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4 unusual facts about Henry Miers Elliot


Beary

Noori disputes the claim that the first Muslims came to India along with Alauddin Khilji between 1296–1316 AD and points out that according to renowned historian, Henry Miers Elliot, (The History of India as told by its own Historians, Part I) the first ship bearing Muslim travelers was seen on the Indian coast as early as 630 AD.

Henry Miers Elliot

He was assistant successively to the collector of Bareilly, the political agent at Delhi, and the collector of the southern division of Muradabad; secretary to the Sudder board of Revenue for the North-Western Provinces; and (1847) secretary to the governor-general in council for the foreign department.

His historical researches bore fruit in the The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians. The Muhammadan Period, edited by John Dowson, 8 vols.

Mohammad Habib

In the forties, his interest in Marxism heightened; and in 1952 he presented in a remarkable piece, his introduction to a reprint of volume II of Elliot and Dowson's The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians, an interpretation of early medieval India deeply influenced by Marxist ideas.



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