The Greeks in Bactria & India

Asia under Greek rule, as matter of political history and not of distinctions of race or civilisation, may be divided into three parts. The first division consists of the countries west of the Euphrates and of the Syrian desert, Asia Minor and Syria, which were to become Roman and were for centuries to be dominated by Graceo-Roman civilisation. The second division roughly speaking consists of the countries between the Euphrates and Persian desert, the third division is Farther East, comprises Iran east of the Persian desert and India so far as it was under Greek rule. This book is really concerned only with the farther east, the story of eastern Iran, and northern India under Greek rule.