ABSTRACT
Alexander’s conquest doubtless brought in its train the introduction of Greek culture and art into Bactria and North-West India. Many towns were rearranged and peopled by ex-service Greek and Macedonian mercenaries, who married the native women and thus changed the population to one of mixed nationalities but of Greek civilization. In Bactria the Indians were ultimately subdued by the Greeks, after having achieved a short period of successful opposition to the newcomers’ rule, but Grecian supremacy was finally destroyed by the attacks of the Parthians and Sam about 130 b.c. After the Sam came the Kushans, who established a great empire embracing the district of the Indus as well as part of Bactria and of East and Western Turkestan.
