Mention the most significant effects of Alexander's invasion in 326 BC.
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By subjugating the small kingdoms and tribes existing in Punjab and Sindh, Alexander paved the way for Chandragupta to provide political unity to India. The unified rule in Punjab and Sindh was one of the immediate direct result, of Alexander’s invasion.
One of the most important gains of Alexander’s invasion was that the Greeks left dated records of Alexander’s Indian campaign which has greatly helped in building chronology for the subsequent political events with certainty.
In fact Alexander’s invasion forms the sheet-anchor of Indian chronology. The works of the Greek writers, though now not available in original, have been frequently quoted by the subsequent writers and are a useful source of information about the early Indian history.
However, certain scholars have expressed the view that the above cultural effects were not due to Alexander’s campaign but due to Indo-Parthians and Indo-Bactrian’s who settled on the borders of India. These scholars have tried to under-estimate the effects of Alexander’s campaign.