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Dictionary of Indian Biography M to R

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Date transcribed	2011-08-00
Transcribed by	Peter Bailey
Comment	Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

	Surname	Moor
	First Name(s)	Edward
	Birth Year	1771
	Death Year	1848
	Entry	Major : born 1771 : went out to India in 1782 : reached Madras, 1783 : served with the Mahratta Army against Tippoo, 1790-1, at Dharwar, Doridrug, Gadjnur : wrote, 1794, an account of the operations : officiated as Q.M.G : garrison storekeeper, i.e. Commissary-General, at Bombay, 1799-1805 : retired in 1805 : compiled the military orders and regulations : Member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1796 : F.R.S., 1806 : F.S.A., 1818 : original member of the Royal Asiatic Society, which he helped to found : member of other learned societies : published his Hindu Pantheon, 1810 : wrote Hindu Infanticide, 1811 ; Oriental Fragments, 1834 : and on India in a Cyclopaedia : died Feb. 26, 1848.

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