James Grant Duff (8 July 1789 – 23 September 1858) was a British soldier and historian from Scotland, who was active in British India. Born James Grant...
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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 Grant Duff thereafter...
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officials of the Moghal administration at the city. According to historian James Grant Duff, Surat was attacked by Shivaji on 5 January 1664; the attack was so...
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capable figures of his era.Justice Kashinath Trimbak Telang citing James Grant Duff narrates an amusing story that illustrates Madhavrao's ruthlessness...
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Bakhar are considered the most reliable of all bakhars by scholars. James Grant Duff, a British administrator, published his 3-volume work on History of...
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the British Resident James Grant (later known as James Grant Duff), to rein in Pratapsinh on his personal spending. By 1819 Grant had been monitoring Natu...
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minister and statesman during the Peshwa administration in Pune, India. James Grant Duff states that he was called "the Maratha Machiavelli" by the Europeans...
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and Jean Grant (daughter of Sir James Grant of Pluscardine, Baron of Luss and Grant), his father's second wife. His father, son of William Duff of Dipple...
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at an altitude of about 1000 meters. The fort has been described by James Grant Duff in his posthumously published book of 1863, History of the Mahrattas...
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Parliament James Grant Duff (1789–1858), Indian soldier and statesman James Duff (North Norfolk MP) (1831–1878), British MP for North Norfolk James Stoddart...
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James Duff (born 1961) is an American billionaire businessman. Together with his brother Thomas Duff, he is the founder and co-owner of Duff Capital Investors...
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Cathedral. James Sutherland Cotton later wrote his biography as part of the Rulers of India series in 1892. The historian James Grant Duff named his son...
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Sanskrit, Vedic and Persian scholar; consultant to British Historian James Grant Duff; author of the Sanskrit "karma kalpadrum"(manual for Hindu rituals);...
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Aba Parasnis (section Consultant to James Grand Duff)
of the three scholars who were consultants to the British historian James Grant Duff, specifically in Persian sources of the history of Maharashtra — the...
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(1977). A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954–1962. ISBN 1-59017-218-3. James Grant Duff (2001). A history of the Mahrattas (3 volumes). Yokai Publishing. ISBN 0-85792-462-1...
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Archived from the original on 8 February 2022. Retrieved 8 February 2022. James Grant Duff "History of the Mahrattas, Vol II (Ch. 5), Printed for Longman, Rees...
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bakhars are recently being investigated for their historical content. James Grant Duff relied on bakhars in the making of his "History of the Marathas". Shankar...
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James Duff, 5th Earl Fife, KT (6 July 1814 – 7 August 1879) was a Scottish nobleman and politician. Duff was the son of Sir Alexander Duff, younger brother...
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Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. Fife was born Alexander Duff in Edinburgh, the son of James Duff and his wife, Lady Agnes Hay. His father was a grandson...
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had not the Peshwa withdrawn his troops on General Smith's approach. James Grant Duff (1826). A History of the Mahrattas. Vol. 3. Longmans, Rees, Orme, Brown...
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Sanskrit, Vedic and Persian scholar; consultant to British Historian James Grant Duff; author of the Sanskrit "karma kalpadrum"(manual for Hindu rituals);...
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him. James Nesbitt as Danny Frater Sacha Dhawan as Jaisal Anne-Marie Duff as Susannah Sam Heughan as Ryan Niamh Algar as Nicola Richard E. Grant as Harry...
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wife, Jean Grant. Among his siblings were brothers James Duff, 2nd Earl Fife and Arthur Duff, MP for Elginshire. His sister, Hon. Helen Duff, married their...
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Alexander Grant, who later that year succeeded his second cousin as fifth Earl of Seafield. In 1763, Grant married Jean Duff, daughter of Alexander Duff, 2nd...
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Alexander Duff Succeeded by: James Duff Seat: Duff House Born: 1814 Died: 1857 Preceded by: James Duff Succeeded by: Alexander Duff Seat: Duff House Born:...
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destroyed a large number of manuscripts as a result of this order. James Grant Duff, in his History of the Mahrattas (1826), states that the Maratha state...
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Machine महाराष्ट्राचा गौरवशाली इतिहास / The History of Maharashtra..... James Grant Duff, History of the Mahrattas, 3 vols. London, Longmans, Rees, Orme, Brown...
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down in favour of his brother-in-law James Abercromby. Abercrombie was a government supporter, and as a reward, Duff was created Lord Braco of Kilbryde...
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result of the charge. An account of the battle by James Grant Duff is well known to historians. Duff observed the battle from a position on the hills of...
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Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich, GCMG, DSO, PC (22 February 1890 – 1 January 1954), known as Duff Cooper, was a British Conservative Party politician...
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