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The ‘Classics’ in India: Unseen Presence, Cloaked Authority

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The ‘Classics’ in India: Unseen Presence, Cloaked Authority (EN)
Trivedi, Harish
The classics were taught not only in the West but also all over the colonised world –except in India, probably because India was acknowledged to have foundational classics of its own written in a language which was proclaimed by Western scholars to be fully a match of Greek and Latin. However, an earlier connection between Greece and India that began in 326 BCE with the aborted attempt by Alexander the Great to conquer India left enduring cultural traces which have been explored by creative writers and scholars alike. In the hey-day of British rule in India, the British governors and civil servants, who were themselves steeped in classical education, often fashioned themselves on the model of Pax Romana, so that the absence in India of a direct classical education was still not exempt from a pervasive classical penumbra. (EN)
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Indian academic institutions (EN)
classics (EN)
cultural nationalism (EN)
murty classical library of India (EN)
postcolonial literature (EN)
sanskrit (EN)
india (EN)
British rule of India (EN)
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - Department of English Language and Literature
Synthesis
Articles
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English
2020-11-08
https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/synthesis/article/view/25257
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EN)
1791-5155
Synthesis: an Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies; No. 12 (2019): Recomposed: Anglophone Presences of Classical Literature; 42-54 (EN)
Copyright (c) 2020 Harish Trivedi (EN)
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