George Bruce Malleson

Colonel George Bruce Malleson CSI (8 May 1825 – 1 March 1898) was an English officer in India and the author of several works on British Indian colonial history.

Educated at Wimbledon and Winchester, he obtained a cadetship in the Bengal Native infantry in 1842, and served through the second Burmese War.

[1][2] He was a prolific writer, his first work to attract attention being the famous "Red Pamphlet", published at Calcutta in 1857, when the Sepoy Mutiny was at its height.

He continued, and considerably rewrote the History of the Indian Mutiny 1857-8 (6 vols., 1878–1880), which was begun but left unfinished by Sir John Kaye.

[3][2] He authored the biographies of the Mughal Emperor Akbar, the French governor-general Dupleix[4] and the British officer Robert Clive for the Rulers of India series.