Report on the Territories Conquered From the Paishwa / Mountstuart Elphinstone

By: Elphinstone, MountstuartContributor(s): Elphinstone, MountstuartMaterial type: TextTextPublisher number: ;Zafaa Books & Distributors | :313/56F 49A, Anand Nagar Inderlok Delhi 110035Series: Cambridge Library Collection - South Asian HistoryPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011Description: 190p. 24cmISBN: 9781108028523Subject(s): Political Science | Civil and political rights | Trade | Relation of stateDDC classification: 320.954 ELP
Contents:
Description of the country; Sketch of the Marratta history; Revenue; Subdivisions of Mokassa; Police and criminal justice; Civil justice; Appendix
Summary: 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
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Description of the country; Sketch of the Marratta history; Revenue; Subdivisions of Mokassa; Police and criminal justice; Civil justice; Appendix


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

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