Colin Mackenzie
Colonel Colin Mackenzie was a Scottish army officer in the British East India Company who later became the first Surveyor General of India. He was a collector of antiquities and an orientalist and an indologist. He surveyed southern India, making use of local interpreters and scholars to study religion, oral histories, inscriptions and other evidence, initially out of personal interest, and later as a surveyor.
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- Dollar Academy
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- 🏆 Fellow of the Royal Society
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1754
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