Why Alexander did not invade India?

After a long trip alexander's army rufused to going forward

I dont know the real reason

What you think?

 

Considering that he had to struggle with Porus who was a chieftan of a relatively small kingdom, facing the Nandas in Central India would have become way to big of a challenge. Also India put huge amounts of resistance against the greeks.

You missed Itihaas's point. What he was trying to say was that the central Indian kingdoms were willing to put up a big fight against Alexander (eg the Nandas). Alexander�s men would have no intention of loosing their lives so far away from home when they had already won large amounts of wealth from their previous wars (like Yiannis said).

I still think that he wouldn�t have succeeded his conquest of India for the reasons in the two treads Yiannis has posted.

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Originally posted by Paul Also, mediteranians hate spicy food.

 How true! I still remember my first time in an Indian restaurant, when the waiter asked me this dreadfull question (light, medium or hot sauce, sir?) I was foolish and unsuspecting enough to answer: "medium please".  The rest is history!

In that case Alexander would have been creammed when if he went to south India. Our food is far spicier than any north Indian....

Originally posted by Paul His army would have starved to death in Sri Lanka

I doubt he could even have made it that far, he would have got really sick with all those jungle diseases.

 

Originally posted by Zagros Purya Didn't King Poros (sp?) defeat him?

Nope but Alexander said that that was his hardest battle ever. The thing is that a chieftan of a tiny nation putting so much resistance, fighting a larger kingdom like the Nandas, Alexander had no chance...

In fact at one point the Indian soldiers drafted into Alexander's army mutinied, and men women and children all fought the mighty Macedonian army, but were all killed. The thing is though that like a suicide bomb they took as many people down with them, and it really affected the psyche of the Alexander's army.

Also even if Alexander went deeper into India, Chanakya who was becoming more powerful may have united a few Indian states to counter the macedonian army. He had allies in a few kingdoms, I remember that Nepal and Gandhara were his allies. Anyway Chanakya's fighting strategies were dangerous for the time as it took a heavy toll on the Selucid Empire later on.

Porus was just a small king of a tiny state 60 miles across. He was also not like by many who helped Alex. Their were far too many states Alex would have had  to fight to reach the Nandas. His army rebelled because of the following :

1. Loss / Truce with prous
2. The heavy losses suffered by the greek army, something they hadn't been exposed to even though they won agains a persia, egypt who were huge empires.
3. The tiny status of porus in the Indian polity. (If a small porus can do this, what would the beigger ones do)
4. Too many states too fight to the nanda kingdom,
5. Rebellion by the Indian soldiers in the Freek army, which did another round of great destruction to the greeks.
6. Greeks had the military support of Ambhi against Porus, but nobody to support them furhter. Ambhi was only interested in a revenge with porus.
7. Tales (may be exaggerated) of the strength of the Nanda army.

Informative & Good articles.

or other reason could be that he found indians smelly, which is most likely lol