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'''Herbert Niel Randle''' [[Order of the Indian Empire|C.I.E.]] [[Fellow of the British Academy|F.B.A.]] (1880–1973), commonly known as '''H. N. Randle''', was the librarian of the [[India Office Records|India Office Library]] (1933–49; assistant librarian 1927–33),<ref>India Office Library & Records Report 1 Apr. 1972 to 31 December 1973, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 1972, pg 5</ref> professor of philosophy at Queen's College, [[Benares]]<ref>British Universities Encyclopaedia, Athenaeum Press, 1940, pg 151</ref> and a writer on [[Indian philosophy]].<ref>Fragments from [[Dignāga|Dinnaga]], Herbert Niel Randle, Motilal Banarsidass Indological Publishers, Booksellers & Exporters, 1981</ref><ref>A Source Book in Indian Philosophy, ed. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan & Charles A. Moore, Princeton University Press, 2014, pg 660</ref><ref>[[Thomas Burrow|Burrow, T.]] (1974) [http://publications.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/pubs/proc/files/60p431.pdf Herbert Niel Randle 1880-1973] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928050156/http://publications.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/pubs/proc/files/60p431.pdf |date=28 September 2020 }}, ''Proceedings of the British Academy'', Vol.60, 431-46.</ref>

His son, [[John Niel Randle]], was posthumously awarded a [[Victoria Cross]] for valour at the [[Battle of Kohima]] in 1944.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=36833|supp=y|page=5673|date=8 December 1944}}</ref>

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