![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is difficult to believe: IMO no noble king would accept his kingdom back after being defeated.Īlso claimed there: "Exhausted and frightened by the prospect of facing another giant Indian army at the Ganges River, his army mutinied at the Hyphasis (modern Beas), refusing to march further East. ![]() This link from wikipedia says that "After victory, Alexander made an alliance with Porus and appointed him as satrap of his own kingdom". Many of Internet links claim that Porus was defeated by Alexander, then he returned to Greece, giving back the Kingdom to Porus. In BC 327 Alexander came to India, and tried to cross the Jhelum river for the invasion, but was then confronted by King Purushottama (King Porus, according to the English rendition.) According to Indian history he was stopped by Porus at his entry into the country, but most of the world still believes that Alexander won the battle. Her poems have been translated into Spanish and Urdu.Alexander conquered most parts of the Western World, but there is a great deal of controversy over his invasion of India. She has been published in Prairie Schooner , Poetry International, The Cortland Review, Vallum, Atlanta Review, Journal of Postcolonial Writings , and other journals worldwide. She has won the San Diego Book Award for poetry, the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Prize, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize multiple times. ~ Shadab Zeest Hashmi is the author of Kohl & Chalk and Baker of Tarifa. The municipal rubbish van, raiding fruit-stalls To refuse food from the raj, to take beatingsįrom Colonel Sanders, to court a slow, droopingįor destroying a bamboo hut, turning over Took the boat by the backdoor, Red Fort to Rangoon Of poetry and of the master who was poet first Offering each body part as a wildly whole factĮlephant who held his emperor in the innermost chamber Rattling the Hydaspes battlefield in captive chainsĮlephant alone in the dark with a hunger for truth, (more charming than Homer’s catalogue of ships)Īlong with seventy-nine others from Porus’s army, Memsahibs, stun guns, massive palace doors Of light, trampled peasants, mahawat’s pumice, dimpled Riot of silk howdahs, hunting fevers, festivals Sprinkling rosewater in a Mughal court scene, The lies of empire turning your syntax blueĮlephant with emerald eyes on a studded copper plate Heard the rattle of skulls in your tambourine, ![]()
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