Table of Contents

Dedication Acknowledgements Preface by William Dalrymple Introduction Part I: Mountstuart Elphinstone and An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul 1. Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, A Book History of Mountstuart Elphinstone's An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul 2. M. Jamil Hanifi, Mountstuart Elphinstone: An Anthropologist Before Anthropology 3. Jonathan Lee, The Elphinstone Mission, the 'Kingdom of Caubul' and Turkic world 4. Zak Leonard, Muslim "Fanaticism" as Ambiguous Trope: A Study in Polemical Mutation Part II: Mountstuart Elphinstone and His Contemporaries 5. Senzil Nawid, The Discovery of Afghanistan in the Era of Imperialism: George Forster, Mountstuart Elphinstone, and Charles Masson 6. Brian Spooner, Lieutenant Henry Pottinger and 150 Years of Baloch History 7. Robert Nichols, Information and affect in Charles Metcalfe's mission to Lahore, August 1808-May 1809 8. Lynn Zastoupil, Mountstuart Elphinstone and Indian Education 9. Spencer Leonard, Can Imperialists Produce Knowledge? The Case of James Grant Duff's History of the Mahrattas Part III: Mountstuart Elphinstone: Comparisons and Legacy 10. Kyle Gardner Elphinstone, Geography, and the Specter of Afghanistan in the Himalaya 11. Tom Simpson, Forgetting Like a State in Colonial North-East India 12. Martin Bayly, Mountstuart Elphinstone, Colonial Knowledge and 'Frontier Governmentality' in Northwest India, 1849-1878 13. Timothy Nunan, The Soviet Elphinstone: Colonial Histories, Post-Colonial Presents, and Socialist Futures in the Soviet Reception of British Orientalism 14. Elisabeth Leake, Elphinstone and the Afghan-Pathan Elision: Comparative British and American Approaches in the Twentieth Century