Frederick Eden Pargiter (1852–18 February 1927) was a British civil servant and Orientalist.
Born in 1852, Pargiter was the second son of Rev. Robert Pargiter. He studied at
Taunton Grammar School and
Exeter College, Oxford
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where he passed in 1873 with a first-class in mathematics. Pargiter passed the
Indian Civil Service
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Its members ruled over more than 3 ...
examinations and embarked for India in 1875.
Pargiter served in India from 1875 to 1906 becoming Under-Secretary to the
Government of Bengal in 1885, District and Sessions Court judge in 1887 and a judge of the
Calcutta High Court
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in 1904. Pargiter voluntarily retired in 1906 following the death of his wife and returned to the United Kingdom.
Pargiter died at
Oxford
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on 18 February 1927 in his seventy-fifth year.
In his ''Ancient Indian Historical Tradition'', taking the accession of
in 321 BC as his reference point, Pargiter dated the Battle of Kurukshetra to 950 BC assigning an average of 14.48 years for each king mentioned in the
Puranic lists
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1852 births
1927 deaths
Indian Civil Service (British India) officers
Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford
British orientalists
Judges of the Calcutta High Court
British India judges