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Report on the Territories Conquered from the Paishwa Mountstuart Elphinstone

Report on the Territories Conquered from the Paishwa By Mountstuart Elphinstone

Report on the Territories Conquered from the Paishwa by Mountstuart Elphinstone


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Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859) was an official in India and this work, published in 1821, describes the western Indian territory that the British had acquired by 1818, focusing on how it should be administered, and providing a view of the British Empire's inner workings.

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Report on the Territories Conquered from the Paishwa: Submitted to the Supreme Government of British India by Mountstuart Elphinstone

Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859) was a colonial official who spent his career in India, eventually becoming governor of Bombay in 1819. Before that he was resident in Poona (Pune) during the final days of the Maratha empire. He was fluent in Persian and took an interest in the culture of the region. This report, however, published in 1821, is a political work. The report describes the western Indian territory that the British had acquired by 1818, and Elphinstone provides a geographical overview of the area and the people who lived there. He then gives a brief sketch of Maratha history before moving on to the crux of the work: how to administer the territory, with the question of how to raise more revenue being of especial importance. This report provides a first-hand example of the inner workings of the British Empire in India.

Table of Contents

Description of the country; Sketch of the Marratta history; Revenue; Subdivisions of Mokassa; Police and criminal justice; Civil justice; Appendix.

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NLS9781108028523
9781108028523
1108028527
Report on the Territories Conquered from the Paishwa: Submitted to the Supreme Government of British India by Mountstuart Elphinstone
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2011-06-30
190
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