According to him what benefits would the East India Company gain after studying Vijayanagara?

Read the following passage and answer the following questions:          Born in 1754, Colin Mackenzie became famous as an engineer, surveyor and cartographer. In 1815, he was appointed as the first Surveyor General of India, a post he held till his death in 1821. He embark on collecting local histories and surveying historic sites in order to better understand India's past and make governance of the colony easier. He says that 'it struggled long under the miseries of bad management… before the South came under the benign influen ce o f th e British go vern m ent'. By studying Vijayanagara,... Show more

Read the following passage and answer the following questions:    
    
Born in 1754, Colin Mackenzie became famous as an engineer, surveyor and cartographer. In 1815, he was appointed as the first Surveyor General of India, a post he held till his death in 1821. He embark on collecting local histories and surveying historic sites in order to better understand India's past and make governance of the colony easier. He says that 'it struggled long under the miseries of bad management… before the South came under the benign influen ce o f th e British go vern m ent'. By studying Vijayanagara, Mackenzie believed that the East India Company could gain 'much useful information on many of these institutions, laws and customs whose influence still prevails among the various Tribes of Natives forming the general mass of the population to this day'.        

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