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Horace Arthur Rose (25 November 1867 – 18 September 1933) was an administrator in the
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and also an author of works related to India in the time of the
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. Rose was the son of a merchant from
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and was born on 25 November 1867. He was educated at St Paul's School and at
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, where he arrived from his home in Wallingford,
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with the award of a scholarship. 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
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, he was appointed Deputy Commissioner in March 1898 and in 1902 became Superintendent of the ''
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'' revision. He was Superintendent for the Punjab census in 1901 and from then until 1906 was also Superintendent of Ethnography for that province. From 1906 to 1913 he was a District Judge in the court of District and Sessions of the Punjab, and from then was appointed Judge. He was appointed the rank of Honorary
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in the
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. Rose retired from the Indian Civil Service in 1918 and died at
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,
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on 18 September 1933.


Publications

* * * * **Volume 1 (1911)
Volume 2 (1911)

Volume 3 (1919)
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See also

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William Crooke William Crooke (6 August 1848 – 25 October 1923) was a British orientalist and a key figure in the study and documentation of Anglo-Indian folklore. He was born in County Cork, Ireland, and was educated at Erasmus Smith's Tipperary Grammar S ...
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Edward Albert Gait Sir Edward Albert Gait (1863–1950) was an administrator in the Indian Civil Service who rose to serve as Lieutenant-Governor of the Bihar and Orissa Province in the Bengal Presidency of British India. He held that office for the years 1915–19 ...
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William Wilson Hunter Sir William Wilson Hunter (15 July 18406 February 1900) was a Scottish historian, statistician, a compiler and a member of the Indian Civil Service. He is most known for ''The Imperial Gazetteer of India'' on which he started working in 1869, ...
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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 ...
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Robert Vane Russell Robert Vane Russell (8 August 1873 – 30 December 1915) was a British civil servant, known for his role as Superintendent of Ethnography for what was then the Central Provinces of British India, coordinating the production of publications deta ...
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Edgar Thurston Edgar Thurston CIE (1855– 12 October 1935) was the British Superintendent at the Madras Government Museum from 1885 to 1908 who contributed to research studies in the fields of zoology, ethnology and botany of India, and later also publish ...


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rose, Horace Arthur 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