INTRODUCTION ILess remote than China, bathed by an ocean which bore the fleets of Egypt, Chaldsea, Persia, Greece and Rome, India was never beyond the reach of the Western Nations. The Assyrians, the Persians, and the Greeks carried their arms into the basin of the Indus, some portions of which were annexed for a time to those Empires which had their centre in the valley of the Euphrates and stretched westwards as far as the Mediterranean. There was a continuous coming and going of the caravans across the plateau of Iran and the deserts which lie between it and the oases of Bactriana, Aria and Arachosia and through the passes which lead down to what is now called the Punjab ; between the ports of the Arabian and Persian Gulfs and those of the Lower Indus and the Malabar Coast, continual commercial movement went on, which though fluctuating with time, was never entirely interrupted. "Nous savons," writes M. Gustave le Bon, in his celebrated work "Les Monuments de l'Inde", "que dTable of Contents BOOK I; Introduction ]; Bibliography 27; BOOK II; THE HELLENISTIC INFLUENCE ON THE ART OF INDIA; CHAPTER I,; ARCHITECTURE; Section /-Land and People : Indian Architecture : The theory of its probable native origin : The discovery of Graeco-Bud-dhist Architecture in the Peshawar Valley 31; Section //-The Geographical distribution of the Grseco-Bud-dhist Art The Gandhara region Sir M Stein's Discoveries in Chinese Turkestan ,, 39; Section III-The Age of the Grzeco-Buddhistic School Is the Influence traceable to Indian Art, Greek or Roman ? 50; Section IV-The supposed Persepolitan influence : The Indianisa-tioh of the Classical motive True extent of the Hellenistic influence 57; Bibliography 7°; CHAPTER II SCULPTURE; Sedtion /-Post-Buddhist and Pre-Gandhara Sculptures The Graeco-Buddhist Sculptures of Gandhara : the "Ekacnnga" Statue and the Bacchic Episodes 73; Section //-The Relic-casket of Kanishka : the Hel