Horace Arthur Rose
Administrator in the Indian Civil Service and author (1867-1933)
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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.
Horace Arthur Rose | |
|---|---|
| Born | 25 November 1867 |
| Died | 18 September 1933 (aged 65) |
| Occupation | Indian Civil Service administrator |
| Known for | Ethnography |
Rose was the son of a merchant from East Grinstead and was born on 25 November 1867.[1] He was educated at St Paul's School and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he arrived from his home in Wallingford, Surrey with the award of a scholarship.[1][2]
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.[3] He was Superintendent for the Punjab census in 1901 and from then until 1906 was also Superintendent of Ethnography for that province.[4] 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.[1][5] He was appointed the rank of Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel in the Indian Army during World War I.[1]
Rose retired from the Indian Civil Service in 1918 and died at Saint Brélade, Jersey on 18 September 1933.[1]
Publications
- Rose, Horace Arthur; Gupte, B. A. (1902). Notes on Female Tattoo Designs in India.
- Rose, Horace Arthur (1905). Customs in the Trans-Border Territories of the North-West Frontier Province. Asiatic Society.
- Rose, Horace Arthur; Shafi, M. Muhammed (1911). A Compendium of the Punjab Customary Law. Lahore: Samuel T. Weston at the Civil and Military Gazette Press.
- Rose, Horace Arthur; MacLagan, Edward Douglas. A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province. Lahore: Samuel T. Weston at the Civil and Military Gazette Press.
- Volume 1 (1911)
- Volume 2 (1911)
- Volume 3 (1919)
- Brown, John Porter (1927). Rose, Horace Arthur (ed.). The Darvishes: or, Oriental Spiritualism (2nd ed.). Cass.