Risley, Herbert Hope, Sir, 1851-1911
Variant names1873 Indian Civil Service; 1875 assistant to Sir William Hunter; 1879 under-secretary, government of India, home department; 1890 member and secretary to the police commission; 1891 officer of the French Academy; 1891 secretary, government of Bengal; 1892 CIE; 1892-1893 and 1895-1898 member of the provincial legislative council of Bengal; 1896 corresponding member of the Berlin Antropological Society; 1901 honourary director of ethnography for India; 1902 corresponding member of the Rome Antropological Society; 1902-1909 financial secretary, government in India; 1904 CSI; 1909 home member, Viceroy's council; 1910 permanent secretary in the judical and public department, India Office.
Epithet: administrator in India and anthropologist
Title: Knight
British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001440.0x000323
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| referencedIn | RIPON PAPERS. Vol. CII (ff. 335). Letters from:-(1) Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Govemor of Madras; 1880. ff. 1-57. (2) Sir Ashley Eden,K.C.S.I., Lieutenant-Govemor of Ben..., 1880-1883 | British Library | |
| referencedIn | India papers, 1737-1947. | Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library | |
| creatorOf | Papers of Sir Herbert Hope Risley (1851-1911), Indian Civil Service, Bengal 1873-1910, Census Commissioner for India 1899-1902, Hon Director of Ethnography for India from 1901, relating to caste and ethnography in Bengal, Bihar, Orissa and Chota Nagp..., 1886-1911 | British Library | |
| creatorOf | Papers of Sir Herbert Risley, Indian Civil Service, Bengal 1873-1910, relating to census operations, caste, and ethnography in Bengal, 1893-1913 | British Library |
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Person
Birth 1851-01-04
Death 1911-09-30
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