6_Glorious_Epochs_of_Indian_History

124 SIX GLORIOUS EPOCHS OF INDIAN HISTORY
Kashmir, the Punjab and Sindh straight to Kanyakumari,
enjoyed under the Hindu Kings prosperity and happiness for
nearly five hundred years. The whole of Bharat was
independent, powerful, wealthy and happy!
A RESUME OF THE ANCIENT PERIOD
IN INDIAN HISTORY
301-307. If by the Ancient Period in Indian History
we mean the one from B.C. 600 to A.D. 700,—a period as
large as 1300 years—and if the succeeding period is called
the modern, it is in the fitness of things that here and now
should end that period so far as the subject matter of this
book is concerned. Some of the historical points pertaining
to this ancient period—which should very carefully be
impressed on the minds of our young men and women and
the general reader, but which are generally lost sight of, are
briefly dealt with here in this conclusion :
(1) In this ancient period no foreign aggressor could ever
conquer the whole of India at any time. This fact generally
•escapes the notice of good many of the foreigners as of our
own men, while some deliberately neglect it or pervert it.
On reading such titles of Chapters as 'Alexander's Invasion
of India' 'Saka aggression on India", foreign as well as native
readers are generally misled into a belief that the whole of
India was overrun either by Alexander or by the Huns, and
lost its independence. Under this delusion many of the
•enemies of India and her so-called well-wishers have raised
such objections and propounded such theories as to mean
that the whole life of the Indian nation—i.e. the Hindu
nation—has passed imder in foreign slavery. It is to bring
to light and refute this foolish and wicked charge and to
show that it is due to either unintentional ignorance or
wilful malice that such theories are ever propounded, that
this book has been purposely written.
So from the foregoing narration it should be clear that—
(2) Right from Nepal to Eastern Sea (Bay of Bengal)
the whole of northern and eastern India and southern India,