LIFE OF THE HONOURABLE MOUNTSTUART ELPHINSTONE by Thomas Edward Colebrooke ( 9781108294928 )

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LIFE OF THE HONOURABLE MOUNTSTUART ELPHINSTONE

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Thomas Edward Colebrooke

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CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION

Pub. date:

2 June, 2011

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Cambridge Library Collection - South Asian History

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440

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The life and work of one of Britain's colonial administrators in India, who eventually became Governor of Bombay.

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Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859) was appointed through family influence to the East India Company, and arrived in India in 1796. He learnt Persian, and developed an interest in Indian literature and politics. After postings in Afghanistan and Poona he became Governor in 1819 of the recently acquired territory that became known as the Bombay Presidency. His biographer also had connections to India. Thomas Edward Colebrooke (1813-1890) was the son of British administrator and Sanskrit scholar Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1765-1837), and although he lived in England and served as an M. P., Colebrooke remained interested in colonial affairs. He had written about Elphinstone's life in 1861 for the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society and subsequently expanded his work into these two volumes, published in 1884. Volume 2 covers his years in Poona and Bombay, and his eventual return to England.

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