Mountstuart Elphinstone in South Asia: Pioneer of British Colonial Rule

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Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859), Lowland Scottish traveller, East India Company civil servant and educator, was once some of the principal intellectual architects of British colonial rule in South Asia. Imbued with liberal views, such that Bombay’s rich founded Elphinstone College in his memory, he pioneered the scholarly, scientific and administrative foundations of imperialism in India.

Elphinstone’s career was once launched when he was once picked to lead the inaugural British diplomatic mission to the Afghan court. His Account of the Kingdom of Caubul (1815) became the primary source of British details about Afghanistan. He’s best known for his periods as Resident at Poona and Governor of Bombay within the 1810s and 1820s, when he instituted innovative and lasting policies in administration and education at the same time as also conducting research for his extremely influential History of India (1841).

This volume examines Mountstuart Elphinstone’s intellectual contributions and administrative career in their very own right, in the case of prominent contemporaries including Charles Metcalfe and William Moorcroft, and within the context of later historical study of India, Afghanistan, British imperialism and its imperial frontiers.

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