Harry Charles Purvis Bell
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Harry Charles Purvis Bell (1851 – 1937), more often known as HCP Bell, was a British civil servant and a commissioner in the Ceylon Civil Service. He was born in British India.
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Biography
Appointed an official archaeologist,[1] he carried out many excavations in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) for the Archaeological Survey during an appointment running from 1890 to 1912.[2]
After retirement, he also investigated the archaeology and epigraphy of the Maldives, where he had been earlier in his life.[3] and studied the linguistics of the Maldivian language. Bell had developed a good friendship with the king of the Maldives, who put his own royal schooner Fath-ul-Majid at his disposition to carry out archaeological research in certain atolls south of Malé.[4]
Works
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- The Maldive Islands. Report on a Visit to Málé, Colombo, 1921.
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See also
Notes
- ↑ Department of Archaeology - History
- ↑ Robin W. Winks, Alaine M. Low, The Oxford History of the British Empire (1999), p. 244.
- ↑ [1], [2]
- ↑ Romero Frías 2003.
Bibliography
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