James Burgess (archaeologist)

James Burgess CIE (1832^[1] - October 1916) MRAS, FRGS, was the founder of The Indian Antiquary in 1872^[2] and an important archaeologist of India in the nineteenth century.

Burgess was born in Kirkmahoe, Dumfriesshire, in 1832. He did educational work in Calcutta, 1856 and Bombay, 1861, and was Secretary of the Bombay Geographical Society 1868-73. He was Head of the Archaeological Survey, Western India, 1873, and of South India, 1881. From 1886-89 he was Director General, Archaeological Survey of India.^[1]

Selected publications

• The temples of Shatrunjaya. 1869.
• The rock temples of Elephanta. 1871.
• Temples of Somanath, Gunagadh and Girnar. 1870.
• Scenery and architecture in Guzarat and Rajputana. 1873.
• Notes on Ajanta paintings. 1879.
• The cave temples of India. 1880. (With James Fergussan)
• Archaeological survey of Western India. 9 vols., 1874 - 1905.
• Buddhist stupas of Amaravati, etc. 1887.
• Antiquities of Dabhoi. 1888.
• The Sharqi architecture of Jaiinpur. 1889. (Editor)
• Archaeological research in India. 1890.
• Epigraphia Indica. 1889-94. (2 vols.)
• On Hindu astronomy. 1893.
• Constable's hand-Gazetteer of India. 1898.
• Hypsometry by boiling-point. 1858 and 1863.
• Transliteration of Indian place-names. 1868, 1894-95.
• On the error-function definite integral. 1898. (awarded the Keith medal, R.S.E.)
• The Gandhara sculptures. 1899 and 1900.
• Buddhist art in India. 1901. (enlarged translation)
• The Indian sect of the Jainas. 1903. (translated and edited)
• Fergusson's Indian and eastern architecture. 1919. (enlarged edition)

References

External links

• Works by James Burgess at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about James Burgess at Internet Archive