Mountstuart Elphinstone in South Asia: Pioneer of British Colonial Rule Shah Mahmoud Hanifi

Mountstuart Elphinstone in South Asia: Pioneer of British Colonial Rule – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780190914400,0190914408,9780190092658, 0190092653

Product details:

• ISBN 10: 0190092653
• ISBN 13:9780190092658
• Author: Shah Mahmoud Hanifi

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. Imbued with liberal views, such that Bombay’s wealthy founded Elphinstone College in his memory, he pioneered the scholarly, scientific and administrative foundations of imperialism in India.Elphinstone’s career was launched when he was picked to lead the inaugural British diplomatic mission to the Afghan court. His Account of the Kingdom of Caubul (1815) became the main source of British information about Afghanistan. He is best known for his periods as Resident at Poona and Governor of Bombay in the 1810s and 1820s, when he instituted innovative and lasting policies in administration and education while also conducting research for his extremely influential History of India (1841).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.

Table contents:

Part I: Mountstuart Elphinstone And An Account Of The Kingdom Of Caubul
1. A Book History of Mountstuart Elphinstone’s An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul
2. Mountstuart Elphinstone: An Anthropologist Before Anthropology
3. The Elphinstone Mission, the ‘Kingdom of Caubul’ and the Turkic World
4. Muslim ‘Fanaticism’ as Ambiguous Trope: A Study in Polemical Mutation
Part II: Mountstuart Elphinstone And His Contemporaries
5. The Discovery of Afghanistan in the Era of Imperialism: George Forster, Mountstuart Elphinstone, and Charles Masson
6. Lieutenant Henry Pottinger and 150 Years of Baloch History
7. Information and Affect in Charles Metcalfe’s Mission to Lahore, August 1808–May 1809
8. Mountstuart Elphinstone and Indian Education
9. Can Imperialists Produce Knowledge? The Case of James Grant Duff’s History of the Mahrattas
Part III: Mountstuart Elphinstone: Comparisons And Legacy
10. Elphinstone, Geography, and the Spectre of Afghanistan in the Himalaya
11. Forgetting like a State in Colonial North-East India
12. Mountstuart Elphinstone, Colonial Knowledge and ‘Frontier Governmentality’ in Northwest India, 1849–1878
13. The Soviet Elphinstone: Colonial Histories, Post-Colonial Presents, and Socialist Futures in the Soviet Reception of British Orientalism
14. Elphinstone and the Afghan-Pathan Elision: Comparative British and American Approaches in the Twentieth Century

People also search:

are the himalayas in south asia

volcanoes in south asia

what percent of south asia land does nepal cover

mountstuart elphinstone

mountains in south east asia