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Author Vasunia, Phiroze, 1966- author.

Title The classics and colonial India / Phiroze Vasunia
Edition First edition
Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2013
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 398 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour))
Series Classical presences
Classical presences.
Contents Part I. Alexander in India -- Dreams of Alexander -- Two visions of empire: Droysen and Grote -- Geographies of donquest -- In the footsteps of Alexander -- Kafiristan -- Sikandar and the history of India -- Writing the history of India -- From Alexander to Sikandar -- Part II. Caesar in Peccavistan -- Greater Rome and Greater Britain -- De imperiis -- Charles Dilke and John Seeley -- Rome and the empire -- A 'natural' comparison -- Visions of antiquity: architecture and the classical style -- Tropical classical -- Theorizing colonial architecture -- Competition-wallahs: Greek, Latin, and the Indian Civil Service -- The East India Company's Training College at Haileybury -- The mid-century reform -- The open competition -- Oxford, greats, and the ICS -- Indians and the open competition -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The examinations -- Part III. Co-Operation and Liberation -- Homer and Virgil -- Homer in India -- Virgil in late eighteenth-century Britain -- Virgil in nineteenth-century Britain -- History in the future tense -- Aristophanes' Wealth and Dalpatram's Lakshmi -- A Gujarati translation of Aristophanes -- The dontext of colonial Gujarat -- Athens in Calcutta: Derozio, Dutt, and the Bengal Renaissance -- Henry Louis Vivian Derozio -- Michael Madhusudan Dutt -- Athens in Calcutta
Summary This extraordinary book provides a detailed account of the relationship between classical antiquity and the British colonial presence in India. It examines some of the great figures of the colonial period such as Gandhi, Nehru, Macaulay, Jowett, and William Jones, and covers a range of different disciplines as it sweeps from the eighteenth century to the end of the British Raj in the twentieth. Using a variety of materials, including archival documents and familiar texts, Vasunia shows how classical culture pervaded the thoughts and minds of the British colonizers. His book highlights the many Indian receptions of Greco-Roman antiquity and analyses how Indians turned to ancient Greece and Rome during the colonial period for a variety of purposes, including anti-colonialism, nationalism, and collaboration
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject British -- India -- Intellectual life
Civilization, Classical -- Influence
HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
British -- Intellectual life
Civilization
Civilization, Classical -- Influence
Civilization -- Greek influences
SUBJECT India -- Civilization -- 1765-1947. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064875
India -- Civilization -- Greek influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064878
Subject India
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191626074
0191626074
9780191746598
0191746592