भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

and they were quick enough to utilize it, for the overthrow of the Greek power. Greek Governors Beheaded 79. Alexander had left behind Nicanor and Philip as the chief representatives of Greeks. When the news of Alexander’s death reached India, the Indians in the republic of the Ashvinis suddenly fell upon the Greek Governor, Philip, and assassinated him along with his small Greek regiment. The second, Nicanor, was also similarly despatched, and all those monarchies and republics along the banks of the Indus, which had acquiesced in the Greek overlordship, shook it off at once and proclaimed their independence forthwith. Greek colonies, Greek ensigns and standards — whatever signified the Greek power — were completely destroyed on the spot. The whole of the tract along the banks of the Indus right from the Panchanad to Sindh, which Alexander had conquered and annexed for ever and anon to his empire, became independent within six months of Alexander’s death. 80. Alexander had conquered states and countries and empires like Greece, Syria, Persia, Babylon, Egypt and the likes. There he founded Greek cities and Greek colonies, and even after the division of his vast empire, just after his death, his governors and military commanders and their descendants, ruled the respective regions like Babylon for centruries, together. Even now in some other countries cities exist with the name Alexandria, and Alexander’s name is ever crowned with the honorifix ‘The Great’ throughout ancient histroy. 81. But what happened in Bharat? The small states and republics in the farthest corner of India, that Alexander had annexed to his empire under the impression that he had conquered them for ever and for ever, after fighting incessantly on various battlefields for two long years and shedding the blood of millions of Greek and Hindu soldiers — those very Indian states and republics and monarchies literally uprooted his power, his standard, the Greek colonies and every hateful sign of the Greek victory — and that too within six months or at the most a year! 82. At last, not to speak of the city of Alexandria, which he had established, his own name too is not to be traced anywhere in Indian history, as if there never was any invasion, any aggression on India’s borderland of any Mlenchh (Yavan) emperor, named Alexander, who dinned the ears of the people throughout Europe with his proud title, ‘The