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Colin Mackenzie

Born in 1754, Colin Machenzie became famous as an engineer, surveyor and cartographer. In 1815 he was appointed the first Surveyor General of India, a post he held till his death in 1821. He embarked on collecting local histories and surveying historic sites in order to better understand India?s past and make governance of the colony easier. He says that ?it struggled long under the miseries of bad management,? before the South came under the benign Influence of the British government.? By studying Vijayanagara, Mackenzie believed that the east India Company could gain ?much useful information on many of these institutions, laws and customs ?whose influence still prevails among the various Tribes of Natives forming the general mass or the population to this day.?

(i) Who was Colin Mackenzie?

(i) How did Mackenzie try to rediscover the Vijayanagara Empire?

(iii) How was the study of the ViJayanagara Empire useful to the East India Company?

Answer:

(i) Colin Mackenzie was a famous engineer, surveyor and cartographer. He surveyed historic sites in order to better understand India?s past and make governance of the colony easier.

(ii) He embarked on collecting local histories and surveying historic sites in order to better understand India?s past which included Vijayanagara in South of India.

(iii) By studying Vijayanagra, Mackenzie believed that the East India Company could gain useful information on many of these institution laws and customs whose influence still prevails among the various Tribes of natives forming the general mass of population of this day.