Richard Burn (Indologist)

Sir Richard Burn, as photographed by Walter Stoneman, 1940.

Sir Richard Burn CSI (1 February 1871 – 26 July 1947) was an English civil servant in British India, historian of India and numismatist.[1] He was the editor of Volume IV of The Cambridge History of India and contributed four chapters to Volume VI of that work on the Indian political situation after 1900.

  1. ^ "BURN, Sir Richard", in Who Was Who, A & C Black, online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2014.