Balkrishna Atmaram Gupte (1851–1925) was the assistant Director of Ethnography of India under Sir
Herbert Hope Risley
Sir Herbert Hope Risley (4 January 1851 – 30 September 1911) was a British ethnographer and colonial administrator, a member of the Indian Civil Service who conducted extensive studies on the tribes and castes of the Bengal Presidency. ...
and later an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London. He was the author of "Hindu Holidays And Ceremonials" and several other books. Later he was a professor at Calcutta. He was awarded the title "
Rai Bahadur
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Rai Bahadurs
19th-century Indian social scientists
20th-century Indian social scientists
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