Life of the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone - the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinston

Klappentext The life and work of one of Britain's colonial administrators in India! who eventually became Governor of Bombay. Zusammenfassung Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779–1859) was a British administrator in India whose career saw him posted to Afghanistan and Poona before becoming Governor of Bombay. Volume 1 of this two-volume biography, published in 1884, examines his childhood, education and early career, covering the period up to 1817. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Early life, 1779-1799; 2. First start in diplomacy, 1801-1802; 3. Assye, 1803; 4. Gawlighur, 1803; 5. Nagpoor, 1803-1807; 6. Singia, 1808; 7. Caubul, 1808-1809; 8. Poona, 1810-1815; 9. Trimbukjee, 1815-1819; 10. Correspondence, 1816; 11. Kirkee, 1816-1817.

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• Authors: Thomas Edward Colebrooke
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.06.2011
• EAN: 9781108097222
• ISBN: 978-1-108-09722-2
• No. of pages: 418
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous