the Seleucid settlement, providing a background to the relations between Greeks and Bactrians and Indians after the death of Alexander the Great. Covering …