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'''John Watson McCrindle''' (16 May 1825 - 16 July 1913, West Cliff-on-Sea) was a Scottish classical philologist and educator who wrote several major works on references to India in ancient classical writings.

==Life==

McCrindle was the son of John McCrindle and was born near [[Maybole]], Ayrshire and went to the [[University of Edinburgh]] where he received the Stratton Gold Medal in 1853. He graduated BA in 1854 and MA in 1855 and taught for a while in Edinburgh schools before moving to India in 1859 to become Principal of the Doveton College in Calcutta. He became a professor at Patna College and later at Krishnagar College. He became the first principal of Patna College from 1867 and retired in 1880. He founded a school for girls in Patna. He wrote a number of works (first in the ''Indian Antiquary'' and later as books) on ancient India as described in the works of [[Ctesias]], [[Megasthenes]] and [[Arrian]]; the ''Periplus Maris Erythraei'' ("Coastal Cruise of the Red Sea"); [[Ptolemy]]'s geography of India and the invasion of India by [[Alexander the Great]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/281/mode/1up|page=281| author=Buckland, C.E.| title=Dictionary of Indian Biography|year=1906| place=London| publisher=Schwann, Sonnenschein & Co.}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links ==
* [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.34853 Ancient India as described in classical literature (1901)]
* [https://archive.org/details/ancientindiaasd00mccrgoog Ancient India as described by Ptolemy (1885)]
* [https://archive.org/details/AncientIndiaAsDescribedByKtesiasTheKnidianByMccrindleJ.W Ancient India as described by Ktesias the Knidian (1882)]
* [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.107457 Commerce and navigation of the Erythraean sea (1879)]
* [https://archive.org/details/AncientIndiaAsDescribedByMegasthenesAndArrianByMccrindleJ.W Ancient India as described by Megasthenes and Arrian (1877)]

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