Horace Arthur Rose (25 November 1867 – 18 September 1933) was an administrator in the
Indian Civil Service and also an author of works related to India in the time of the
British Raj.
Rose was the son of a merchant from
East Grinstead
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and was born on 25 November 1867.
He was educated at
St Paul's School and at
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
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, where he arrived from his home in Wallingford,
Surrey
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with the award of a scholarship.
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Rose passed the competitive examination for the Indian Civil Service in 1886 and arrived in India on 4
October 1888. Initially posted as an Assistant Commissioner in the Punjab, he was appointed Deputy Commissioner in March 1898 and in 1902 became Superintendent of the '' Gazetteer'' revision.]Indian Army during World War I
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Rose retired from the Indian Civil Service in 1918 and died at Saint Brélade, Jersey on 18 September 1933.][
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Publications
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**Volume 1 (1911)
Volume 2 (1911)
Volume 3 (1919)
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See also
* William Crooke
* Edward Albert Gait
* William Wilson Hunter
*H. H. Risley
Sir Herbert Hope Risley (4 January 1851 – 30 September 1911) was a British ethnography, ethnographer and colonial administrator, a member of the Indian Civil Service who conducted extensive studies on the tribes and castes of the Bengal ...
*Robert Vane Russell
*Edgar Thurston
References
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Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
People educated at St Paul's School, London
Indian Civil Service (British India) officers
Ethnographers
British anthropologists
1933 deaths
1867 births
People from Saint Brélade