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Mountstuart Elphinstone in South Asia - Pioneer of British Colonial Rule (Hardcover)
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Mountstuart Elphinstone in South Asia - Pioneer of British Colonial Rule (Hardcover)
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Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859), Lowland Scottish traveller,
East India Company civil servant and educator, was one of the
principal intellectual architects of British colonial rule in South
Asia. Imbued with liberal views, such that Bombay's wealthy founded
Elphinstone College in his memory, he pioneered the scholarly,
scientific and administrative foundations of imperialism in India.
Elphinstone's career was launched when he was picked to lead the
inaugural British diplomatic mission to the Afghan court. His
Account of the Kingdom of Caubul (1815) became the main source of
British information about Afghanistan. He is best known for his
periods as Resident at Poona and Governor of Bombay in the 1810s
and 1820s, when he instituted innovative and lasting policies in
administration and education while also conducting research for his
extremely influential History of India (1841). This volume examines
Mountstuart Elphinstone's intellectual contributions and
administrative career in their own right, in relation to prominent
contemporaries including Charles Metcalfe and William Moorcroft,
and in the context of later historical study of India, Afghanistan,
British imperialism and its imperial frontiers.
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