Dictionary of Indian Biography/Burgess, James
BURGESS, JAMES (1832–)
Born Aug. 14, 1832: educated at Dumfries, Glasgow, Edinburgh: went to India, 1855: engaged in educational work in Calcutta and Bombay: Archaeological Surveyor and Reporter for W. India, 1874: and for S. India, 1881: Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India, 1886: Fellow of the Bombay University: retired, 1889: attended the Geneva Oriental Congress, 1894, as representative of India: edited the Indian Antiquary, 1872–84: published scientific papers in the Philosophical Magazine, Archæological Survey Reports, Epigraphica Indica, 1889–94: published various archaeological works, as The Rock Temples of Elephanta, 1871: Temples of Somnath, Junaghar and Girnar, The Rock Temples of Ajanta, The Rock Temples of India (with J. Fergusson), 1880: Buddhist Art in India, 1901.