Evidence: | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Timur's Institutes...' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Oct 1800 and 31 Oct 1801 | ||||||||||
Country: | India | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Mounstuart 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, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Timur |
Title: | Institutes |
Genre: | Law |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 14152 | |
Source - | ||
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/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=14152, accessed: 20 April 2024 |
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 'Institutes political and military, written originally in the Mogul language, by the great Timour, improperly called Tamerlaine ...', 1783 |
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