[2](described in his obituary in the United Services Magazine as " a sort of college formed to receive the cadets, and teach and discipline them on their first arrival in the country")[3] In 1802 Broughton was appointed military resident with the Mahrattas.
During this period he also collected Hindi poems from oral tradition, publishing his transcriptions and translations as Selections from the Popular Poetry of the Hindoos (1814).
[4] He left for England at the end of 1811 and returned to India in August 1815, having been promoted to the rank of major.
He was then appointed to the command of Weltevreden on Java, but by the time he arrived on the island in April 1816, preparations were being made to hand it back to the Dutch, and so he was returned to Bengal.
[2] On his return from India he became honorary secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society, and travelled widely in Britain and southern Europe.