Return To England
Returning to England in 1829, after an interval of two years' travel, Elphinstone continued to influence public affairs. He twice refused the offer of the post of the Governor-General of India, preferring to finish his two-volume work, History of India (1841). It embraces the Hindu and Muslim periods, and is still a work of high authority. He died in Hookwood, Surrey, England on 20 November 1859.
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