Papers on Alexander’s military conquests and the influence of the Greeks on Iran and India mark the second session of the Indo-Hellenic seminar
Mehroo Kotval
When Alexander of Macedonia defeated King Porus the ancient Indian ruler, at the Battle of Vitasta in 326 BCE, all of India lay before the Greek warrior to conquer. "The army (was) poised to take not only the remainder of Punjab, but also the Ganga valley and with it the whole of Hindustan,” stated Daniel Seldon, professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He was addressing the session on ‘Conflict and Co-existence: Alexander’s Legacy in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands’ at the K. R. Cama Oriental Institute on January 19, 2013. This was the second of five sessions......