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GB 891 HME-HME/1-HME/1/5
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Published
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Four printed items
Date(s)
- [1827-1853] (Creation)
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Name of creator
(1808-1853)
Biographical history
Sir Henry Miers Elliot was a civil servant and historian who worked with the East India Company in India for 26 years. He is most well known for a compilation of his papers, 'The History of India, as Told by its own Historians', which was compiled and published posthumously in eight volumes by John Dowson, between 1867 and 1877.
After being appointed to the position of Assistant to the Magistrate and Collector of Bareilly in May 1828, Elliot advanced to a number of administrative positions within the East India Company, moving largely around Northern and Central India. His papers, which were written and collected during his time spent in India, comprise largely of research towards his various job postings.
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Royal Asiatic Society Archives
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Four unbound manuscript pages for Elliot's 'A History of India', printed by the Oriental Lithographic Press, Calcutta:
* Appendices III A and III B: Diagrams depicting unknown, labelled items, probably hill towns, surrounded by notes in Arabic and one other, as yet undeciphered, script
*. Item labelled 'No.VIII', probably an appendix: Diagrammatic map depicting a town and its buildings, numbered and labelled in Arabic.
* Item labelled 'No.XV - Number 1': Printed table and map for the 'Village of Mouza Sooltanpoor, Purgunuh of Noh Jheel, Zilla Muttra', labelled in English. The table shows a brief, surveyed description of the area, which includes the number of houses and wells, amount of land covered by buildings, the cost of various items, the general caste of inhabitants, and the depth of water
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Language of material
- English
- Arabic
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