Henry Beveridge

Henry Beveridge (9 February 1837 – 8 November 1929) was an Indian Civil Service officer and Orientalist in British India.

Life and family

He married Annette Akroyd, one of the first graduates of Bedford College and translator of Persian and Turki texts. The couple had two children: a daughter, Annette Jeanie Beveridge (d. 1956), who married R. H. Tawney,^[1] and a son, William Beveridge (1879–1963), a noted economist who gave his name to the report associated with the foundation of the welfare state.^[2]

Henry Beveridge lived at Pitfold, Shottermill, Surrey, England and died in 1929.^[2]

Works

• Life and Manners in Bengal
• Christianity in India
• Were Sundarbans Inhabited in Ancient Times?
• Timur’s Apocryphal Memoirs
• The Trial of Maharaja Nanda Kumar, A Narrative of a Judicial Murder (১৮৮৬) (1886)
• District of Bakarganj: Its History and Statistics ১৮৭৬
• Warren Hastings in Lower Bengal
• The Story of Nuncumar and the Impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey

Translations Works

• The Tūzuk-i-Jahangīrī Or Memoirs Of Jahāngīr, Alexander Rogers and Henry Beveridge. London, Royal Asiatic Society, 1909–1914.
• The Akbarnama of Abu-L-Fazl, Vol. I & II, Delhi: Low Price Publications, (1902–39, Reprint 2010). ISBN 81-7536-482-3.
• The Akbarnama of Abu-L-Fazl, Vol. III, Delhi: Low Price Publications, (1902–39, Reprint 2010). ISBN 81-7536-483-1.
• The Akbarnama of Abu-L-Fazl, Set of 3 Volumes, Bound in 2, Delhi: Low Price Publications, (1902–39, Reprint 2010). ISBN 81-7536-481-5.

See also

• Akbarnama

Further reading

• Fazl, Abul; H. Beveridge (trans.) (1897–1939). The Akbarnama (Vol. I-III). Asiatic Society, Calcutta. 

References

• William Beveridge, India Called Them, London, 1947;
• M D Hussain, 19th Century Indian Historical Writing In English, Calcutta, 1992.

External links

• Works by Henry Beveridge at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Henry Beveridge at Internet Archive
• Works by Henry Beveridge at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)