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 Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C

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Date transcribed2011-01-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Bell    
First Name(s)  Thomas Evans    
Year of Birth  1825    
Year of Death  1887    
Entry  Major : born Nov. 11,1825 : son of William Bell : educated at Wandsworth : went to Madras in the E. I. Co's military service, 1841 : joined the 2nd Madras Europeans : appointed Assistant Commissioner at Nagpur, 1855, lost his appointment, 1860, for insubordination to the Chief Commissioner in advocating the claims of the dispossessed ruling family : all the measures recommended by Major Bell were, however, approved and carried out by Lord Canning, and he was appointed Deputy Commissioner of Police at Madras, 1861 : retired 1863 : devoted the remainder of his life to advocating measures for the benefit of India and its people : wrote The Task of To-day, 1852 : The English in India, 1859 : The Empire in India, 1864 : Remarks on the Mysore Blue Book, 1866 : The Mysore Reversion, 1865 : Retrospects and Prospects of Indian Policy, 1868 : The Oxus and the Indus, 1869 : 1874: The Great Parliamentary Bore, 1869 : Our Great Vassal Empire, 1870, The Bengal Reversion, 1872 : Last Counsels of an Unknown Counsellor, 1877 : Memoirs of General John Briggs, 1886 : died Sep. 12, 1887.     
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