Empires of the Indus by Alice Albinia
Author:Alice Albinia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2008-08-01T16:00:00+00:00
In 2007, local Taliban groups finally took control of Swat, under the direction of Maulana Fazlullah, son-in-law of the radical preacher, Sufi Muhammad. One object of puritanical attack was the last intact Maitreya Buddha: it was dynamited, and its head and shoulders drilled away. The fanatics, then, have largely succeeded in obliterating Swat’s pre-Islamic, Buddhist past.
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Alexander at the Outer Ocean
327 BCE
‘The Indus is bigger than any river in Europe…This was the river which Alexander crossed with his army, and so entered India.’
Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, c. 145 CE
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