Alexander’s Failed India Invasion
https://youtu.be/JPTkqffs3RM
This video provides an alternate view of Alexander’s stint in India. I find it more plausible in comparison with what is more popular as has been taught in the western historical account.
As a student who first read about Alexander’s conquest, I read something to the effect that Alexander’s army was too tired and Alexander decided to call off the war. The account mentions how he was losing trust of his own army which was primarily mercenaries. Alexander himself fell sick and eventually died of infection. I remember saying to my teacher “that doesn’t make sense”. This question has nagged me since.
I find it extremely unlikely that a young ambitious warrior leader who was resolute should give up his campaign unless he was badly beaten and his army mutilated.
A war almost always has casualties on both sides and it is not uncommon for both sides to declare themselves the winner when there isn’t a seize, total surrender or a treaty signed.
In the case of Alexander’s invasion to India, everyone agrees that his army was surprised, they did not understand the terrain nor could handle the elephants and the completely different type of war fare. It is documented that Alexander himself suffered injury and was badly beaten. He died soon there after. In the end, he failed at the border of India!
On the Indian side, there were causal ties as well. But India could not be penetrated.
When I add to this the general attempt of the Western Historians to dub all other civilizations as a bunch of savages ever in the pursuit of human sacrifice, worshiping idols and ridden with superstition, their intention stands questionable. Add to this them completely discounting the advancement in ancient science and technology because they had to justify their interpretation of the Bible, their inaccurate conclusions on several counts becomes rather blatant.
India has several people today asking for a rewrite of history per their own accounts as opposed to the skewed, tainted historical versions that were showed down by the British as they left India. The minorities in India who are the self proclaimed secularists completely confuse history and culture with religion and stand in the way of this much needed rewrite.
The result is, we have a greatly lowered sense of national pride that should ideally stem from the knowledge of ones history.
It is time that history in India be rewritten per what has been told by true Indians.
