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Vincent Arthur Smith, {{small|CIE}}, (1848–1920) was a British Indologist and art historian.{{cn|date=August 2018}}

Biography

Smith was born in Dublin on 3 June 1848 which was then part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. His father was Dr Aquilla Smith, well known in medical and numismatic circles in Dublin and London.^[1]

He passed the Indian Civil Services exam in 1871 and was appointed to what would become the United Provinces in India. He would go to serve between 1871–1900 in a variety of magisterial and executive positions including terms as district and sessions judge eventually retiring as commissioner in July 1900.^[1]

By 1910 Smith was settled in Oxford where he joined St. John's College and was appointed a Curator of the Indian Institute.^[1]

After his return to England, Smith wrote books on various rulers such as the Buddhist emperor, Ashoka and the Mughal emperor, Akbar, and a history of fine arts in India and Ceylon. He also published two comprehensive volumes on Indian history, The Early History of India and The Oxford History of India.^[1]

Smith was honoured with the award of Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire^[2] and awarded a doctorate by Dublin University in 1919.^[1]

He died in Oxford on 6 February 1920.^[3]

Works

General index to the reports of the Archaeological Survey of India: Volumes I to XXIII, with a glossary and general table of contents, Simla, Government Central Press, 1887. - Varanasi: Indological Book House, 1969
Smith, Vincent Arthur (1893). Editor of William Henry Sleeman's [https://archive.org/details/b29352551_0001 Rambles and Recollections of an Indian official Volume 1], [https://archive.org/details/b29352551_0002 Rambles and Recollections of an Indian official Volume 2] Westminster Reprint edition of the 1893 (2 volumes)
Preface to Purna Chandra Mukherji: A report on a tour of exploration of the antiquities of Kapilavastu Tarai of Nepal during February and March, 1899, Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1901; Delhi Indological Book House, 1969.
Smith, Vincent Arthur (1901). [https://archive.org/details/asokabuddhistem00smitgoog Asoka, the Buddhist Emperor of India], 1 ed. Oxford 1901; 3rd ed., Rulers of India series, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1920
Smith, Vincent Arthur (1901). [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.21585 The Jain Stûpa and other antiquities of Mathurâ]
"The Kushān, or Indo-Scythian, Period of Indian History, B.C. 165 to A.D. 320," pp. 1–64 in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (London), 1903.
Smith, Vincent Arthur (1903). [https://archive.org/details/indiancivilservi00smitrich The Indian civil service as a profession. A lecture delivered at Trinity college, Dublin, on June 10th, 1903]
Smith, Vincent Arthur (1904). [https://archive.org/details/earlyhistoryofin00smit_0 The Early History of India, from 600 B. C. to the Muhammadan conquest]
Smith, Vincent Arthur (1906). [https://archive.org/details/pt1catalogueofcoins01indiuoft Catalogue of the coins in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, including the cabinet of the Asiatic Society of Bengal: Volume 1], The Early Foreign Dynasties and the Guptas, Oxford: Clarendon Press
{{cite book|last=Smith|first=Vincent Arthur|title=History of India: From Sixth century B.C. to Mohammedan Conquest|series=History of India|editor-first=A. V.|editor-last=Williams Jackson|editorlink=A. V. Williams Jackson|volume=2|year=1906|publisher=Grolier Society|location=London|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofindia02jack}}
Smith, Vincent Arthur (1911). [https://archive.org/details/historyoffineart00smit A history of fine art in India and Ceylon from the earliest times to the present day, First Edition]
[https://archive.org/details/historyoffineart035424mbp A history of fine art in India and Ceylon from the earliest times to the present day, Second Edition revised by K Codrington, 1930]
[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.11197 A history of fine art in India and Ceylon from the earliest times to the present day, Third Edition revised and enlarged by Karl Khandalavala, 1962]
{{cite book|last=Smith |first=Vincent Arthur|title=Akbar the Great Mogul, 1542-1605|url=https://archive.org/stream/cu31924024056503#page/n7/mode/2up|year=1917|publisher=Oxford: Clarendon Press}}
Smith, Vincent Arthur (1919) Second and revised edition to [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.5104 François Bernier's Travels in the Mogul Empire, AD 1656–1668, 1914]
Smith, Vincent Arthur (1919). [https://archive.org/details/TheOxfordHistoryOfIndia The Oxford history of India : from the earliest times to the end of 1911], Oxford : Clarendon Press
Smith, Vincent Arthur (1919). [https://archive.org/details/indianconstituti00smituoft Indian constitutional reform, viewed in the light of history], Oxford : University Press

References

1. ^¹²³⁴⁵{{cite journal|last=F. E. P.|title=Vincent Arthur Smith|journal=The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland|date=July 1920|issue=3|pages=391–395|jstor=25209644|subscription=yes}}
2. ^{{cite journal|last=Crooke|first=William|authorlink=William Crooke|title=Dr. Vincent Arthur Smith, C. I. E.|journal=Folklore|date=30 March 1920|volume=31|issue=1|page=87|jstor=1255017|doi=10.1080/0015587x.1920.9719131}}
3. ^The History of British India: A Chronology. by J F Riddick

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