Colonel Kirkpatrick

About the Author Colonel Kirkpatrick (1754-1812), officially known as William Kirkpatrick, was an English East India Company officer, diplomat, and orientalist. He was an Persian interpreter in the East India Company army and served as Resident in princely states of Scindias and the Nizams of Hyderabad. He authored books like Grammar of the Hindoo Dialect and an Arabic and Persian Vocabulary (1782) and the Diary and Letters of Tippoo Sultaun (184), which is a collection of English translated works written in Persian attributed to the Mysore ruler.