Tableau du Royaume de Caboul Tome Troisieme 1817 r

Tableau du Royaume de Caboul Tome Troisieme 1817 r - M. Mountstuart Elphinstone

Tableau du Royaume de Caboul, et de ses Dependances, Dans la Perse, la Tartarie et L'inde, offrant les Moeurs, usages et costumes de cet empire. 

Par M. Mountstuart Elphinstone - Ambassadeur d'Angeleterre a la Cour de Caboul. 

Traduit et Abrege de L'Anglais Par M. Breton. 

The Hon Mountstuart Elphinstone FRSE (6 October 1779 – 20 November 1859) was a Scottish statesman and historian, associated with the government of British India. He later became the Governor of Bombay (now Mumbai) where he is credited with the opening of several educational institutions accessible to the Indian population. Besides being a noted administrator, he wrote books on India and Afghanistan.

Born in Dumbarton, Dumbartonshire (now Dunbartonshire) in 1779, and educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, he was the fourth son of the 11th Baron Elphinstone in the peerage of Scotland. Having been appointed to the civil service of the British East India Company, of which one of his uncles was a director, he arrived at Calcutta (now Kolkata) early in 1796 where he filled several subordinate posts. In 1799, he escaped massacre in Benares (now Varanasi) by the followers of the deposed Nawab of Awadh Wazir Ali Khan. In 1801 he was transferred to the Diplomatic Service where he was posted as the assistant to the British resident at the court of the Peshwa ruler Baji Rao II.