273:, as a marker of the pressures to which rocks had been subjected. He was a founder member of the Mining and Geological Institute of India, and its president in 1922. After several periods as acting director, he was director of the Geological Survey of India from 1932 to 1935. He was a Trustee of the Indian Museum from 1930 to 1935, president of the 20th session of the
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325:(1915–2011), was raised and educated in England and did not visit his father in India; he later became well known for his travel writing. After he separated from his first wife, he married Frances Mary Case in 1933.
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