George Bruce Malleson

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Colonel George Bruce Malleson {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CSI}} (8 May 1825 – 1 March 1898) was an English officer in India and the author of several works on British Indian colonial history.

Biography

Malleson was born in Wimbledon, son of John Malleson. Educated at Wimbledon and Winchester, he obtained a cadetship in the Bengal Native infantry in 1842, and served through the second Burmese War. His subsequent appointments were in the civil line, the last being that of guardian to the young maharaja of Mysore, Chamarajendra Wodeyar from 1869 to 1877. He retired with the rank of colonel in 1877, having been created C.S.I. in the 1872 Birthday Honours.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|pp=490–491}}{{sfn|Lloyd|1901}}

He was a prolific writer, his first work to attract attention being the famous "Red Pamphlet", published at Calcutta in 1857, when the Sepoy Mutiny was at its height. He continued, and considerably rewrote the History of the Indian Mutiny 1857-8 (6 vols., 1878–1880), which was begun but left unfinished by Sir John Kaye. Among his other books the most valuable are History of the French in India (2nd ed., 1893) and The Decisive Battles of India (3rd ed., 1888).{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=491}}{{sfn|Lloyd|1901}}

He authored the biographies of the Mughal Emperor Akbar, the French governor-general Dupleix{{cite journal|last=H. P.|title=Akbar (Rulers of India) by G. B. Malleson; Dupleix by G. B. Malleson|journal=Revue Historique|year=1891|volume=47|issue=2|pages=387–393|jstor=40938228}} and the British officer Robert Clive for the Rulers of India series.{{cite journal|last=H. P.|title=Lord Clive, (Rulers of India) by G. B. Malleson|journal=Revue Historique|year=1895|volume=59|issue=2|pages=404–408|jstor=40939319}}

He died at 27 West Cromwell Road, London, on 1 March 1898.{{sfn|Lloyd|1901}}

Works

{{cite book|author1=Charles Allen (of the Bengal Civil Service)|author2=George Bruce Malleson|title=A few words anent the 'red' pamphlet (i.e. The mutiny of the Bengal army, by G.B. Malleson) by one who has served under the marquis of Dalhousie (i.e. C. Allen)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WSJcAAAAQAAJ|year=1858}}
{{cite book|title=History of the Indian Mutiny, 1857–1858: Commencing from the close of the second volume of Sir John Kaye's History of the Sepoy War|url=http://www.ibiblio.org/britishraj/KayeMalleson.html}} Full text online at ibiblio.org (All six volumes, including the first two originally by Sir John Kaye, in HTML form, complete, chapter-by-chapter, with all illustrations, footnotes and a combined index)
[https://archive.org/stream/historyindianmu01mallgoog#page/n8/mode/2up Volume I]. 1878.
[https://archive.org/stream/historyofindianm03mall#page/n5/mode/2up Volume III]. 1880.
[https://archive.org/details/kayesandmalleson025010mbp Volume V]. 1889.
{{cite book|title=The Decisive Battles of India from 1746 to 1849|url=http://www.ibiblio.org/britishraj/MallesonBattles/index.html}} Pub. 1883. Full text online at ibiblio.org (In HTML form, complete, chapter-by-chapter, with all illustrations and footnotes)
{{cite book |title=The Indian Mutiny of 1857 |year=1891|url=https://archive.org/details/indianmutinyof00malliala }} Full text online at archive.org. Malleson's own condensed version of the six-volume history.
{{cite book|title=Akbar and the Rise of the Mughal Empire|url=http://www.ibiblio.org/britishraj/MallesonAkbar/index.html}} Pub. 1896. Full text online at ibiblio.org (In HTML form, complete, chapter-by-chapter, with all illustrations and footnotes)
[https://archive.org/details/historyoffrenchi00mallrich History of the French in India] 1893 (2nd revised ed.)
[https://archive.org/details/dupleix00mallgoog Dupleix and the Struggle for India by the European Nations] 1899
[http://www.wdl.org/en/item/12883/ History of Afghanistan, from the Earliest Period to the Outbreak of the War of 1878]. Pub. 1879. 2nd ed. London: W.H. Allen & Co. A [http://www.wdl.org/en/item/13488/ translation of this work] was used for training British military interpreters in the Pashto language.[http://www.wdl.org/en/item/13488/ History of Afghanistan: Official Text-Book for the Examination of Military Officers in Interpretership Pushtu]. World Digital Library, 13 January 2015.
{{cite book|title=Loudon: A Sketch of the Military Life of Gideon Ernest, Freiherr von Loudon|year=1884|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009669341}}
{{cite book|title=Ambushes and Surprises|year=1885|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000482410}}{{cite journal|title=Review of Ambushes and Surprises by Col. G. B. Malleson|journal=The Athenaeum|date=22 August 1885|issue=3017|page=231|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101077276432;view=1up;seq=163}}
{{cite book |title=The Refounding of the German Empire 1848–1871 |year=1893 |oclc=935202518 |url=https://archive.org/details/refoundinggerma00mallgoog}}

References

Other sources

{{EB1911|wstitle=Malleson, George Bruce|volume=17|pages=490–491}}
{{Cite DNBSupp|wstitle=Malleson, George Bruce|first=Ernest Marsh|last=Lloyd |author-link=Ernest Marsh Lloyd}}