Alexander’s Battle in India

Some would say that the title of this post should be “Alexander’s Battle in Pakistan”, but at that time Pakistan didnt exist, and probably thats why historians and these guys (no I am not confusing the two, being poles apart) refer to this battle in India. This is the battle that Alexander, having defeated all the empires on the way from Macedonia, including the mighty Darius, fought as he reached the Indian subcontinent. This was the battle he fought against the King Porus (known as Porus to the Greeks, the traditional name being King Purushottam), the king of Paurava. Paurava was the ancient Indian kingdom between the Jhelum and Chenab rivers. Some historians believe that this was a part of the larger Magadha kingdom, but thats a separate debate.

These guys were discussing about this, and this was a sort of continuation of this post. To cut a long…