Titlebook: Britain‘s Imperial Muse; The Classics, Imperi C. A. Hagerman Book 2013 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013

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H. Lohse-Busch,M. Kraemer,U. Reime Hope Grant, leader of the approaching relief column.. The Indian courier hid the message in a quill, which he then secreted inside his walking stick. Unsatisfied with this level of security, Outram added another: ancient Greek script. This was not an uncommon ploy. Commenting on the parlous state o

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60504-8ement’, depicting Dionysus/Bacchus riding a tiger.. The scene, like all scenes featuring Dionysus’ feline familiars, alluded to the god’s triumphal return from his conquest of India. That this classical image of India’s first imperial conqueror should be found at the East India Company’s figurative

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Britain‘s Imperial Muse978-1-137-31642-4Series ISSN 2947-7182 Series E-ISSN 2947-7190

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Book 2013Britain‘s Imperial Muse explores the classics‘ contribution to British imperialism and to the experience of empire in India through the long 19th century. It reveals the classics role as a foundational source for positive conceptions of empire and a rhetorical arsenal used by commentators to justify conquest and domination, especially of India.

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137316424Colonialism; India; Classics; Empire; 19th century; Britain; British India; concept; discourse; education; emp

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Introduction,l administrators who can quip in Latin.’. The joke plays on the link between Britain’s elite educational institutions, with their prominent classical curricula, and the empire during its ‘heyday’. To present day sensibilities it is — at risk of understatement — remarkable that the ability to dispens

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