Risley, Herbert Hope, Sir, 1851-1911
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1873 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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- Bengal, India (as recorded)
- Rajputana, India (as recorded)
- India, Asia (as recorded)
