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