Vincent Arthur Smith, CIE, (1848–1920) was a British Indologist and art historian

Vincent Arthur Smith

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Vincent Arthur Smith

(Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920)

Books from the extended shelves:
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: Akbar the Great Mogul, 1542-1605 / (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1917) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: Akbar the Great Mogul, 1542-1605 / by Vincent A. Smith. (Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1919) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: Andhra; history and coinage. (Leipzig, in Commission bei F.A.Brockhaus, 1902) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: Asoka, the Buddhist emperor of India. (Oxford : The Clarendon Press, 1920) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: Asoka, the Buddhist emperor of India. (Oxford, Clarendon press, 1909) (page images at HathiTrust)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: Asoka, the Buddhist emperor of India. By Vincent A. Smith. (Oxford, Clarendon press, 1909) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: Catalogue of the coins in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, including the cabinet of the Asiatic Society of Bengal ... (Oxford, Clarendon press, 1906-), also by Indian Museum, H. Nelson Wright, and Asiatic Society of Bengal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: Catalogue of the coins in the Indian Museum, Calcutta : including the cabinet of the Asiatic Society of Bengal / (Oxford : Published for the Trustees of the Indian Museum at the Clarendon Press, 1906-), also by Indian Museum, India) Asiatic Society (Kolkata, and India) Asiatic Society (Calcutta (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: The coinage of the early or imperial Gupta dynasty of northern India. ([London, 1889]) (page images at HathiTrust)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: The early history of India from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan conquest : including the invasion of Alexander the Great / (Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: The early history of India from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan conquest, including the invasion of Alexander the Great, (Oxford, The Clarendon press, 1904) (page images at HathiTrust)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: The early history of India from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan conquest, including the invasion of Alexander the Great, by Vincent A. Smith. (Oxford, The Clarendon press, 1914) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: Essay on Clive; (London : Oxford University Press, 1921), also by Thomas Macaulay (page images at HathiTrust)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: A history of fine art in India and Ceylon, from the earliest times to the present day, (Oxford, Clarendon press, 1911) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: History of India. (London : The Grolier society, [c1906-07]), also by Alfred Comyn Lyall, William Wilson Hunter, H. M. Elliot, Stanley Lane-Poole, and Romesh Chunder Dutt, ed. by A. V. Williams Jackson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: The Indian civil service as a profession. A lecture delivered at Trinity college, Dublin, on June 10th, 1903. (Dublin, Hodges, Figgis, & co., ltd., 1903) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: Indian constitutional reform viewed in the light of history, (London, New York [etc.] H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1919) (page images at HathiTrust)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: The Jain stûpa and other antiquities of Mathurâ. (Allahabad, Printed by KFrank Luker, Superintendent, Government Press, North-Western Provinces and Oudh, 1901) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: The Jain teachers of Akbar / ([Poona : Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 1917]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: Notes on the Bhars and other early inhabitants of Bundelkhand. ([Calcutta, 1877]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: On Yuan Chwang's travels in India, 629-645 A.D.; (London, Royal Asiatic Society, 1904-05), also by Thomas Watters, ed. by Stephen W. Bushell and T. W. Rhys Davids (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: The Oxford history of India, from the earliest times to the end of 1911, (Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1920) (page images at HathiTrust)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: The Oxford student's history of India. (Oxford, Clarendon press, 1921) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: The Oxford student's history of India. (Oxford, At the Clarendon press, 1908) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: The Oxford student's history of India / (Oxford : The Clarendon press ; London ; New York [etc.] : H. Milford, 1916-1921) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: The Oxford student's history of India / by Vincent A. Smith. (Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press, 1921) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: The oxford student's history of India / by Vincent A. Smith. (Oxford : Clarendon Press ; London ; New York : Milford, 1919) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: The Oxford student's history of India / by Vincent A. Smith. (Oxford, The Clarendon press; London, New York [etc.] H. Milford, 1918) (page images at HathiTrust)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: The Oxford student's history of India, by Vincent A. Smith ... (Oxford : The Clarendon Press; London, New York [etc.] H. Milford, 1915) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920, ed.: Rambles and recollections of an Indian official. (Westminster, A. Constable and Company, 1893), by W. H. Sleeman, also ed. by Vincent Arthur Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: Rambles and recollections of an Indian official. (London : H. Milford, 1915), also by W. H. Sleeman (page images at HathiTrust)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: A report on a tour of explorations of the antiquities in the Tarai, Nepal, the region of Kapilavastu; during February and March, 1899. (Calcutta, Office of the superintendent of government printing, India, 1901), also by Purna Chandra Mukhopadhyay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: The statesmen of ancient India. ([Bombay, 1907]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920: Thoughts on Indian universities / (Bombay : East & West, 1908) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920, ed.: Travels in the Mogul empire, A.D. 1656-1668, (London, New York [etc.] H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1914), by François Bernier, also ed. by Vincent Arthur Smith, trans. by Archibald Constable and Archibald Constable (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
[X-Info] Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920, ed.: Travels in the Mogul empire, A.D. 1656-1668, (London, New York [etc.] H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1914), by François Bernier, also ed. by Vincent Arthur Smith, trans. by Archibald Constable and Archibald Constable (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)