# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/colin-mackenzie
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:04:34.004Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/colin-mackenzie"
name: "Colin Mackenzie"
slug: "colin-mackenzie"
description: "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. He was ordered to survey the Mysore region shortly after the British victory over Tipu Sultan in 1799 and produced the first maps of the region along with illustrations of the landscape and notes on archaeological landmarks. His collections consisting of thousands of manuscripts, inscriptions, translations, coins and paintings, which were acquired after his death by the India Office Library and are an important source for the study of Indian history. He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath on 4 June 1815."
tagline: "Surveyor General of India"
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gender: "male"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1754"
deathDate: "1821-05-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump