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(1867-11-25)25 November 1867
Died18 September 1933(1933-09-18) (aged 65)
NationalityBritish
OccupationIndian Civil Service administrator
Known forEthnography

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 edit

  • 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.
  • Brown, John Porter (1927). Rose, Horace Arthur (ed.). The Darvishes: or, Oriental Spiritualism (2nd ed.). Cass.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e "Rose, Horace Arthur (RS886HA)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ "Honours". The Pauline. IV (19). London: St Paul's School: 433. March 1886.
  3. ^ The India List and Office List. India Office. 1905. p. 604.
  4. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. III (13th ed.). London: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. 1926. p. xiv.
  5. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (14th ed.). London: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. 1929. p. xi.