Classics and Colonial India

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Offering a unique cross-cultural study, this text 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.

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Full title :Classics and Colonial India.

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Publication Date:2013.

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Publisher(s):Oxford Scholarship Online
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:1306270642, 9781306270649, 9780191746598, 0191746592
oclc:ocn867075833
LC Classification:DS428
Dewey Decimal:954

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Plates""; ""Introduction""; ""PART I. ALEXANDER IN INDIA""; ""1. Dreams of Alexander""; ""Two Visions of Empire: Droysen and Grote""; ""Geographies of Conquest""; ""In the Footsteps of Alexander""; ""Kafiristan""; ""2. Sikandar and the History of India""; ""Writing the History of India""; ""From Alexander to Sikandar""; ""PART II. CAESAR IN PECCAVISTAN""; ""3. Greater Rome and Greater Britain""; ""De imperiis""; ""Charles Dilke and John Seeley""; ""Rome and the Empire""; ""A â€?Naturalâ€? Comparison""

""4. Visions of Antiquity: Architecture and the Classical Style""""Tropical Classical""; ""Theorizing Colonial Architecture""; ""5. Competitionwallahs: Greek, Latin, and the Indian Civil Service""; ""The East India Companyâ€?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""; ""6. Homer and Virgil""; ""Homer in India""; ""Virgil in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain""

""Virgil in Nineteenth-Century Britain""""History in the Future Te…

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Britanniques -- Vie intellectuelle -- I… British -- Intellectual life British -- Intellectual life -- India Civilisation ancienne -- Influence Civilization Civilization -- Greek influences Civilization, Classical -- Influence Inde -- Civilisation -- 1765-1947 India India -- Civilization India -- Civilization -- 1765-1947