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These books come from an Anglican missionary writer who spent years in western India and wrote closely observed accounts of life in Poona and Bombay. His work mixes travel writing, social description, and mission history, offering a distinctly early-20th-century view of India under British rule.
Remembered today mainly through public-domain books, Edward Fenton Elwin wrote India and the Indians, Indian Jottings, Thirty-Nine Years in Bombay City, and Forty-Five Years in Poona City. Catalog records from Project Gutenberg and the Online Books Page show that his published work focused on India, especially Bombay and Poona, and on the history of Christian mission activity there.
The titles themselves suggest the shape of his career: he was closely connected with Anglican mission work and wrote from long experience rather than from a brief visit. His books combine everyday observation with religious and historical commentary, which makes them useful both as travel-era reading and as documents of the colonial missionary mindset.
Reliable biographical details beyond his writings are scarce in the sources I could confirm here, so it is safest to see him as an early-20th-century British missionary author whose surviving reputation rests on his accounts of Indian society and mission life.