Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Introduction
Part One: Alexander in India
1: Dreams of Alexander
2: Sikandar and the History of India
Part Two: Caesar in Peccavistan
3: Greater Rome and Greater Britain
4: Visions of Antiquity: Architecture and the Classical Style
5: Competitionwallahs: Greek, Latin, and the Indian Civil Service
Part Three: Co-operation and Liberation
6: Homer and Virgil
7: Aristophanes Wealth and Dalpatram s Lakshmi
8: Athens in Calcutta: Derozio, Dutt, and the Bengal Renaissance
Epilogue: Gandhi, Nehru, Socrates
Bibliography

About the Author

Phiroze Vasunia is a Professor of Classics at the University of Reading.

Reviews

Janusz Holyst, Warsaw University of Technology