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Kenelm George Digby
Kenelm George Digby (23 March 1890 – 25 September 1944) was a British civil administrator and High Court judge in India. Digby was the son of Colonel T. Digby and Alice Isabella Sherard. He was educated at Haileybury College and studied classics at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1913 he passed the entrance requirements for the Indian Civil Service and was appointed in 1914. From 1916 to 1920 he underwent military service: he was 2nd Lieutenant IARO 95th Russell's Infantry, 1916; Lieutenant IARO 111th Maharajas, 1917; and was attached to Southern Command Headquarters at Poona in 1918. In 1943 he was appointed Puisne Judge High Court of Judicature at Nagpur. In 1926 Digby married Violet M. Kidd and they had one son, Simon Digby (oriental scholar), Simon Digby, later to become a noted oriental scholar. Digby died on 25 September 1944. Sources *"Digby, Kenelm George", ''Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008''; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 200accessed 13 Feb 2009 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations average to between 73–55 ka.", "Modern human beings—''Homo sapiens''—originated in Africa. Then, int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |