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The classics and colonial India / Phiroze Vasunia.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Classical presencesPublication details: Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press, 2013.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 398 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some color) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199203239 (hbk.)
  • 0199203237 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954.03 VAS 23 007104
LOC classification:
  • DS463 .V38 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: pt. 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 pt. II CAESAR IN PECCAVISTAN 3.Greater Rome and Greater Britain De imperiis Charles Dilke and John Seeley Rome and the Empire A `Natural' 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 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 pt. III CO-OPERATION AND LIBERATION 6.Homer and Virgil Homer in India Contents note continued: Virgil in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain Virgil in Nineteenth-Century Britain History in the Future Tense 7.Aristophanes' Wealth and Dalpatram's Lakshmi A Gujarati Translation of Aristophanes The Context of Colonial Gujarat 8.Athens in Calcutta: Derozio, Dutt, and the Bengal Renaissance Henry Louis Vivian Derozio Michael Madhusudan Dutt Athens in Calcutta.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-382) and index.

Machine generated contents note: pt. 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
pt. II CAESAR IN PECCAVISTAN
3.Greater Rome and Greater Britain
De imperiis
Charles Dilke and John Seeley
Rome and the Empire
A `Natural' 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 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
pt. III CO-OPERATION AND LIBERATION
6.Homer and Virgil
Homer in India
Contents note continued: Virgil in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain
Virgil in Nineteenth-Century Britain
History in the Future Tense
7.Aristophanes' Wealth and Dalpatram's Lakshmi
A Gujarati Translation of Aristophanes
The Context of Colonial Gujarat
8.Athens in Calcutta: Derozio, Dutt, and the Bengal Renaissance
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Athens in Calcutta.

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