Ancient Indian History

Greek Writers

DariusIndia figures in his foreign inscriptions
CtesianGot Info of India from through the Persian sources.
HerodotusIn his “Histories” gives us much information about Indo-Persian relations
ArrianDetailed account of the invasion of India by Alexander on the basis of information from those who accompanied the campaign.
AnonymousBook: “Periplus of the Erythrean Sea” by an anonymous author, who was a Greek, settled in Egypton the basis of his personal voyage of Indian coast in about A.D.80. He gives valuable information about the Indian coasts.
PtolemyWrote a geographical treatise on India in the second century A.D.