The classics and colonial India /

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 Grec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vasunia, Phiroze, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Classical presences.
Temas:
1765-1947
British > India > Intellectual life.
Civilization, Classical > Influence.
Britanniques > Inde > Vie intellectuelle.
Civilisation ancienne > Influence.
HISTORY > Asia > India & South Asia.
British > Intellectual life
Civilization
Civilization, Classical > Influence
Civilization > Greek influences
India > Civilization > 1765-1947.
India > Civilization > Greek influences.
Inde > Civilisation > 1765-1947.
India
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""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 Tense""; ""7. Aristophanesâ€? Wealth and Dalpatramâ€?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""; ""Epilogue: Gandhi, Nehru, Socrates""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""
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