Sir John Marshall, C.I.E

Abstract

Sra JOHN H. MARSHALL, it is reported by the Bombay correspondent of the Times, has been awarded the triennial gold medal for historical research by the Royal Asiatic Society of Bombay. Sir John Marshall, who was director-general of the Archæological Survey of India from 1902 until 1931, was formerly ar scholar of King's College, Cambridge, and was a student of the British School of Archaeology at Athens in 1898–99. He was Prendergast student in 1900–1 and Craven student in 1901–2, while in 1927 his old college made him an honorary fellow. Under his directorship, the work of the Archæological Survey of India has been much stimulated, especially in the direction of excavation of prehistoric and early historic sites. It was due to him that the work was undertaken which led to the epoch-making discovery of the prehistoric sites in the Indus Valley at Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, and on his initiative that the co-operation of investigators from outside the service, experienced in the exploration of the sites of Mesopotamia and with knowledge of the cultures of that area, was invited.