its first and only volume was published at Calcutta in 1849. His manuscripts were edited posthumously by John Dowson and published in The History of India as Told by Its Own Historians. A much lesser-known work titled, Appendix to the Arabs in Sind, Vol.III, Part 1, of the Historians of India was written when he was on his deathbed and wrote it to apparently test the powers of his mind which he had doubted. The History of India as Told by Its Own Historians: The Muhammadan Period, The Posthumous Papers of the Late H. M. Elliot, edited by John Dowson; in 8 volumes (1867–77) Memoirs on the History, Folk-lore, and Distribution of the Races of the North Western Provinces of India: Being an Amplified Edition of the Original Supplemental Glossary of Indian Terms, edited by John Beames; in 2 volumes (1869) References Further reading External links Memorial to Henry Miers Elliot at St Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta 1808 births 1853 deaths English knights 19th-century British historians British East India Company civil servants People educated at Winchester College English Indologists Alumni of New College, Oxford People from Westminster Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath English male non-fiction writers 19th-century British male writers 19th-century British writers Indian Civil Service (British India) officers