Author: Murugan Swaminathan

Colonel Colin Mackenzie (1754–1821) was a Scottish military officer in the British East India Company and the first Surveyor General of India, a position he assumed in 1815. He was born in Stornoway, located on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. He left behind a massive collection of manuscripts and drawings gathered between 1784 and 1821. Collected mainly in southern India, but… Read more