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.
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Crop from Thomas Hickey's painting
Mackenzie's map of southern India (1808)
Watercolour from the Mackenzie collection showing Nandidrug in October 1791 with the batteries firing. The positions of the batteries was decided by Mackenzie and Lord Cornwallis commended Mackenzie for his role in the victory over Tipu Sultan.
Inscriptions in Mudgeri and at Amaravati (1809)
This inscription was found at Ngendat near Malang and gifted by Raffles to Lord Minto who took it back home and now goes by the name of Minto Stone.
1816 map of Pondicherry signed by Colin Mackenzie (National Archives of India)
Cover of Saturday Magazine 28 June 1834 carrying Sir Alexander Johnston's evidence placed before a Committee of the House of CommonsAwards 1
Writers born in the 1750s 6
About this person
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.
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