Author:Vincent Arthur Smith

Vincent Arthur Smith
(1848–1920)

Vincent Arthur Smith

Works

• Notes on the Bhars and Other Early Inhabitants of Bundelkhand (1877)
• General Index to the Reports of the Archaeological Survey of India (1887)
• Editing for W.H. Sleeman's Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official (1893)
• Asoka: The Buddhist Emperor of India (1901; 3rd rev. ed., Clarendon Press, 1920), part of the Rulers of India series
• The Jain Stûpa and Other Antiquities of Mathurâ (1901; reprinted Indological Book House, 1969)
• Preface to P.C. Mukherji's A Report on a Tour of Exploration of the Antiquities in the Tarai, Nepal, the Region of Kapilavastu, during February and March, 1899 (1901)
• Andhra: History and Coinage (1902)
• The Indian Civil Service as a profession (1903)
• Maps for T. Watters, T.W.R. Davids, and S.W. Bushell's On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India 629–645 A.D. (1904) (transcription project)
• Catalogue of the Coins in the Indian Museum Calcutta Including the Cabinet of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (1906)
  • Vol. 1. (transcription project)
  • Vol. 2. (transcription project)
  • Vol. 3. (transcription project)
• History of India, Vol. II: From the 6th Century B.C. to the Mohammedan Conquest, Including the Invasion of Alexander the Great (ed. by A.V. Williams Jackson, 1906) (transcription project)
  • 3rd rev. ed. as The Early History of India from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest Including the Invasion of Alexander the Great (Clarendon Press, 1914) (transcription project)
• Editing for A. Constable's translation of F. Bernier's Travels in the Mogul Empire A.D. 1656–1668 (Oxford, 1914; reprinted Low Price Publications, 1994) (transcription project)
• A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon from the Earliest Times to the Present Day (1911; 2nd. rev. ed., Clarendon Press, 1930)
• Akbar: The Great Mogul 1542–1605 (1917)
• The Jain Teachers of Akbar (1917)
• Indian Constitutional Reform Viewed in the Light of History (1919)
• The Oxford History of India from the Earliest Times to the End of 1911 (1920)
• Introduction, editing, and notes to T.B. Macaulay's Essay on Clive (new ed., Oxford, 1921)

Works about Smith

• "Smith, Vincent Arthur," in The Indian Biographical Dictionary, by C. Hayavadana Rao, Madras: Pillar & Co. (1915)
• "Obituary of Vincent Arthur Smith, C.I.E." by William Crooke in Folk-Lore, 31 (1920), p. 87
• "Smith, Vincent Arthur," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1927 supplement, London: Oxford University Press (1927)