TY - BOOK AU - Hanifi,Shah Mahmoud TI - Mountstuart Elphinstone in South Asia: pioneer of British colonial rule T2 - Oxford scholarship online SN - 9780190943066 (ebook) : AV - DS475.2.E4 U1 - 954.031092 23 PY - 2019/// CY - London PB - Hurst & Company KW - Elphinstone, Mountstuart, KW - British KW - India KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Afghanistan KW - Great Britain KW - Colonies KW - Administration N1 - Also issued in print: 2019; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - 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 UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190914400.001.0001 ER -