The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location

Indian Kingdoms

Also known as Hindustan, Bharat

  • region
  • ancient Indian

The distant kingdoms of India, invoked as the eastern horizon of Persian, Hunnic, and later commercial geography. Gibbon treats them as a cluster of rich realms rather than a single state, source of spices and exotic report.

Type
region
Style
ancient Indian
First appears
Book 1 · Ch. 184
Books
1

History

  1. BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)

    The distant kingdoms of India, invoked as the eastern horizon of Persian, Hunnic, and later commercial geography. Gibbon treats them as a cluster of rich realms rather than a single state, source of spices and exotic report.

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