Lieutenant-general Harold Wilberforce-Bell (1885 in Portington – 1956) was an officer of the British Indian Army[1][2] who served as the Resident minister for the Punjab States Agency from Lahore,[3][4] having previously served as an Agent to the Governor-General of India under the Deccan States Agency from Kolhapur.[5] He enlisted in the British Indian Army in 1905, and served in the Indian Political Department from 1910 to 1940.[6][7]
Wilberforce-Bell also authored some Indological books while in India, most notably Some Translations from the Marathi Poets (1913), A Grammatical Treatise of the Marathi Language (1914), The history of Kathiawad from the earliest times (1916), and several articles on British military history.[8] He also reported on the British Raj for The Sunday Times, The Yorkshire Post,[9] and The Times.[10] His papers are held at the British Library.[11]
Descended from landed gentry in Wiltshire,[12] he was also a member of the Athenaeum Club in London.[13] He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1938.[14]
Selected works
- Some Translations from the Marathi Poets (1913)
- A Grammatical Treatise of the Marathi Language (1914)
- The history of Kathiawad from the earliest times (1916)
See also
References
- ↑ WILBERFORCE-BELL, Harold. Persons of Indian Studies by Prof. Dr. Klaus Karttunen(22 October 2021). Retrieved 7 February 2024.
- ↑ Sources in British Political History, 1900-1951: Volume 2: A Guide to the Private Papers of Selected Public Services{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Springer(30 December 2015). ISBN 978-1-349-15566-8
- ↑ Maharaja{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Penguin Random House India Private Limited(26 August 2020). ISBN 978-93-5349-783-5
- ↑ Creating the Arabian Gulf: The British Raj and the Invasions of the Gulf{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Rowman & Littlefield(2009). ISBN 978-0-7391-2705-6
- ↑ Life of His Highness Raja Shreemant Sir Raghunathrao S.: Alias Babasaheb Pandit Pant Sachiv, K.C.I.E., Raja of Bhor{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. S. R. Sardesai(1951)
- ↑ Wonder in South Asia: Histories, Aesthetics, Ethics{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. State University of New York Press(1 November 2023). ISBN 978-1-4384-9529-3
- ↑ Sovereignty, Power, Control: Politics in the States of Western India, 1916-1947{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. BRILL(1999). ISBN 978-90-04-11343-5
- ↑ Portraits in the India Office Library and Records{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. British Library(1983). ISBN 978-0-7123-0015-5
- ↑ Englishness and Empire 1939-1965{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. OUP Oxford(11 October 2007). ISBN 978-0-19-164757-4
- ↑ Searching for Solace: A Biography of Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Interpreter of the Qur'an{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Searching for Solace(1994). ISBN 978-983-9154-00-9
- ↑ Papers of Lt-Col Sir Harold Wilberforce-Bell, Indian Army 1905, Indian Political Service 1910-40(1904–1956).
- ↑ A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Burke Publishing Company(1921)
- ↑ The Athenaeum: Two Hundred Years of the London Club{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Yale University Press(11 September 2020). ISBN 978-0-300-24677-3
- ↑ Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Kelly's Directories(1963)