George Forster (traveller)

George Forster (died 1792) was an English traveller and civil servant of the East India Company, on the Madras establishment. He has sometimes been confused with Johann Georg Adam Forster.

Life

Forster undertook and safely accomplished in 1782 a journey from Calcutta overland into Russia. His journey took him through Kashmir and Afghanistan, then via Herat, Khorassan, and Mazanderan, to the Caspian Sea, which he crossed.

In 1792 he was sent on an embassy to the Mahrattas, and died at Nagpore.

Works

He published in England Sketches of the Mythology and Customs of the Hindoos (84 pp., 1785); and on his return to India he wrote an account of his journey, the first volume of which was published at Calcutta in 1790. The narrative of his journey was completed from his papers, and published in London by an unknown editor as A Journey from Bengal to England through the Northern part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, and Persia, and into Russia by the Caspian Sea (2 vols. 1798).

References

    Attribution

     This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Forster, George". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. 



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