ColonelColin Mackenzie (1754–8 May 1821) was a Scottish army officer in the British East India Company who later became the first Surveyor General of India. He was a collector of antiquities and an orientalist and an indologist. He surveyed southern India, making use of local interpreters and scholars to study religion, oral histories, inscriptions and other evidence, initially out of personal interest, and later as a surveyor. He was ordered to survey the Mysore region shortly after the British victory over Tipu Sultan in 1799 and produced the first maps of the region along with illustrations of the landscape and notes on archaeological landmarks. His collections consisting of thousands of manuscripts, inscriptions, translations, coins and paintings, which were acquired after his death by the India Office Library and are an important source for the study of Indian history. He was awarded a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 4 June 1815.
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![Painting by [[Thomas Hickey (painter)|Thomas Hickey]] (1816). Suggested identities of the persons from left to right are Dhurmia, a Jain pandit holding a [[palm-leaf manuscript]], Cavelli Venkata Lechmiah, a Telugu Brahmin pandit, Colin Mackenzie in the red uniform of the East India Company and Kistnaji, a peon holding a telescope.<ref name=blj /> The background was said by early commentators to be the statue of [[Bahubali|Gomateshwara]] at [[Shravanabelagola]] but Howes (2010) identifies it as [[Karkala]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Jennifer|last=Howes| title=Illustrating India: The Early Colonial Investigations of Colin Mackenzie (1784–1821).| publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2010|place=New Delhi}}</ref> The hill to the left of the statue has a basket-and-pole used by the [[Great Trigonometrical Survey]].<ref name=blj />](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Colonel_Colin_Mackenzie_and_his_Indian_pandits_by_Thomas_Hickey.jpg)
Colonel Colin Mackenzie (1754–8 May 1821) was a Scottish army officer in the British East India Company who later became the first Surveyor General of India. He was a collector of antiquities and an orientalist and an indologist. He surveyed southern India, making use of local interpreters and scholars to study religion, oral histories, inscriptions and other evidence, initially out of personal interest, and later as a surveyor. He was ordered to survey the Mysore region shortly after the British victory over Tipu Sultan in 1799 and produced the first maps of the region along with illustrations of the landscape and notes on archaeological landmarks. His collections consisting of thousands of manuscripts, inscriptions, translations, coins and paintings, which were acquired after his death by the India Office Library and are an important source for the study of Indian history. He was awarded a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 4 June 1815.
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