Vincent Arthur Smith

Vincent Arthur Smith ( * 1848 in Dublin, † 1920) was a British historian, Indologist and art historian, who worked in the colonial British administration service in India. He sat down to bed early in order to devote himself entirely to literary work.

As a standard work was for a long time his Oxford History of India ( Oxford History of India), extending from the earliest times to the year 1911.

He also wrote works on such different rulers like the Buddhist ruler Ashoka and the Mughal emperor Akbar, and a history of fine arts in India and Ceylon.

Writings (selection )

  • General index to the reports of the archaeological survey of India: volumes I to XXIII; with a glossary and general table of contents, [Reprint of the ed ] Simla, Government Central Press, 1887 - Varanasi [ ua]:. Indological Book House, 1969
  • (Ed.) William Henry Sleeman: Rambles and recollections of an Indian official, Reprint of the edition Westminster 1893 (2 volumes) New Delhi [ ua]:. Asian Educational Services, 1995
  • Purna Chandra Mukherji Foreword to: A report on a tour of exploration of the antiquities of Kapilavastu Tarai of Nepal falling on February and March, 1899, [ Repr d Out: ] Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1901 - Delhi, among others. : Indological Book House, 1969
  • Catalogue of the Coins in the Indian Museum, Calcutta: includ. the Cabinet of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Part 1, Oxford, 1906
  • History of India / 2 / From the sixth Century BC to the Mohammedan conquest: including the invasion of Alexander the Great, 1907
  • A history of fine art in India and Ceylon from the earliest times to the present day, Oxford, 1911
  • The early history of India from 600 b. C. to the Muhammadan Conquest including the invasion of Alexander the Great, 3rd ed, Oxford, 1914
  • Akbar, the Great Mogul 1542-1605, Oxford, 1917
  • The Oxford history of India: from the earliest times to the end of 1911, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1920
  • (Ed.): François Bernier: Travels in the Mogul Empire, AD 1656-1668. Translated by Archibald Constable on the basis of Irving Brock's version, 1934, Reprint, Delhi: . Low Price Publications, 1994.
  • The Jain stupa and other antiquities of Mathura, 2nd ed, Varanasi: Indological Book House, 1969
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