Dictionary of Indian Biography/Boulger, Demetrius Charles

2893014Dictionary of Indian Biography — Boulger, Demetrius CharlesCharles Edward Buckland

BOULGER, DEMETRIUS CHARLES (1853–)

Born July 14, 1853: educated at Kensington Grammar School and privately: has contributed to all the leading journals on questions relating to India, China, Egypt and Turkey since 1876: founded, in conjunction with Sir Lepel Griffin, the Asiatic Quarterly Review in 1885, and edited it for some years: author of Life of Yakub Beg of Kashgar, England and Russia in Central Asia, Central Asian Portraits, Armies of the Native States of India, Central Asian Questions, Lord William Bentinck, Story of India, India in the Nineteenth Century, History of China, of which several editions have been published. Life of Gordon, Life of Sir Stamford Raffles, etc.