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Edward Fenton Elwin
1853–1921
An Anglican priest and missionary writer, he spent decades in western India and turned that experience into books about everyday life, religion, and mission work under the British Raj. His writing offers a firsthand glimpse of Bombay, Poona, and colonial-era India as he saw them.
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India and the Indians
by Edward Fenton Elwin
About the author
Born in 1853 and dead by 1921, Edward Fenton Elwin is known today mainly for nonfiction books drawn from his years in India as a priest and missionary. Reliable catalog and public-domain sources link him to works including Indian Jottings, Thirty-Nine Years in Bombay City, Forty-Five Years in Poona City, and India and the Indians.
His books focus on social customs, religion, city life, and Christian mission work, especially in Bombay and Poona. Because the strongest sources available here are catalogs and digitized editions rather than full biographical studies, it is safest to describe him as a churchman and observer of colonial India whose writing was shaped by long personal experience there.
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