GB 0402 HHR - RISLEY, Sir Herbert Hope (1851-1911)

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GB 0402 HHR 1908 Collection level 1 box Risley , Sir , Herbert Hope , 1851-1911 , Knight , Indian Civil Servant

Born, 1851; educated New College, Oxford; Indian Civil Service, 1873; Assistant Collector, Midnapore; assistant to Sir William Wilson Hunter, Director-General of Statistics, 1875; Assistant Secretary, 1879; Under-Secretary to the Government of India in the Home Department, Imperial Secretariat, 1879; Govindpur, 1880, Hazaribagh, and Manbhum, 1884; compiled information on the castes and occupations of the people of Bengal, 1885; Acting Financial Secretary to the Government of India, 1898; Census Commissioner, 1899; Director of Ethnography for India, 1901; Home Secretary in Lord Curzon's administration, 1902; Permanent Secretary in the Judicial and Public Department at the India Office, 1910; died, 1911.

Publications: The Tribes and Castes of Bengal (1891-2)

Gazetteer of Sikhim: Introductory Chapter (1894)
The People of India (1908; 2nd edn 1915).

Collection of notes on the history of Tibet and Sikkim, possibly for a book as notes are numbered in sections with index, and letter from Sarat Chandra Das to Capt Cecil Godfrey Rawling answering a query about the origins of Tibetans, 1908.

As outlined in the Scope and Content.

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Card index available in the Foyle Reading Room.
Prepared by Archives volunteer using existing finding aids. Revised by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Oxford DNB. ISAD(G) ed. 2, name authority NRA. Jul 2008 Risley , Sir , Herbert Hope , 1851-1911 , Knight , Indian Civil Servant Rawling , Cecil Godfrey , 1870-1917 , army officer and explorer Das , Sarat Chandra , 1849-1917 , Indian scholar National history Asian history History Sikkim South Asia Tibet China East Asia

Collection of notes on the history of Tibet and Sikkim, possibly for a book as notes are numbered in sections with index, and letter from Sarat Chandra Das to Capt Cecil Godfrey Rawling answering a query about the origins of Tibetans, 1908.

As outlined in the Scope and Content.

Accessible via The Foyle Reading Room. Free of charge for Fellows, Members and those with valid academic identification. All other users pay a charge and must bring identification in order to register on arrival.

Photocopying at the discretion of the Archivist, and subject to completion of 'application for copies' form. No reproduction or publication without the permission of the RGS-IBG Archivist.

• English

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English

Card index available in the Foyle Reading Room.

ISAD(G) ed. 2, name authority NRA.

• English