Mountstuart Elphinstone FRSE (6 October 1779 – 20 November 1859) was a Scottish statesman and historian, associated with the government of British India...
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Society and be designated as "Elphinstone College" (distinct from High School). This was named after Mountstuart Elphinstone, the departing Governor of the...
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M. E. Grant Duff (redirect from Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant-Duff)
Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff GCSI CIE PC FRS (21 February 1829 – 12 January 1906), known as M. E. Grant Duff before 1887 and as Sir Mountstuart...
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honour of Mountstuart Elphinstone, Governor of Bombay (1819–1827). In 1836 the Elphinstone Institute was founded, which started the Elphinstone College...
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Marion Cook). The couple had four children: Alexander Mountstuart Elphinstone, 19th Lord Elphinstone (b. 15 April 1980); married Nicola J. Hall on 7 July...
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(1953–1994) Alexander Mountstuart Elphinstone, 19th Lord Elphinstone, 5th Baron Elphinstone (b. 1980) Clan Elphinstone Elphinstone baronets Lord Balmerinoch...
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Alexander Mountstuart Elphinstone, 19th Lord Elphinstone and 5th Baron Elphinstone (born 15 April 1980), is a Scottish peer in both the Peerage of Scotland...
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communicate with any other powers in India. The British Resident Mountstuart Elphinstone also asked the Peshwa to disband his cavalry. The Peshwa disbanded...
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Madras from 1837 to 1842 and Governor of Bombay form 1853 to 1860 Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779–1859), Governor of Bombay from 1819 to 1827 This disambiguation...
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Illustrations: Vol I. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Duff, Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant (1899). Notes from a Diary, Kept Chiefly in Southern India...
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Scottish writer Mary Elphinstone, Lady Elphinstone (1883–1961), British noblewoman Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779–1859), Scottish statesman and historian...
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in the 1973 Bangladeshi general election. In the biography of Mountstuart Elphinstone, it is mentioned that James Achilles Kirkpatrick had a hookah-bardar...
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remembered in Swaminarayan literature. Together with his predecessor, Mountstuart Elphinstone, he was a pioneer in the promotion of Indian education and the...
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"lapsed" to the suzerain. In 1823, Rani Chennamma sent a letter to Mountstuart Elphinstone, Lieutenant-Governor of the Bombay province pleading her case,...
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1884, Mountstuart Elphinstone was reported as saying that the talati promoted the government but reduced the authority of the patel; Elphinstone recommended...
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Afghan invasion of India that might have halted Company expansion. Mountstuart Elphinstone wrote of Ahmad Shah: His military courage and activity are spoken...
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Estimates of their population vary from 30,000 to 200,000. Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone described the Qizilbash of Kabul in the beginning of the 19th century...
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returned to Ghor and introduced Islam to his tribe. According to Mountstuart Elphinstone, in legend the famous military leader and companion of Muhammad...
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Qizilbash held many important roles in the government in history. Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone described the Afghan Qizilbash in Kabul in the early 19th century...
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Pashtuns are linked to the ancient Israelites. Mohan Lal quoted Mountstuart Elphinstone who wrote: "The Afghan historians proceed to relate that the children...
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600 of Peshwa's soldiers were killed or wounded in the battle. Mountstuart Elphinstone, who visited Koregaon two days later on 3 January 1818, wrote that...
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Pashtuns are linked to the ancient Israelites. Mohan Lal quoted Mountstuart Elphinstone who wrote: "The Afghan historians proceed to relate that the children...
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history of India, Volume 1 The History of India, Mountstuart Elphinstone Author Mountstuart Elphinstone Publisher J. Murray, 1841 Tarikh-i-Ferishta or history...
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Edward (1884). "First Start in Diplomacy". Life of the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone. Cambridge University Press. pp. 34–35. ISBN 9781108097222. Khaleeli...
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Company, general Pritzler laid siege to the fort on the orders of Mountstuart Elphinstone, the company resident in Pune at the end of Third Anglo-Maratha...
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emigration. On 5 November 1817, the British East India Company under Mountstuart Elphinstone defeated Bajirao II, the Peshwa of the Maratha Empire, in the Battle...
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Illustration of a Hindki in Peshawar in the book “An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul” (1815) by Mountstuart Elphinstone....
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completed by 1784. In 1817, the British East India Company under Mountstuart Elphinstone defeated Baji Rao II, the last of the Maratha Peshwa in the Battle...
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prominence when British officials of the Bombay presidency such as Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone, Arthur Malet (for whom the seat at "Point Arthur" is named), Carnac...
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the new territories, Mountstuart Elphinstone, appointed a commissioner and left the district's boundaries almost intact. Elphinstone and other British officers...
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