History · Negotiating the Sources
UGC NET November 2017 History
Which classical (Graeco-Roman) author had observed, 'Generally, men who have hitherto written on India were a set of liars – Deimachus holds the first place in the list, Megasthenes comes next, while Onesicritus and Nearchus, with others of the same class, manage to stammer out a few words of truth'?
AArrian
BJustin
CPlutarch
DStrabo ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Strabo — Strabo made this observation, so the answer is Strabo.
Explanation
★Strabo made this observation, so the answer is Strabo.
★Strabo was a Greek geographer and historian.
★His Geography is the only surviving work covering all the peoples and countries known to the Greeks and Romans.
★It was written in the reign of Augustus.
★It contains many quotations from earlier technical literature.
★So this sharp remark about writers on India was made by Strabo.
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