The Classics and Colonial India

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 ‘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
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. 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
Epilogue: Gandhi, Nehru, Socrates
Bibliography
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