George Bruce Malleson

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Colonel George Bruce Malleson Template:Post-nominals (8 May 1825 – 1 March 1898) was an English officer in India and the author of several works on British Indian colonial history.

Biography

Malleson was born in Wimbledon, son of John Malleson. Educated at Wimbledon and Winchester, he obtained a cadetship in the Bengal Native infantry in 1842, and served through the second Burmese War. His subsequent appointments were in the civil line, the last being that of guardian to the young maharaja of Mysore, Chamarajendra Wodeyar from 1869 to 1877. He retired with the rank of colonel in 1877, having been created C.S.I. in the 1872 Birthday Honours.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

He was a prolific writer, his first work to attract attention being the famous "Red Pamphlet", published at Calcutta in 1857, when the Sepoy Mutiny was at its height. He continued, and considerably rewrote the History of the Indian Mutiny 1857-8 (6 vols., 1878–1880), which was begun but left unfinished by Sir John Kaye. Among his other books the most valuable are History of the French in India (2nd ed., 1893) and The Decisive Battles of India (3rd ed., 1888).Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

He authored the biographies of the Mughal Emperor Akbar, the French governor-general Dupleix<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> and the British officer Robert Clive for the Rulers of India series.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

He died at 27 West Cromwell Road, London, on 1 March 1898.Template:Sfn

Works

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• Template:Cite book Full text online at ibiblio.org (All six volumes, including the first two originally by Sir John Kaye, in HTML form, complete, chapter-by-chapter, with all illustrations, footnotes and a combined index)
  • Volume I. 1878.
  • Volume III. 1880.
  • Volume V. 1889.
• Template:Cite book Pub. 1883. Full text online at ibiblio.org (In HTML form, complete, chapter-by-chapter, with all illustrations and footnotes)
• Template:Cite book Full text online at archive.org. Malleson's own condensed version of the six-volume history.
• Template:Cite book Pub. 1896. Full text online at ibiblio.org (In HTML form, complete, chapter-by-chapter, with all illustrations and footnotes)
• History of the French in India 1893 (2nd revised ed.)
• Dupleix and the Struggle for India by the European Nations 1899
• History of Afghanistan, from the Earliest Period to the Outbreak of the War of 1878. Pub. 1879. 2nd ed. London: W.H. Allen & Co. A translation of this work was used for training British military interpreters in the Pashto language.<ref>History of Afghanistan: Official Text-Book for the Examination of Military Officers in Interpretership Pushtu. World Digital Library, 13 January 2015.</ref>
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