Mountstuart Elphinstone in South Asia - Pioneer of British Colonial Rule

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Mahmoud Shah Hanifi
• Assisted by: Shah Mahmoud Hanifi (Editor), Hanifi Shah Mahmoud (Editor), Dalrymple William (Foreword)
• Publisher: Hurst Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781849048361
• ISBN: 978-1-84904-836-1
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, British Empire, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, India, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, HISTORY / Asia / South / General