Lepel Griffin

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Sir Lepel Henry Griffin KCSI (1838-1908) was a British administrator and diplomat in India. He was also a writer.

He entered the Indian Civil Service in 1860. In 1880 he became Chief Secretary of the Punjab.[1] He was sent as a diplomatic representative to Kabul, at the end of the Second Afghan War.[2] He was then Governor-General's Agent in Central India and Resident in Indore; and Resident in Hyderabad.

He collaborated with the pioneer Indian photographer Lala Deen Dayal.[3]

He was a proponent of an Anglo-American union.[4]

[edit] Works

  • The Rajas of the Punjab (1873)
  • Famous monuments of Central India (1886)[2]
  • The Panjab Chiefs (1890) revised as Chiefs and Families of note in the Punjab (1909)
  • The Great Republic
  • Ranjit Singh and the Sikh Barrier Between Our Growing Empire and Central Asia

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by George Robert Aberigh-Mackay - Full Text Free Book (Part 3/3)
  2. ^ [1]
  3. ^ http://www.deendayal.com/lifesketch.htm
  4. ^ PDF