Herbert Hope Risley
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Sir Herbert Hope Risley was a British ethnographer and colonial administrator, a member of the Indian Civil Service who conducted extensive studies on the tribes and castes of the Bengal Presidency. H
c. 1907
Census in British India
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Census in British India refers to the census of India prior to independence which was conducted periodically from 1865 to 1941. The censuses were primarily concerned with administration and faced nume
Herbert Hope Risley
…despite suffering what the ODNB describes as a "distressing illness". His widow was remarried to Lieutenant-General Sir Fenton Aylmer; she died in 1934. Census of India prior to independence Notes…
Local table for "Caste, tribe, race or nationality", from the 1901 census
Cover of Volume 17 of the 1911 census report (fully digitized file)