Anthropologist and Imperialist
Sir Herbert Hope Risley (1851 - 1911) - ''H. H. Risley'', as he always signed himself - was a member of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) from 1873 to 1910 who served in Bengal and became a senior administrator and policymaker in the colonial government, as well as the pre-eminent anthropologist in British India. He was also an imperialist, who was convinced of the rightness of ''civilising'' British...
Sir Herbert Hope Risley (1851 - 1911) - ''H. H. Risley'', as he always signed himself - was a member of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) from 1873 to 1910 who served in Bengal and became a senior administrator and policymaker in the colonial government, as well as the pre-eminent anthropologist in British India. He was also an imperialist, who was convinced of the rightness of ''civilising'' British...
