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Sir Alexander Mackenzie (1842-1902) was Lieutenant-governor of Bengal. He joined Indian Civil Service in 1862; was under-Secretary to Local Government. Bengal in 1866; Home Secretary to Government of India in 1882 and Chief Commissioner of Central Provinces (1887-90), and of Burma (1890-95) and became C.S.I. in 1890-95) and became K.C.S.I. in 1891. He suppressed hill tribe raids and restored order in 1892. As Lieutenant-governor of Bengal (1895-98) he did a sanitary survey of Calcutta , enlarged powers of Bengal municipalities, co-operated with Assam in Lushai expedition of 1895-96; expedityed land settlement operations in Bihar and orissa, dealt efficiently with the famine and the plague of 1896-97. he published History of the Relations of Government with the Hill Tribes of the North East Frontier of Bengal in 1884 (the present book). After his retirement he became chairman of the India Development company. He died on Nov. 10,1902