Invaders and Infidels (Book 1): From Sindh to Delhi: The 500-Year Journey of Islamic Invasions

by Sandeep Balakrishna

Hindu kings had largely forgotten what K.M. Munshi calls the ‘Aryavarta Consciousness’ which ‘threw up values and institutions of great vigour and tenacity’3 and for centuries, had enabled them to easily ward off and drive away alien invasions from the time of Alexander, the Bactrian Greeks, the Kushanas, the Sakas and the Huns.