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JAMES TOD (1782-1835)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 1044 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES See also:TOD (1782-1835)  , See also:British officer and See also:Oriental See also:scholar, was See also:born on the loth of See also:March 1782, and went to See also:India as' a See also:cadet in the See also:Bengal See also:army in 1799 . He commanded the escort attached to the See also:resident with Sindia from 1812 to 1817 . In the latter See also:year he was in See also:charge of the Intelligence See also:Department which largely contributed to, break up the confederacy of Maratha chiefs in the Pindari See also:War, and was of See also:great assistance in the See also:campaign in See also:Rajputana . In 1818 he was appointed See also:political See also:agent for the states of western Rajputana, where he conciliated the chieftains, settled their mutual feuds and collected materials for his See also:Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan (2 vols., 1829-1832) . Another See also:book of value, Travels in Western India (1839), was published posthumously . He returned from India in 1823, was promoted See also:lieutenant-See also:colonel in 1826, and died in See also:London on the 17th of See also:November 1835 .

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