Study of History - Maulana Kausar Niazi

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STANDARD OF ARYAN HISTORY
tion to the coming generations about these areas
and have given a prominent place in their diaries
to the conditions and events in this country. The
books of Strabo and Arian have been published
I and they give us an idea of the phases through
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which the history of these areas was passing.
Robson claims that the deficiencies
in the historical documents of this period
were more than made up by the above-mentioned
diaries .
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The famoushistorian Vincent Smith has made
it clear that if we compare the contemporary
Indian writings with those of the Greek historians
who came before, alongwith and after Alexander
theGreat,the latter certainly gain more in import-
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ance and worth .
Professor Robson has also mentioned some
of the Western historians who came to India after
the death of Alexander during the period of
Gupta and his successors. Robson also
says that some Indian historians in this period
wrote about some Persian and Greek kings and
recorded the events of their own time as well
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of the past period .
5. Cambridge History of India I* 59-60.
6. Pannikar, op. cit., p 8.
7 . Cambridge History of India , I, 60 .
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