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Mountstuart Elphinstone FRSE (6 October 1779 – 20 November 1859) was a Scottish statesman and historian, associated with the government of British India. He later became the Governor of Bombay (now Mumbai) where he is credited with the opening of several educational institutions accessible to the Indian population.
Mountstuart Elphinstone FRSE (6 de octubre de 1779 - 20 de noviembre de 1859) fue un estadista e historiador escocés, asociado con el gobierno de la India británica.
Mountstuart Elphinstone (born Oct. 6, 1779, Dunbartonshire, Scot.—died Nov. 20, 1859, Hookwood, near Limpsfield, Surrey, Eng.) was a British official in India who did much to promote popular education and local administration of laws.
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Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859), Lowland Scottish traveller, East India Company civil servant and educator, was one of the principal intellectual architects of British colonial rule in South Asia.
Built of teak in India in 1826, the 'Mount Stewart Elphinstone' had a trading life of more than fifty years. Over several voyages it carried nearly 1,700 convicts to Sydney and Hobart, as well as emigrants to Australia.
4 de dic. de 2022 · Through studying the trajectories of the body of colonial knowledge initiated by Mountstuart Elphinstone and his intellectual successors through the lens of ‘governmentality’ new understandings of colonial power in frontier spaces start to emerge.
13 de dic. de 2011 · ELPHINSTONE, MOUNTSTUART (1779-1859), author of an important description of Afghanistan. He was a British Indian official who rose to become governor of Bombay. He was the fourth son of the eleventh Baron Elphinstone, a minor Scottish peer of modest circumstances.
