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Mountstuart Elphinstone in South Asia : pioneer of British colonial rule / Shah Mahmoud Hanifi.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: London : Hurst & Company, 2019Description: 1 online resource : illustrations, mapsContent type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780190943066 (ebook) :Subject(s): Elphinstone, Mountstuart, 1779-1859
| Elphinstone, Mountstuart, 1779-1859. Account of the Kingdom of Caubul | British -- India -- History -- 19th century | British -- Afghanistan -- History -- 19th century | Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration -- History -- 19th centuryAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780190914400DDC classification: 954.031092 LOC classification: DS475.2.E4Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: 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. 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.
| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Also issued in print: 2019.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. 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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