Author: MOHAN, MEHTA VASISHTHA DEV; BASHAM, DR. ARTHUR LLEWELLYN (FOREWORD)
Title: The North-West India of the Second Century B.C.
Description: Ludhiana, India: Indological Research Institute, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. xxiv, 315 pp. Complete with all five fold-out maps. VII black and white plates of numismatic coins and their monograms. "I am very glad that yet another Indian scholar has taken up the subject of the Indo-Greeks. Dr. Mohan's analysis brings to bear upon it a fresh approach and new interpretations. I commend his study to all students of the subject." - Foreword. Chapters include: North-West India or the Uttarapatha; The Peoples; Introduction to the Greco-Sunga Period; The Bactrian Greeks; Demetrius; Rise of the Sungas; Eukratides and his Successors; Menander; Menander's Successors. Unmarked with average wear to publisher's brown cloth. New pastedowns appear to have been applied inside each board, extending almost an inch onto free endpapers thus bolstering the hinges. A sound copy of this valuable reference.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; The North-West India of The Second Century B.C. Greek Occupation Bactrian Greeks Mauryan Empire Indo-Greeks Coins Numismatic Greco-Sunga Uttarapatha Bactrian Demetrius Eukratides Menander. Good .

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