The Classics and Colonial India

by Phiroze Vasunia

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199203237
• ISBN13: 9780199203239
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"