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Shoja Shah met at Peshawar with the British representative, Mountstuart Elphinstone, to negotiate a joint defense against the threat of a combined invasion of India by Napoleon and Alexander I of Russia.
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Governor of Bombay, Mountstuart Elphinstone, declared too confidently that "the conversion of the natives _must_ result from the diffusion of knowledge among them."
New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments John Morrison
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With special reference to Asiatic India: Mountstuart Elphinstone, _History of
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923
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Mountstuart Elphinstone, a great administrator who was also a profound student of Indian history, and a very sympathetic observer and friend of Indian customs and modes of life.
The Expansion of Europe Ramsay Muir 1906
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-- Head and body, 20 inches; tail, 14 inches; weight, 5-1/2 lbs. According to Mountstuart Elphinstone the backs of the foxes in
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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The embassy of Mountstuart Elphinstone to Afghánistán was comparatively fruitless, chiefly owing to the unsettled state of that mysterious country.
The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) John Knight Fotheringham 1867
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Mountstuart Elphinstone was selected as envoy, and has left an interesting account of his mission.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Jules Verne 1866
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Service, the author of the "History of India," Mountstuart Elphinstone.
India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge Alexander Wilder 1861
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Mountstuart Elphinstone, who writes more particularly of the Southern Village Communities, observes of them
Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society Henry Sumner Maine 1855
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I allude to men like Thomas Munro, Mountstuart Elphinstone, John
Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts
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