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    _ Sir Herbert Hope Risley KCIE CSI FRAI (4 January 1851 – 30 September 1911) was a British ethnographer and colonial administrator, a member of the Indian...
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  • miscegenation occurred. As an exponent of "race science", colonial administrator Herbert Hope Risley (1851–1911) used the ratio of the width of a nose to its height...
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    Jātis into the four Varna categories as described in ancient texts. Herbert Hope Risley, the Census Commissioner, noted that "The principle suggested...
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    Lord Brahma, who cursed him and his descendants to be rat-catchers. Herbert Hope Risley, in his 1881 survey of castes and tribes of Bengal, speculated...
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  • ISBN 978-0-521-26883-7. Retrieved 18 May 2011. India. Census Commissioner; Sir Herbert Hope Risley (1903). Census of India, 1901: Volume I. India [Part 2] Ethnographic...
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  • The Tribes and Castes of Bengal is a book written by Herbert Hope Risley in 1891. There were four volumes, some of which have been digitized by Google...
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  • Admiral Herbert Willes Webley Hope CB CVO DSO DL (26 May 1878 – 26 April 1968) was a Royal Navy officer. During the First World War, he served in Room...
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  • was classified by the British Raj administration under the theories of Herbert Hope Risley, which categorized Indian communities based on social hierarchies...
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  • Jugantar, the propvisions of the 1878 Vernacular Press Act were revived. Herbert Hope Risley, in 1907, declared, "We are overwhelmed with a mass of heterogeneous...
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  • collectively referred to as Desa Panos. Colonial ethnographers, such as Herbert Hope Risley, theorized they were Dravidians who have been "Hinduized." The...
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    Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933. A wealthy mining engineer...
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  • published based on racial classifications in South Asia conceived by Herbert Hope Risley classified inhabitants of Bengal and parts of Odisha as Mongolo-Dravidians...
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    Maharashtra. In Goa, they call themselves Twashta Kasar Brahmin. According to Herbert Hope Risley, they are a branch of the Suvarna Banik, who became degraded because...
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  • categorisations it was caste that was regarded to be, in the words of Herbert Hope Risley, "the cement that holds together the myriad units of Indian society"...
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    Society: 182–184. JSTOR 2341501.(subscription required) Risley, Sir Herbert Hope (1915) [1908]. Crooke, William (ed.). The People of India (Memorial ed...
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  • Dune is a 1965 epic science fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials (1963–64 novel Dune World and...
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  • according to book The Tribes and Castes of Bengal (1891) written by Herbert Hope Risley. Subsequently, in 1913, they were classified as a Primitive tribe...
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    William Stevenson; Burn, Richard; Cotton, James Sutherland; Risley, Herbert Hope (1909). "Vernacular Literature". The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Vol...
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  • (4.8%) Rautahat (4.5%) Sarlahi (1.3%) Mahottari (1.1%) Banke (0.7%) Herbert Hope Risley. The tribes and castes of Bengal. Harvard University. Printed...
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    later taken up by amateur Indologists such as the colonial administrator Herbert Hope Risley. Jones also propounded theories that might appear peculiar today...
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    Oxford University Press. p. 89. India. Census Commissioner; Risley, Sir Herbert Hope (1903). Census of India, 1901: Volume I. India. Ethnographic appendices...
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    for many years, notably by influential officials of the Raj such as Herbert Hope Risley and Denzil Ibbetson, and were sometimes categorised as animists...
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    years 1885–87. After the death of Sir William Wilson Hunter in 1900, Sir Herbert Hope Risley, William Stevenson Meyer, Sir Richard Burn and James Sutherland...
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  • John Herbert, nicknamed "Herbert the Pervert", is a fictional character in the animated television series Family Guy, created and voiced by Mike Henry...
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  • during the sepoy mutiny of 1857. Dalton, along with justice Campbell, Herbert Hope Risley, John-Baptist Hoffmann and P.O.Bidding initiated ethnographic...
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    of Paul Broca and whose views influenced the methodology adopted by Herbert Hope Risley in his ethnographic surveys of the people of India. He became...
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  • Berghahn Books, 2000 Census of India, 1901, Census Commissioner, By Sir Herbert Hope Risley, India, 1903 YANGWAGO clans are settled in Fenchaytar, Darjeeling...
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    38°53′27″N 77°01′33″W / 38.89094°N 77.02573°W / 38.89094; -77.02573 The Hope Diamond is a 45.52 carats (9.104 g; 0.3211 oz) diamond that has been famed...
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    Stevenson, Sir; Burn, Richard, Sir; Cotton, James Sutherland; Risley, Sir Herbert Hope. Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 11. p. 278.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint:...
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    District". "HERITAGE: THE RUINED FORTS OF KHUZDAR". 6 October 2019. Risley, Herbert Hope (1903) Census of India, 1901. Volume I. India. Ethnographic appendices...
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