The Gates of India: Being an Historical Narrative

CONTENTS

PAGE
Introduction	1
CHAPTER I
Early Relations between East and West—Greece and Persia and Early Tribal Distributions on the Indian Frontier	11
CHAPTER II
Assyria and Afghanistan—Ancient Land Routes—Possible Sea Routes	39
CHAPTER III
Greek Exploration—Alexander—Modern Balkh—The Balkh Plain and Baktria	58
CHAPTER IV
Greek Exploration—Alexander—The Kabul Valley Gates	94
CHAPTER V
Greek Exploration—The Western Gates	135
CHAPTER VI
Chinese Explorations—The Gates of the North	169
CHAPTER VII
MediÆval Geography—Seistan and Afghanistan	190
CHAPTER VIII
Arab Exploration—The Gates of Makran	284
CHAPTER IX
Earliest English Exploration—Christie and Pottinger	325
CHAPTER X
American Exploration—Masson—The Nearer Gates, Baluchistan and Afghanistan	344
CHAPTER XI
American Exploration—Masson (continued)—The Nearer Gates, Baluchistan and Afghanistan	390
CHAPTER XII
Lord and Wood—The Farther Gates, Badakshan and the Oxus	411
CHAPTER XIII
Across Afghanistan to Bokhara—Moorcroft	442
CHAPTER XIV
Across Afghanistan to Bokhara—Burnes	451
CHAPTER XV
The Gates of Ghazni—Vigne	462
CHAPTER XVI
The Gates of Ghazni—Broadfoot	470
CHAPTER XVII
French Exploration—Ferrier	476
CHAPTER XVIII
Summary	500
INDEX	531

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