page_title: John Crawfurd
section_title: Historian
hierarchical_section_title: John Crawfurd / Works / Historian
caption_attribution_description: Engraving of the Raja of Bliling (Buleleng)
context_page_description: John Crawfurd FRS was a Scottish physician, colonial administrator and diplomat, and author. He is now best known for his work on Asian languages, his History of the Indian Archipelago, and his role in founding Singapore as the last British Resident of Singapore; the position of Resident was replaced by the Governor of the Straits Settlements.
context_section_description: According to Jane Rendall's concept of "Scottish orientalism", Crawfurd is a historian of the second generation. His History of the Indian Archipelago (1820), in three volumes, was his major work. Crawfurd was a critic of much of what the European nations had done in the area of Asia he covered.
  An Historical and Descriptive Account of China (1836) was a joint work in three volumes from the Edinburgh Cabinet Library, with Hugh Murray, Peter Gordon, Thomas Lynn, William Wallace, and Gilbert Thomas Burnett.
caption: Engraving of the Rajah of Buleleng, from Crawfurd's History of the Indian Archipelago, vol. 3.
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