Elphinstone, Mountstuart, a noted Indian civil servant and historian; co-operated with Wellesley in firmly establishing British rule in India; was governor of Bombay, where he accomplished many useful reforms, and issued the Elphinstone Code of Laws; wrote a “History of India,” which earned for him the title of the “Tacitus of India” (1779‒1859).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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