A glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province By H.A. Rose Vol II/About the Author

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A note About the Author

The Present Book

A glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province was written by Horace Arthur Rose.

Life of H.A.Rose

Horace Arthur Rose (1867–1933) was an administrator in the Indian Civil Service and also an author of works related to India in the time of the British Raj.

  • 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.[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.
  • He was Superintendent for the Punjab census in 1901 and from then until 1906 was also Superintendent of Ethnography for that province.
  • 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.
  • He was appointed the rank of Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel in the Indian Army during World War I.
  • Rose retired from the ICS in 1918 and died at Saint Brélade, Jersey on 18 September 1933.

His 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. Retrieved 2011-11-12.
  • 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)

References

  1. ↑ Venn, J.; Venn, J. A., eds. (1922–1958). "Rose, Horace Arthur". Alumni Cantabrigienses (10 vols) (online ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  2. ↑ The Pauline (London: St Paul's School) IV (19): 433. March 1886.

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