INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The invasion of northern India, and the establishment of what would be known as the “Indo-Greek kingdom", started around 200 BCE when Demetrius, son of the Greco-Bactrian king Euthydemus I, led his troops across the Hindu Kush.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Greek invasion of India took place in 326 BC under Aexander the Great when he crossed the river Indus and advanced into the Punjab. He then challenged king Porus, ruler of the kingdom between the rivers Jhelum and Chenab.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Indo-Greek kingdom was ruled by over 30 Hellenistic (Greek) kings in the northwest and north India from the 2nd century BC to the beginning of the first century AD. The kingdom started when Graeco-Bactrian king Demetrius (son of Euthydemus I) invaded India around 180 BC.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Greek geographer Herodotus (5th century BC) describes India, calling it (Roman transliteration: hē Hindikē chōrē, meaning “the Indian land"), after Hinduš, the Old Persian name of the Indus river and its inhabitants, the associated satrapy of Sindh in the Achaemenid Empire.