Record Number: 14155

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Orme's Hindustan (a second time) ...'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Oct 1800 and 31 Oct 1801

Country:

India

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Mountstuart Elphinstone

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

6 Oct 1779

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

East India Company administrator

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

India

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Orme

Title:

Hindustan

Genre:

History

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

14155

Source:

Print

Author:

James Sutherland Cotton

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Mountstuart Elphinstone

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1892

Vol:

n/a

Page:

27

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

James Sutherland Cotton, Mountstuart Elphinstone (Oxford, 1892), p. 27, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=14155, accessed: 28 November 2023

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Additional Comments:

One of a group of some 70 works read mainly while journeying, with Edward Strachey, between a post in Benares and his next posting in Poona. Title is probably 'A history of the military transactions of the British nation in Indostan, from the year MDCCXLV. To which is prefixed A dissertation on the establishments made by Mahomedan conquerors in Indostan?'