Record Number: 14157
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Strachey's "Narrative History of Persia" ...'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Oct 1800 and 31 Oct 1801
Country:India
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:A narrative of the mutiny of the officers of the army in Bengal in ... 1766
Genre:History
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsLondon, 1773
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:14157
Source:James Sutherland Cotton
Editor:n/a
Title:Mountstuart Elphinstone
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1892
Vol:n/a
Page:27
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
James Sutherland Cotton, Mountstuart Elphinstone (Oxford, 1892), p. 27, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=14157, accessed: 04 December 2023
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 as given has not been traced. It is likely that two titles have been conflated: Henry Strachey's "A narrative of the mutiny of the officers of the army in Bengal in ... 1766" (London, 1773) and a history of Persia. [This may be a transcription error in the source.] The title is identified as Strachey's history of the Bengal mutiny on the grounds that external sources confirm that Elphinstone travelled with a copy of Henry Strachey's work.
