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Sir John Hubert Marshall CIE FBA (19 March 1876, Chester, England – 17 August 1958, Guildford, England) was an English archaeologist who was Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India from 1902 to 1928.
Jun 25, 2024 · Sir John Hubert Marshall was an English director general of the Indian Archaeological Survey (1902–31) who in the 1920s was responsible for the large-scale excavations that revealed Harappā and Mohenjo-daro, the two largest cities of the previously unknown Indus Valley Civilization.
As one of the most important Director-Generals of the Archaeological Survey of India, he is primarily remembered as an excavator of Buddhist sites, especially ancient Taxila, in northern Punjab near Islamabad.
May 17, 2020 · When John Hubert Marshall (1876 – 1958) arrived in India, he had a very clear, and sweeping, brief: he was to conserve the subcontinent’s ancient heritage. Now Marshall was a young man of prodigious talent and a gifted archaeologist, even at that tender age.
Aug 17, 2017 · Sir John Marshall was born on March 19, 1876 in Chester, United Kingdom. He was at the forefront of the archeology era in India being a prominent scholar who focused on the Indian archaeology scene.
Sir John Hubert Marshall. CIE (19 March 1876, Chester, England – 17 August 1958, Guildford, England) was the Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India from 1902 to 1928.
Sir John Hubert Marshall (19 March 1876 Chester - 17 August 1958 Guildford) was the Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India from 1902 to 1928. He was responsible for the excavations that led to the discovery of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, two of the key city-sites of the Indus Civilisation.
What John Marshall accomplished in his long archaeological career as Director-General of Archaeology in India (1902- 1928) has scarcely been equalled in the present century and, while one may hesitate to see the Archaeological Survey as being "impersonated" by him, the spirit of Foucher's sentiment is correct.
Dec 27, 2015 · Archaeological surveys under the leadership of Sir John Marshall established the antiquity of India’s civilisation by pushing back the then existing earlier dates by another 3,000 years. Marshall’s surveys included Buddhist sites, monuments of the Indo-Greeks and the cities of the Indus.
JOHN MARSHALL 1876-1958 IF LORD CURZON, Viceroy of India (1899-1905), was the greatest patron and champion Indian archeology ever had, Sir John Hubert Marshall, C.I.E., Litt.D., F.B.A., was certainly one of its major architects. And it is well nigh impossible to think of the one without the other.
