Sind was a province of Persians in 500 BC, but not in their possession even when Alexander invaded India in 326 BC. He came here to annex this province to prove that he was the greatest of all the great kings then known. It was mainly his ego that ultimately drove him into an adventure of disastrous consequences.
His conquest was a total failure reports F. A. Wright “Nine hundred miles down the Indus took nine months that involved hard fighting and then came the march through Gedrosian desert the most terrific journeys that any army has ever attempted”
Sind became almost a deserted land because of the changed courses of Sarasvati & Sindu when the ancient Sarasvati disappeared around 1900 BC in Rajasthan, near Ghagger. All the scientific observations carried by BARC, ISRO, Rajasthan water Board, Geological Survey of India State that Sind, is an extension of Thur desert of Rajasthan and was almost the same in 326 BC as it is today.
Gen. John Abbott IAS in 1924 visited Sind and had occasion to go through almost each and every aspect of the territory where he found large ancient settlements, well developed but left abandoned long ago. He reported to the British Govt. to take a through survey of these settlements (Mohenjo-Daro, Harappa, Kalibanga, Banavli, Rupal Etc.).
Gen. Abbot had seen skeletons of men and animals lay burried by the banks of Sindu, who appeared to have died for want of food, fodder and water. How many years rolled, storms shriked along spreading sands over the dead, he wondered.
This is how we now come to know why Alexander and his army may be about a lac men with their animals (horses) perished in the hostile sands of Sind for want of food and water and hot pursuit of Indians.
Alexander was fortunate enough to reach the coast of Makran and left with the remaining forces on 25.10.325 BC with scattered, starved men.
Nearchus, his admiral reports – As soon as armies of Alexander reached the lower Sind than they had to face the stiff opposition, resistance of the Brahmin republic Because of the hostile population. Alexander was forced to leave Sind Soon.
Would you still call him a world conqueror ?
Arun Nigudkar
His conquest was a total failure reports F. A. Wright “Nine hundred miles down the Indus took nine months that involved hard fighting and then came the march through Gedrosian desert the most terrific journeys that any army has ever attempted”
Sind became almost a deserted land because of the changed courses of Sarasvati & Sindu when the ancient Sarasvati disappeared around 1900 BC in Rajasthan, near Ghagger. All the scientific observations carried by BARC, ISRO, Rajasthan water Board, Geological Survey of India State that Sind, is an extension of Thur desert of Rajasthan and was almost the same in 326 BC as it is today.
Gen. John Abbott IAS in 1924 visited Sind and had occasion to go through almost each and every aspect of the territory where he found large ancient settlements, well developed but left abandoned long ago. He reported to the British Govt. to take a through survey of these settlements (Mohenjo-Daro, Harappa, Kalibanga, Banavli, Rupal Etc.).
Gen. Abbot had seen skeletons of men and animals lay burried by the banks of Sindu, who appeared to have died for want of food, fodder and water. How many years rolled, storms shriked along spreading sands over the dead, he wondered.
This is how we now come to know why Alexander and his army may be about a lac men with their animals (horses) perished in the hostile sands of Sind for want of food and water and hot pursuit of Indians.
Alexander was fortunate enough to reach the coast of Makran and left with the remaining forces on 25.10.325 BC with scattered, starved men.
Nearchus, his admiral reports – As soon as armies of Alexander reached the lower Sind than they had to face the stiff opposition, resistance of the Brahmin republic Because of the hostile population. Alexander was forced to leave Sind Soon.
Would you still call him a world conqueror ?
Arun Nigudkar
