Author:Mountstuart Elphinstone

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Mountstuart Elphinstone
(1779–1859)

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Scottish statesman and historian, associated with the government of British India; Governor of Bombay where he is credited with the opening of several educational institutions accessible to the Indian population; noted administrator, he wrote books on India and Afghanistan

Works

History of India: Hindoo and Mohammedan Periods (1841)

Works about Elphinstone

"The Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1875–1889)
"Elphinstone, Hon. Mountstuart," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
"Elphinstone, Mountstuart," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
"Elphinstone, Mountstuart," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
"Elphinstone, Mountstuart," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

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