{{short description|Administrator in the Indian Civil Service and author (1867-1933)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Horace Arthur Rose | image = <!-- just the filename, without the File: or Image: prefix or enclosing brackets --> | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date and age|df=yes|YYYY|MM|DD}} or {{Birth-date and age|Month DD, YYYY}} --> {{Birth date|df=yes|1867|11|25}} | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|df=yes|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} or {{Death-date and age|df=yes|Month DD, YYYY|Month DD, YYYY}} (death date then birth date) --> {{death date and age|1933|09|18|1867|11|25|df=yes}} | death_place = Saint Brélade, Jersey | other_names = | known_for = Ethnography | occupation = Indian Civil Service administrator }}
'''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.
Rose was the son of a merchant from East Grinstead and was born on 25 November 1867.<ref name=Venn>{{acad|id= RS886HA |name=Rose, Horace Arthur}}</ref> He was educated at St Paul's School and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he arrived from his home in Wallingford, Surrey<!--NB: this is per Venn, but I know only of Wallingford, Oxfordshire--> with the award of a scholarship.<ref name=Venn/><ref>{{cite journal |title=Honours |journal=The Pauline |volume=IV |issue=19 |date=March 1886 |publisher=St Paul's School |location=London |page=433 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IvAHAAAAQAAJ}}</ref>
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.<ref name=IndiaList1905>{{cite book |title=The India List and Office List |publisher=India Office |year=1905 |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_3VQTAAAAYAAJ |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_3VQTAAAAYAAJ/page/n608 604]}}</ref> He was Superintendent for the Punjab census in 1901 and from then until 1906 was also Superintendent of Ethnography for that province.<ref>{{cite book |title=Encyclopædia Britannica |edition=13th |year=1926 |volume=III |page=xiv |location=London |publisher=The Encyclopædia Britannica Company |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopabritnew03chisrich}}</ref> 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.<ref name=Venn/><ref>{{cite book |title=Encyclopædia Britannica |edition=14th |year=1929 |volume=12 |page=xi |location=London |publisher=The Encyclopædia Britannica Company |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri030511mbp}}</ref> He was appointed the rank of Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel in the Indian Army during World War I.<ref name=Venn/>
Rose retired from the Indian Civil Service in 1918 and died at Saint Brélade, Jersey on 18 September 1933.<ref name=Venn/>
==Publications== {{wikisource|works=or}}
*{{cite book |title=Notes on Female Tattoo Designs in India |first1=Horace Arthur |last1=Rose |first2=B. A. |last2=Gupte |year=1902}} *{{cite book |title=Customs in the Trans-Border Territories of the North-West Frontier Province |first=Horace Arthur |last=Rose |publisher=Asiatic Society |year=1905}} *{{cite book |title=A Compendium of the Punjab Customary Law |first1=Horace Arthur |last1=Rose |first2=M. Muhammed |last2=Shafi |location=Lahore |publisher=Samuel T. Weston at the Civil and Military Gazette Press |year=1911 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8yQOAAAAYAAJ}} *{{cite book |title=A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province |first1=Horace Arthur |last1=Rose |first2=Edward Douglas|last2=MacLagan |author2-link=Edward Douglas MacLagan |location=Lahore |publisher=Samuel T. Weston at the Civil and Military Gazette Press|title-link=A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province }} **Volume 1 (1911) **[https://archive.org/details/glossaryoftribes03rose Volume 2 (1911)] **[https://books.google.com/books?id=Th3Mu-_RwjQC&dq=A+Glossary+of+the+Tribes+and+Castes+of+the+Punjab+and+North-West+Frontier+Province+volume+3&pg=PP5 Volume 3 (1919)] *{{cite book |title=The Darvishes: or, Oriental Spiritualism |editor-first=Horace Arthur |editor-last=Rose |first=John Porter |last=Brown |publisher=Cass |year=1927 |edition=2nd |url=https://archive.org/details/MN40240ucmf_6}}
==See also== *William Crooke *Edward Albert Gait *William Wilson Hunter *H. H. Risley *Robert Vane Russell *Edgar Thurston
==References== {{reflist}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rose, Horace Arthur}} Category:Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Category:People educated at St Paul's School, London Category:Indian Civil Service (British India) officers Category:British ethnographers Category:British anthropologists Category:1933 deaths Category:1867 births Category:People from St Brelade