Ancient Indians extreme resentment of the Greeks

Could also be the fact that the Greek priests were not a particular cast on their own and their role was much less significant that in other neighboring cultures.

Originally posted by Sparten Since Ashoka was 2/3rds Greek and a lot of Greeks lived in the Mauryan Empire.

Is it really proved that he was any part Greek. The arguments are pretty conjectural. I am not aware that there are any direct references anywhere which say that he was any any part Greek.

I wonder if maybe Indian historians weren't using the word "Greek" to describe anyone who lived west of Pakistan. Just as Westerners used "Indian" to describe anyone east of Persia. In Helenistic times it would not be a wholly inaccurate label, and it would certainly be fair to say that "Greeks" did not follow the way of the Brahmans.

chandragupt morya was the great king who defeated the greeks comprihansively

What I could understand is that both Indians and Greeks were the same people.

The fact of parallel discoveries & invention is true. New World, Antarctic, Oceania etc.. were discovered as far as the Westerners were considered.BUt many other people knew these lands much earlier.
Pyhtogorus theoram & trignometry was knows to the Indians & Chinese much earlier than it was invented in the west. Same for Zero & calculas & the atomic theory. The theory of quantum physics also finds mention. Radio was discovered by Jagdishchandra Bose earlier but marconi is credited with the discovery.

Anyway coming back to the topic,  There was no contempt whatsoever amongst the Indians for the Greeks.  
The animosity amongst the Indians for the Greeks was a result of Alexander's failed & aborted invasion of northwestern peripheral Indian city states.  After that Chanakya fought one war with the Greeks defeating Selucas, wherein Selucas was made to give his beautiful daughter in marriage to Chandragupta, along with a retinue of female servants & her friends While Chanakya gave the Greeks 500 trained war elephants  to  help them to fight off the rising rebellions  in their  territories.

Thus Ashok can be said to be partly Greek

Even Chanakya did not have any contempt for the Greeks. He admired them for their conquests.

The fact that the Greeks were respected by the Indians can be seen in numerous artefacts which have a clear Greek influence resulting from the fact that the Indian empress herself was Greek. Further a Greek mother would definitly ensure that some of the Greek influence passes on to the progeny.

Why would the Indians go against there own popular queen of a very popular king?

Later also the relations between Greeks & Indians were very cordial as they both benefitted mututally from each other. Ever since the Eastern frontier was secured for the Greeks (& western frontier for the Indians), the Greeks were able to concentrate their forces on the inner rebellions & crush them (the 500 well trained war elephants may also have helped a lot)

Infact in later periods there are references like "As beautiful as a Greek princess" & in several places, giving credance to the popularity of the Selucas's daughter & "Gracious as Greek Maidens" maybe referring to the retinue of  the friends of Selucas's daughter who had come with her.

Please do not get swayed away by the title of the thread. Indians never had any contempt for Greeks, niether do they have anything similiar now.

Bad logic. On one hand you say Indians had contempt for Greeks, on the other you say One of the most powerful Indian emperors of all time & certainly much more powerful than Selucas gave his daughter in marriage to him. If Indians had contempt for Greeks, how would they give their daughter to him? Chandragupta was a popular emperor. He would'nt have been popular if he gave his daughter to a so called impure community. And lastly Chandragupta was unmarried while going to the war. It is famous because of the dialogue between Chandragupta & his mentor Chanakya, Where Chanakya asks his student  "What do you stand to loose, even if you loose the war? You have no family of your own, As for you mother, she had surrendered you to me long back. So you have only your life to be lost & that belongs to me" Ashoka was not Greek. He was Indian.  One of his ancestors was a Greek.

I think the claims of Ashoka having some Greek heritage are a bit off the mark.  The 'marriage alliance' between Chandragupta and Seleucus is said to have taken place around 305 BC.  Chandragupta's successor and Ashoka's father, Bindusara was born around 320 BC, so he'd have been a teenager when this Greek princess is said to have been betrothed to the Maurya dynasty.  The whole episode is thoroughly confusing.  It's assumed that the princess came from the Greek side because there are no Greek records of an Indian princess, but the Mauryans, being horrible chroniclers like so many Indian rulers, have no record of the marriage at all.  

Bilal Ali, could you please give me the Indian texts containing this context and where I could have a look as well? I'm interrested in the indo-greek contacts and need to have a more spherical view.