Lieutenant-general Harold Wilberforce-Bell K.C.I.E. (1885 in Portington – 1956) was a British officer in the British Raj, [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] He 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] Descended from landed gentry in Wiltshire, [11] he was also a member of the Athenaeum Club in London. [12] He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1938. [13]
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Lieutenant-general Harold Wilberforce-Bell K.C.I.E. (1885 in Portington – 1956) was a British officer in the British Raj, [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] He 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] Descended from landed gentry in Wiltshire, [11] he was also a member of the Athenaeum Club in London. [12] He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1938. [13]
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