Quotes:Elphinstone, Mountstuart

Boris de Zirkoff

Elphinstone, Mountstuart. Scottish statesman and historian, b. in 1779; d. Nov. 20, 1859. Having received an appointment in the civil service of the East India Company, he reached Calcutta in 1796. Appointed, 1801, assistant to the British resident at Poona, at the court of the peshwa. When war broke out, he acted as virtual aide-de-camp to General Wellesley. Appointed, 1804, British resident at Nagpur, and in 1808 as first British envoy to the court of Kabul. He became, 1810, resident at Poona. Played important role in the conflict with the Marathas. Appointed, 1819, lieutenant-governor of Bombay, where he remained until 1827, his principal achievement being the compilation of the "Elphinstone Code." He may be regarded as the founder of the system of State education in India. He returned to England in 1829. Chief works: *An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India, etc., London, 1815. - *The History of India, London, 1841, embracing the Hindu and Mohammedan periods. - The Rise of British Power in the East, London, 1858.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 1, pp. 462-463