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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  1. ^ Karttunen, Klaus (22 October 2021). "WILBERFORCE-BELL, Harold". Persons of Indian Studies by Prof. Dr. Klaus Karttunen. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  2. ^ Cook, C.; Jones, P.; Sinclair, J.; Weeks, Jeffrey (30 December 2015). Sources in British Political History, 1900-1951: Volume 2: A Guide to the Private Papers of Selected Public Services. Springer. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-349-15566-8.
  3. ^ Dass, Diwan Jarmani (26 August 2020). Maharaja. Penguin Random House India Private Limited. p. 97. ISBN 978-93-5349-783-5.
  4. ^ Rich, Paul John (2009). Creating the Arabian Gulf: The British Raj and the Invasions of the Gulf. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 79. ISBN 978-0-7391-2705-6.
  5. ^ Ranade, V. G. (1951). Life of His Highness Raja Shreemant Sir Raghunathrao S.: Alias Babasaheb Pandit Pant Sachiv, K.C.I.E., Raja of Bhor. Pune: S. R. Sardesai. p. 121. OCLC 29068518.
  6. ^ Srinivas, Tulasi (1 November 2023). Wonder in South Asia: Histories, Aesthetics, Ethics. State University of New York Press. p. 171. ISBN 978-1-4384-9529-3.
  7. ^ McLeod, John (1999). Sovereignty, Power, Control: Politics in the States of Western India, 1916-1947. BRILL. p. 307. ISBN 978-90-04-11343-5.
  8. ^ India Office Library and Records; Rohatgi, Pauline (1983). Portraits in the India Office Library and Records. British Library. p. 244. ISBN 978-0-7123-0015-5.
  9. ^ Webster, Wendy (11 October 2007). Englishness and Empire 1939-1965. OUP Oxford. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-19-164757-4.
  10. ^ Sherif, M. A. (1994). Searching for Solace: A Biography of Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Interpreter of the Qur'an. Searching for Solace. p. 146. ISBN 978-983-9154-00-9.
  11. ^ Burke, Sir Bernard (1921). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain. Burke Publishing Company. p. 1295.
  12. ^ Wheeler, Michael (11 September 2020). The Athenaeum: Two Hundred Years of the London Club. Yale University Press. p. 388. ISBN 978-0-300-24677-3.
  13. ^ Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. Kelly's Directories. 1963. p. 1255.


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