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
- ↑ Karttunen, Klaus (22 October 2021). "WILBERFORCE-BELL, Harold". Persons of Indian Studies by Prof. Dr. Klaus Karttunen. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
- ↑ Cook, C.; Jones, P.; Sinclair, J.; Weeks, Jeffrey (30 December 2015). Sources in British Political History, 1900-1951: Volume 2: A Guide to the Private Papers of Selected Public Services. Springer. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-349-15566-8.
- ↑ Dass, Diwan Jarmani (26 August 2020). Maharaja. Penguin Random House India Private Limited. p. 97. ISBN 978-93-5349-783-5.
- ↑ Rich, Paul John (2009). Creating the Arabian Gulf: The British Raj and the Invasions of the Gulf. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 79. ISBN 978-0-7391-2705-6.
- ↑ Ranade, V. G. (1951). Life of His Highness Raja Shreemant Sir Raghunathrao S.: Alias Babasaheb Pandit Pant Sachiv, K.C.I.E., Raja of Bhor. Pune: S. R. Sardesai. p. 121. OCLC 29068518.
- ↑ Srinivas, Tulasi (1 November 2023). Wonder in South Asia: Histories, Aesthetics, Ethics. State University of New York Press. p. 171. ISBN 978-1-4384-9529-3.
- ↑ McLeod, John (1999). Sovereignty, Power, Control: Politics in the States of Western India, 1916-1947. BRILL. p. 307. ISBN 978-90-04-11343-5.
- ↑ India Office Library and Records; Rohatgi, Pauline (1983). Portraits in the India Office Library and Records. British Library. p. 244. ISBN 978-0-7123-0015-5.
- ↑ Webster, Wendy (11 October 2007). Englishness and Empire 1939-1965. OUP Oxford. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-19-164757-4.
- ↑ Sherif, M. A. (1994). Searching for Solace: A Biography of Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Interpreter of the Qur'an. Searching for Solace. p. 146. ISBN 978-983-9154-00-9.
- ↑ "Papers of Lt-Col Sir Harold Wilberforce-Bell, Indian Army 1905, Indian Political Service 1910-40". 1904–1956.
- ↑ Burke, Sir Bernard (1921). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain. Burke Publishing Company. p. 1295.
- ↑ Wheeler, Michael (11 September 2020). The Athenaeum: Two Hundred Years of the London Club. Yale University Press. p. 388. ISBN 978-0-300-24677-3.
- ↑ Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. Kelly's Directories. 1963. p. 1255.