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Dictionary of Indian Biography G to I
Date transcribed | 2011-04-00 | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work. |
| Surnames | Hamilton | | First Name(s) | Alexander | | Year of Birth | 1762 | | Year of Death | 1824 | | Entry | Captain : in the military service of the E.I. Co. : M.A.S.B. : the date of his return to England is not recorded : prosecuted his study of Sanskrit at the British Museum and in Paris : when the war with France broke out again after the peace of Amiens, he was detained in Paris as a hostage : taught Sanskrit to French savants : made a Catalogue of the Sanskrit MSS. in the National Library at Paris, which was published by Langles {q.v.) : was Professor of Sanskrit at Haileybury, May, 1806-18 : F.R.S., 1808 : published the Hitopadesa in Sanskrit, 1811 : a treatise on the terms of Sanskrit grammar, 1815 : a key to the Chronology of the Hindus, 1820 : wrote articles on Ancient Indian Geography, and contributed to the Edinburgh Review : died Dec. 30, 1824. |
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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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