Offering a unique cross-cultural study, this book provides a detailed account of the relationship between classical antiquity and the British colonial presence in India. Vasunia shows how classical culture pervaded the minds of the British colonizers, and highlights the many Indian receptions of Greco-Roman antiquity.
Offering a unique cross-cultural study, this book provides a detailed account of the relationship between classical antiquity and the British colonial presence in India. Vasunia shows how classical culture pervaded the minds of the British colonizers, and highlights the many Indian receptions of Greco-Roman antiquity.
Phiroze Vasunia, Reader in Classics and School Director of Research at Reading University
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Acknowledgements Illustrations Introduction Part One: Alexander in India 1: Dreams of Alexander 2: Sikandar and the History of India Part Two: Caesar in Peccavistan 3: Greater Rome and Greater Britain 4: Visions of Antiquity: Architecture and the Classical Style 5: Competitionwallahs: Greek, Latin, and the Indian Civil Service Part Three: Co-operation and Liberation 6: Homer and Virgil 7: Aristophanes Wealth and Dalpatram s Lakshmi 8: Athens in Calcutta: Derozio, Dutt, and the Bengal Renaissance Epilogue: Gandhi, Nehru, Socrates Bibliography
Acknowledgements Illustrations Introduction Part One: Alexander in India 1: Dreams of Alexander 2: Sikandar and the History of India Part Two: Caesar in Peccavistan 3: Greater Rome and Greater Britain 4: Visions of Antiquity: Architecture and the Classical Style 5: Competitionwallahs: Greek, Latin, and the Indian Civil Service Part Three: Co-operation and Liberation 6: Homer and Virgil 7: Aristophanes Wealth and Dalpatram s Lakshmi 8: Athens in Calcutta: Derozio, Dutt, and the Bengal Renaissance Epilogue: Gandhi, Nehru, Socrates Bibliography
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