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The committee's measures of sanitation provoked rioting and attacks against officers on plague duty (22 June 1897). There was famine in the country and thousands of refugees in Bombay. Campbell encouraged voluntary co-operation in inspection and other work. In June 1898 the plague administration was
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A memorial tablet on the ruined wall of the old Rosneath church paid tribute to the example set by Campbell during the plague outbreak in Bombay, attributing to it his premature death. Friends also founded a gold medal, conferred triennially by the Bombay branch of the
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examination in 1867, he went out to Bombay in November 1869, and served as an assistant collector. Two of his brothers lived with him in Bombay, John McLeod Campbell (d. 1888) of the Bombay civil service, and Robert Story Campbell, a merchant.
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After serving as collector of various districts, Campbell was from November 1891 stationed at Bombay as collector of land revenue, customs, and opium. In 1895 and 1897 he acted also there as commissioner of customs, salt, opium, and
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On 29 April 1898 Campbell left Bombay in bad health, resigning, on the expiry of his furlough, in April 1900. Residing with his brother Robert at his father's old home, Achnashie,
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in January 1885, and going home on his first furlough in that year was created hon. LL.D. of Glasgow University.
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at the end of 1901, in 34 volumes, and 26 sections; he himself wrote in those dealing with ethnology. In 1904
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and his wife Mary Campbell. Of his three brothers, the eldest, Donald (d. 1909), was rector of
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Campbell collected material on Indian history and folklore. He published a history of
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Campbell was recalled from furlough early in 1897 to aid in measures against the
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added three further volumes on the history of the town and island of Bombay.
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largely based the Bombay portions on Campbell's work. Campbell completed his
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added an index volume, and updated some earlier statistics; in 1910
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In June 1873 Campbell was asked to take on the compilation of the
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as chairman of a new plague committee at Bombay, and was made
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From April to August 1877, Campbell was on famine work in the
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Knights Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire
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Journal of the Bombay Branch, Royal Asiatic Society
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Index

Scottish
India
ethnologist
Bombay
Partick
Lanarkshire
John McLeod Campbell
Oakford, Devon
Glasgow Academy
Glasgow University
Indian Civil Service
Kaladgi district
CIE
abkari
third plague pandemic
Sir William Gatacre
KCIE
Rosneath
Royal Asiatic Society
Aurel Stein

Solapur district
Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency
William Wilson Hunter
The Imperial Gazetteer of India
Reginald Edward Enthoven
Stephen Meredyth Edwardes
Mandogarh
demonology
Harnetty, Peter

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