: How a pioneering Greek scholar was robbed of the credit for translating Chanakya’s words in Sanskrit #IndiaNEWS In 1786, Dimitrios Galanos, a 26-year-old Greek teacher boarded a ship in Basra for

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How a pioneering Greek scholar was robbed of the credit for translating Chanakya’s words in Sanskrit #IndiaNEWS
In 1786, Dimitrios Galanos, a 26-year-old Greek teacher boarded a ship in Basra for Calcutta in search of a new life. A few months before, the young man who was formally educated in Ancient Greek, Latin, philosophy and music, had been galvanised by a chance encounter with a merchant in Constantinople. The merchant, one Madratzoglou, had extensive ties with the 200-strong Greek community that had settled in Bengal by the 1780s in places such as Narayanganj, Dhaka and Calcutta.“Madratzoglou found him ideal for tutoring the children of the Greek merchants who had settled in Narayanganj (near Dhaka) and Calcutta and offered him a position as a teacher there,� wrote Dimitrios Vassiliadis, a noted Greek Indologist and Sanskrit and Hindi scholar, in 2020 for the Hellenic-Indian Society for Culture and Development. “Galanos, eager to expand his knowledge, gladly accepted Madratzoglou’s offer and prepared himself for his journey to the East; ‘…to carry the torch of the paternal education to the Greeks in India, and to send back from there to Hellas a few sparks of the ‘light of Asia’.’�After six months, Galanos reached India, a country where he would live for the next 47 years. Of this time, he spent a relatively brief six years as the...Read more

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