INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Chandragupta Maurya was the founder of the Maurya Empire. He has thrown the Greeks out of India. He defeated Seleucus Nicator, a Greek general of Alexander. Chandragupta Maurya fought a war between Seleucus Nicator from 305 to 303 BCE.

Detailed explanation-2: -The wealth of the rajas attracted the army of Alexander the Great, a young Greek general who amassed the largest empire of his era. Shortly after Alexander’s death in 323BCE, a young soldier of a low caste named Chandragupta Maurya led a rebellion that drove out the Greek invaders.

Detailed explanation-3: -Chandragupta defeated and conquered both the Nanda Empire and the Greek satraps that were appointed or formed from Alexander’s Empire in South Asia.

Detailed explanation-4: -This established Mauryan control to the banks of the Indus. Chandragupta’s victories convinced Seleucus that he needed to secure his eastern flank. Seeking to hold the Macedonian territories there, Seleucus thus came into conflict with the emerging and expanding Mauryan Empire over the Indus Valley.

Detailed explanation-5: -Narain believed that the Persians exiled a number of Greeks to the eastern corners of their empire, where these Greeks intermarried with Persians and established their own settlements. These were the ‘Bactrian Greeks’, known to Indians as ‘Yavanas’.