HARGREAVES, Harold. 29.5.1876 — 1951. British Archaeologist in India. In 1897 visited Ceylon. For a while served as headmaster of the Government High School in Amritsar. Worked in A.S.I. from at least 1909, Superintendent of Frontier Circle, then of Northern Circle, and again of Frontier Circle. From 1924 Deputy Director General under Marshall. In 1928-31 its Director General. Conducted excavations in the North-West: Shaji-ki-Dheri 1909-11, Takht-i-Bahi 1911-12, Jamalgarhi 1920-22. In the twenties he found the chalcolithic remains at Nal in Baluchistan. Married.
Publications: Reports in ASIAR.
– The Buddha story in stone (An interpretation of thirty-four Graeco-Buddhist sculptures in the Lahore Museum). 4+43 p. Calcutta 1914.
– Excavations in Baluchistan, 1925, Sampur Mound, Mastung and Sohr Damb, Nāl. 4+89 p. 24 pl. M.A.S.I. 35. Calcutta 1929.
– Handbook to the Sculptures in the Peshawar Museum. Rev. ed. 111 p. 10 pl. Calcutta 1930 (first ed. 1909 by D. B. Spooner).
Sources: Wikipedia; stray notes in Internet, publications in worldcat.org.
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