INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Elphinstone transferred to the diplomatic service in 1801 as assistant to the resident at Pune; he was stationed at the court of the peshwa Baji Rao II, titular head of the Maratha confederacy.

Detailed explanation-2: -Notes: The Elphinstone code of the year 1827 introduce a uniform scheme of criminal law and after six years in 1833 an Act was passed providing for the enactment of laws. The first law commission was appointed with the law member of the Governor general in council.

Detailed explanation-3: -The principal outcome of Elphinstone’s mission was the collection of information about Afghanistan, mainly from Afghan informants because Elphinstone never went farther than Peshawar, then part of the Dorrānī empire.