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“Nabob, Historian and Orientalist.” Robert Orme: The Life and Career of an East India Company Servant (1728–1801)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2009

Sinharaja Tammita Delgoda
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Robert Orme is probably now chiefly remembered as the author of the History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan. First published in 1763 and 1778, the History was widely admired in its time. Since then, however, Orme has been steadily displaced by later historians from James Mill onwards. The result is that today he is hardly read at all. The purpose of this article is to rescue Robert Orme from the anonymity to which he has been relegated.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , November 1992 , pp. 363 - 376
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1992

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