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The '''Agalassoi''' were a dignified, illustrious and powerful tribe that lived in modern ] in the lower ] at the time of ]. During Alexander's invasion of India, the Agalassoi faught bravely in battle with the Macedonian army. The citizen infantry, numbering about 40,000 and 2,000 cavalry<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/The_Anabasis_of_Alexander|title=The Anabasis of Alexander|last=Greak historian|first=Arrian|publisher=1884|year=|isbn=|location=|pages=|translator-last=Chinnock|translator-first=E.J.}}</ref> after a brave resistance to Alexander, cast themselves with their wives and children into flames, the first known ] in Indian history. They have been identified as Agarwals of today.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Agarwal jaati ka itihaas|last=Gupta|first=Parameshwari Lal|publisher=|year=|isbn=|location=|pages=}}</ref> The '''Agalassoi''' were a dignified, illustrious and powerful tribe that lived in modern ] in the lower ] at the time of ]. During Alexander's invasion of India, the Agalassoi fought bravely in battle with the Macedonian army. The citizen infantry, numbering about 40,000 and 2,000 cavalry<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/The_Anabasis_of_Alexander|title=The Anabasis of Alexander|last=Greak historian|first=Arrian|publisher=1884|year=|isbn=|location=|pages=|translator-last=Chinnock|translator-first=E.J.}}</ref> after a brave resistance to Alexander, cast themselves with their wives and children into flames, the first known ] in Indian history. They have been identified as Agarwals of today.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Agarwal jaati ka itihaas|last=Gupta|first=Parameshwari Lal|publisher=|year=|isbn=|location=|pages=}}</ref>


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The Agalassoi were a dignified, illustrious and powerful tribe that lived in modern Pakistan in the lower Indus Valley at the time of Alexander the Great. During Alexander's invasion of India, the Agalassoi fought bravely in battle with the Macedonian army. The citizen infantry, numbering about 40,000 and 2,000 cavalry after a brave resistance to Alexander, cast themselves with their wives and children into flames, the first known Jauhar and Sākā in Indian history. They have been identified as Agarwals of today.

References

  1. Greak historian, Arrian. The Anabasis of Alexander. Translated by Chinnock, E.J. 1884.
  2. Gupta, Parameshwari Lal. Agarwal jaati ka itihaas.
  • Battacharya, Sachchidananda. A Dictionary of Indian History (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1977) p. 10.
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