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2 unusual facts about John Dowson


Henry Miers Elliot

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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