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Foreign Administrators and Scholars who helped in Revival of Indian History

     JAMES RENNEL

He 1782 produced the first map of India in 1782 on the direction of Robert Clive.



COLIN MACKENZIE


Colin Mackenzie was an engineer, surveyor and cartographer.  In 1815 he was appointed the first Surveyor General of India till his death in 1821.



JAMES MILL


James Mill was a Scottish economist and political philosopher. In 1817, he published A History of British India in three Volumes dividing Indian history into three periods – Hindu, Muslim and British.


 

CHARLES MANON


He was the person who in 1826, first noticed high walls and towers at Harappa and mistakenly thought these structures belonged to the time of Alexander.



ALEXANDER CUNNINGHAM


He was the first Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) which was founded in 1861. He is also called as the father of Indian archaeology.



JOHN MARSHALL


He was John Marshall, Director -General of the ASI who in 1924, announced the discovery of a new Indus Valley Civilisation to the world.



SIR ROBERT ERIC MORTIMER WHEELER (R.E.M. WHEELER)


R.E.M. Wheeler, took over as Director- General of the ASI in 1944. He was ex-army brigadier. He is a supporter of  the Aryan Invasion Theory.


 


VERRIER ELWIN OR HARRY VERRIER HOLMAN ELWIN


He was a British-born Indian anthropologist, ethnologist and tribal activist, who began his career in India as a Christian missionary. He visited the land of the Baigas – a tribal group in central India. He first abandoned the clergy, to work with Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress, then converted to Hinduism in 1935 after staying in a Gandhian ashram. 


WILLIAM CAREY


He was a Scottish missionary who helped to establish the Serampore Mission under the control of the Danish East India Company. A printing press was set up in 1800 and a college established in 1818.


FRANCOIS SOLVYN


He was a Dutch painter who came to India in the late 18th century. He tried to depict the everyday life of people in his paintings.


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