John Faithfull Fleet

Who was John Faithfull Fleet?

John Faithfull Fleet C.I.E was an English civil servant with the Indian Civil Services and became known as a historian, epigraphist and linguist. His research in Indian epigraphy and history, conducted in India over a thirty-year period, is published in books including "Pali, Sanskrit and Old Canarese Inscriptions", "The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of The Bombay Presidency from the earliest historical times to the Musalman Conquest", and "The Inscriptions of The Early Gupta Kings and their Successors". He was a regular contributor to works journals covering Indian history. His published well-regarded works on inscriptions in the Sanskrit, Pali and Kannada languages and on the history of dynasties such as the Guptas, Kadambas, Aulikaras, Chalukyas, Rashtrakutas and Seunas.