Appointed through family influence to the East India Company,
Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779 1859) arrived on the subcontinent in
1796, quickly learning Persian and developing an interest in Indian
civilisation. After postings in Benares, Afghanistan and Poona, he
became governor in 1819 of the recently acquired territory that
became known as the Bombay Presidency, where he remained until his
resignation in 1827. On his return to England, he devoted much of
his time to writing and was a founder member of the Royal
Geographical Society. This two-volume history, based on a range of
Indian sources and first published in 1841, is infused with his
lifelong understanding of Indian culture, science and philosophy. A
scholarly refutation of James Mill's History, it was the most
popular work of its kind among the early Victorian public. Volume 2
covers the period from the thirteenth century to the demise of the
Mogul empire in the mid-eighteenth century.
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