​BELL, THOMAS EVANS (1825–1887)

Major: born Nov. 11,1825: son of William Bell: educated at Wandsworth: went ​to Madras in the E. I. Go's military service, 1841: joined the 2nd Madras Europeans: appointed Assistant Commissioner at Nagpur, 1855, lost his appointment, 1860, for insubordination to the Chief Commissioner in advocating the claims of the dispossessed ruling family: all the measures recommended by Major Bell were, however, approved and carried out by Lord Canning, and he was appointed Deputy Commissioner of Police at Madras, 1861: retired 1863: devoted the remainder of his life to advocating measures for the benefit of India and its people: wrote The Task of Today, 1852: The English in India, 1859: The Empire in India, 1864: Remarks on the Mysore Blue Book, 1866: The Mysore Reversion, 1865: Retrospects and Prospects of Indian Policy, 1868: The Oxus and the Indus, 1869: 1874: The Great Parliamentary Bore, 1869: Our Great Vassal Empire, 1870, The Bengal Reversion, 1872: Last Counsels of an Unknown Counsellor, 1877: Memoirs of General John Briggs, 1886: died Sep. 12, 1887.