John Watson McCrindle

John Watson McCrindle (1825–1913) was a Scottish classical scholar and educator who spent nearly thirty years in India, as principal of the Government College at Patna and later of Government College, Krishnagar, and as a fellow of the University of Calcutta. On his return to Edinburgh he devoted himself to collecting and translating every passage in the Greek and Latin authors that concerned India. The series began with Ancient India as Described by Megasthenes and Arrian and continued with the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, Ptolemy's geography of India, The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great and Ancient India as Described in Classical Literature.