Henry Miers Elliot

Henry Miers Elliot

Henry Miers Elliot (* 1808 ; † December 20, 1853 ) was a British colonial official in India and historian who wrote a history of the Mohammedan epoch of India (see Islamic Empires and Mughal Era ), as it was reproduced by India's own historians. The first edition of this widely acclaimed work was published posthumously in eight volumes by John Dowson between 1867 and 1877 .

Works

• Henry Miers Elliot & John Dowson: The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians. The Muhammadan Period . Vol. 1-8 Low Price Publications Delhi 1990
• The history of India: as told by its own historians; the Muhammadan period. Ed. from the posthumous papers of the late HM Elliot. Frankfurt am Main: Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Univ., 1997
• B ibliographical index to the historians of Muhammedan India: in 4 volumes. Calcutta: Printed by J. Thomas, Baptist Mission Press. Sold in London by Wm. H. Allen and Co., 1849ff.
• Memoirs on the history, folk-lore and distribution of the races of the North Western provinces of India. Being an ed. Of Suppl. Glossary of Indian terms. London 1869
• Supplement to Elliot and Dowson's History… / Khaliq Ahmad Nizami Vol. 3; The Khaljis and the Tughluqs 1981
• Supplement to Elliot and Dowson's History… / Khaliq Ahmad Nizami Vol. 2; Ghaznavids and the Ghurids . Rev. and enl. version of the original as appeared in 1952. - 1981

Web links

• Literature by and about Henry Miers Elliot in the catalog of the German National Library
• Content of the main work (English)
• Article The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians. The Muhammadan Period in the English language Wikipedia