Mountstuart Elphinstone in South Asia: Pioneer of British Colonial Rule

Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors
List of Illustrations
Preface: A New Source for the Elphinstone
Introduction
Part I: Mountstuart Elphinstone and An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul
	1. A Book History of Mountstuart Elphinstone’s An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul
	2. Mountstuart Elphinstone: An Anthropologist Before Anthropology
	3. The Elphinstone Mission, the ‘Kingdom of Caubul’ and the Turkic World
	4. Muslim ‘Fanaticism’ as Ambiguous Trope: A Study in Polemical Mutation
Part II: Mountstuart Elphinstone and His Contemporaries
	5. The Discovery of Afghanistan in the Era of Imperialism: George Forster, Mountstuart Elphinstone, and Charles Masson
	6. Lieutenant Henry Pottinger and 150 Years of Baloch History
	7. Information and Affect in Charles Metcalfe’s Mission to Lahore, August 1808–May 1809
	8. Mountstuart Elphinstone and Indian Education
	9. Can Imperialists Produce Knowledge? The Case of James Grant Duff’s History of the Mahrattas
Part III: Mountstuart Elphinstone: Comparisons and Legacy
	10. Elphinstone, Geography, and the Spectre of Afghanistan in the Himalaya
	11. Forgetting like a State in Colonial North-East India
	12. Mountstuart Elphinstone, Colonial Knowledge and ‘Frontier Governmentality’ in Northwest India, 1849–1878
	13. The Soviet Elphinstone: Colonial Histories, Post-Colonial Presents, and Socialist Futures in the Soviet Reception of British Orientalism
	14. Elphinstone and the Afghan-Pathan Elision: Comparative British and American Approaches in the Twentieth Century
Notes
Index