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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Mackenzie    
First Name(s)  Colin    
Birth Year  1753?    
Death Year  1821    
Entry  Born about 1753 : went to India in 1782 and joined the Madras Engineers: rose to be Colonel in 1819 : stayed with friends at Madura, 1783, and formed plans of collecting materials for Indian history : was in the war of 1790-2 against Tippoo : after Seringapatam sent by Cornwallis to examine the geography of the ceded territory, including the Dekkan : at the siege of Pondicherry, 1793 : Commanding Engineer at the taking of Ceylon, 1796 : at the siege of Seringapatam, May, 1799 : surveyed Mysore, until 1810 : Surveyor- General of Madras, 1810 : commanded the Engineers in Java, 1811-15 : Surveyor- General of India, 1816 : died near Calcutta, May 8, 1821 : from 1783 he made extensive and valuable collections of Indian MSS., plans, tracts, drawings, antiquities, coins, statues, etc. : initiated detailed topographical surveys : wrote in the Oriental Annual Register and in Asiatic Researches : on the Life of Hyder Ali, the Bijyanagar and Unaganda Rajas, on the Bhats, or Indian bards : on buildings and sculptures, and on survey matters : his collections purchased from his widow for the E. I. Co. for £10,000 : a large portion of them sent to England : the S. India books and tracts made over to the Madras College Library, and later to the Madras Literary Society.     
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