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Elliot was married to the daughter of William Cowell a judge at the Provincial Court of Appeal, at Bareilly, Bengal, India. Failing health compelled him to seek a change of climate, and he died on 20 December 1853 on his way home at
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The Sudder Board of Revenue of North-Western Provinces encouraged him to publish a glossary on terms in use throughout the region. The work included terms little covered and was heavily based on
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Memoirs on the History, Folk-lore, and Distribution of the Races of the North Western Provinces of India: Being an Amplified Edition of the Original Supplemental Glossary of Indian Terms
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Memoirs on the History, Folk-lore, and Distribution of the Races of the North Western Provinces of India: Being an Amplified Edition of the Original Supplemental Glossary of Indian Terms
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which contained many valuable articles on Indian subjects. With a view to assisting the projected official 'Glossary of Indian Judicial and Revenue Terms,' he published in 1845 at
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Elliot left behind him manuscript collections which were placed in the hands of competent scholars for publication. His historical researches bore fruit in
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Early Writings on India: A Union Catalogue of Books on India in the English Language Published up to 1900 and Available in Delhi Libraries
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Elliot's life-work, the Mohammedan historians of India, came out mostly in two well-known works. The first one was titled
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as well as his classics and mathematics proved so good that he was even placed by himself in an honorary class (1826).
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and drew up an admirable memoir on its resources. As foreign secretary he also visited the western frontier with Lord
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was written when he was on his deathbed and wrote it to apparently test the powers of his mind which he had doubted.
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and its first and only volume was published at Calcutta in 1849. His manuscripts were edited posthumously by
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India,' in which he proposed to give an analysis of the contents and a criticism of the value of 231
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Elliot was born on 1 March 1808. He was the third son, one of fifteen children, of John Elliot, of
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as 'replete with curious and valuable information, especially as regards the tribes and clans of
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for his services (1849). Throughout his official career he had devoted his leisure to study.
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Memoirs of the History, Folklore, and Distribution of the Races of the North-West Provinces
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based on his works, published posthumously in eight volumes, between 1867–1877 in London.
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tempted him to try for an appointment in their service, and he was the first of the '
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historians of India, but of which he only lived to publish the first volume (
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Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia
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Appendix to the Arabs in Sind, Vol. III, Part 1, of the Historians of India
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Appendix to the Arabs in Sind, Vol.III, Part 1, of the Historians of India
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The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians. The Muhammadan Period
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The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
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Thayer, Gordon W. (1921). "A Rare Work by Sir Henry Miers Elliot".
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Children of Sir Henry Miers Elliot KCB & Eliza Rebecca Cowell
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Memorial to Henry Miers Elliot at St Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta
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Bibliographical Index to the Historians of Muhammedan India
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Bibliographical Index to the Historians of Muhammedan India
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Wahi, Tripta (1990). "Henry Miers Elliot: A Reappraisal".
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his 'Supplement to the Glossary,' described by Professor
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for civilians beyond the numbers regularly trained at
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List of Inscriptions on Tombs or Monuments in Bengal
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The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians
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Winchester Cathedral
Westminster
Simon's Town
Cape Colony
KCB
East India Company
The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians
Pimlico
Westminster
John Coakley Lettsom
Winchester College
New College, Oxford
East India Company
Haileybury
competition wallahs
oriental languages
collector
Bareilly
Delhi
Muradabad
North-Western Provinces
Lord Hardinge
Panjab
Dalhousie
Sikh War
Gujarat
KCB
Mirat

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