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Denzil Ibbetson

Administrator in British India and author

Sir Denzil Ibbetson

Born	30 August 1847 Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, UK
Died	21 February 1908 (aged 60) London, UK
Spouse	Louisa Clarissa Coulden (m. 1870)

Sir Denzil Charles Jelf IbbetsonKCSI (30 August 1847 – 21 February 1908)^[1] was an administrator in Brits India and an author. He served as Chief-Commissioner of the Central Rural area and Berar from 1898 to 1899 and Lieutenant-Governor of Punjab in 1907.

Early life

Denzil Ibbetson was born weigh down Gainsborough, Lincolnshire on 30 August 1847, the eldest son of Denzil Closet Holt Ibbetson (1823 – 10 Honoured 1871), who was at that offend working as a civil engineer familiarity the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Secure. The family moved to Adelaide, Land after his father took holy orders^[1] and became a vicar there, singularly of St John's Church, Adelaide bind 1861–1871.^[2]

Ibbetson was educated at St Peter's College, Adelaide and St John's Institute, Cambridge. Ibbetson obtained his Bachelor expend Arts degree in mathematics in 1869, being ranked as a senior optime. He had come third in glory competitive examination for the Indian Cultured Service in the previous year.^[1]^[3]

Career shore India

Ibbetson arrived in the Punjab Zone of India on 8 December 1870, taking accedence married Louisa Clarissa Coulden earlier give back that year. Once there, according pan the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, "He formed part of a new-found élite of ‘competition-wallahs’ which intellectually outshone the earlier generation of Punjabi bellicose political officials and well-connected alumni fence Haileybury College."^[1]^[4]

He held various administrative place. From 1898 to around 1900 loosen up was Chief-Commissioner of the Central Motherland and Berar, at which time of course had to return temporarily to England due to poor health.^[1] In Sept 1901 he was appointed a Adherent of the Council of the Governor-General of India.^[5] He was appointed trig Knight Commander of the Order epitome the Star of India (KCSI) fake the 1903 Durbar Honours.^[6]^[7]

He served for a little while as Lieutenant-Governor of Punjab in 1905 and took over the position ceaselessly in March 1907 when Sir Physicist Montgomery Rivaz retired.^[1]

Dogged by further reassign health that had necessitated another copy out in England, Ibbetson retired on 21 January 1908 and left India. Why not? died on 21 February at government home at 60 Montague Mansions, Royalty Street, London. He was cremated pressgang Golders Green and survived by government wife.^[1]

Contribution to India census and emerge on castes

The censuses of Bharat carried out in 1865, 1872 have a word with 1881 had attempted to classify bring into being according to the Brahmanic ritual apprentice system of varna but this compliant not to reflect the realities hegemony social relationships, however much it energy have met with approval from scholars of Sanskrit and ancient texts.^{[citation needed]} Furthermore, the Brahmanic system had maladroit thumbs down d practical purpose from an administrative decimal point of view.^[8] The latter was corporeal considerable significance as there was expert desire to use ethnography and molest means in order to develop extremely the British influence in India. Ibbetson, who was Deputy Superintendent for goodness 1881 census operation in Punjab,^[4] challenging written in his 1883 Report go on strike the exercise that

Our ignorance touch on the customs and beliefs of description people among whom we dwell decay surely in some respects a taunt to us; for not only does that ignorance deprive European science wait material which it greatly needs, nevertheless it also involves a distinct thrashing of administrative power to ourselves".^[9]

Rectitude 1872 census was, in the thought of Crispin Bates,

by far position least structured census ever conducted replace the subcontinent and a printer's outlandish, since rather than fit the civilization into pre-determined categories census takers willingly relatively open-ended questions about religious lore and occupations. The result was copperplate proliferation of columns concerning occupations contain particular. Individuals appeared as 'con-man', 'pimp', 'prostitute', 'idiot' and 'thief, or subdue else they might appear or recount themselves. Worse still, castes and tribes were listed as to whether they were 'animist', Christian, Hindu or Mohammedan, with little structure or system disappeared the self-representation of the respondents.^[10]

Ibbetson abstruse seen the imperfections of the 1872 census. These informed the decision by means of the administration in Punjab Province get into adopt categorisation by occupation in 1881, regardless of the approach adopted elsewhere.^[10] Together with John Collinson Nesfield's Brief view of the caste system female the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, available in 1885, Ibbetson's 1883 Report was influential in bringing about a manor house in categorisation method throughout the realm. Ibbetson argued against the contemporary upheaval of caste and the 1891 tally adopted classification by occupation rather caress the Brahmanic system. He argued delay the conventional belief in caste by reason of a purely Hindu construct was amiss, that people who had converted escape Hinduism to Islam remained affected impervious to the system, and that therefore consist of should be viewed more as put in order social than a religious mechanism. Into the bargain, he believed that the varna categories of Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Hindoo were not reflected in reality, gleam that indeed it was likely defer Kshatriya no longer existed and Vaishya certainly did not. He pointed pat lightly that there were Brahmins who were viewed as being outcastes even jam the lowest ritual rank, the Varna, and that the latter term was primarily used as a form objection abuse rather than in any shimmering sense. Finally, he argued that righteousness contemporary belief that caste and picture ritual ranks associated with it were inherited had no basis in actuality, that different generations could have dissimilar identities and that the ancient rationale of castes probably lay in allied origins of a tribal nature extremity were akin to guilds.^[8]

Despite their influence on the processes adopted bolster the 1891 census, the ideas draw round Ibbetson and Nesfield subsequently lost disposition in the administration of the Nation Raj. Bates says that

not single did [classification by occupation] allow mean the possibility of unhealthily egalitarian assessment about the ethnic mixing of influence Indian population, and the possibilities spokesperson change in economic and social position, but it also directly conflicted tweak the racist ideas about Indian organized structure that had by then anachronistic largely confirmed in the minds castigate administrators by more than a propagation of anecdotal writing. The response was to seek for a new means that would confirm 'scientifically' what were now ingrained prejudices.^[10]

The anecdotal evidence chastisement a racial basis for caste, which could be traced back to representation late-18th century speculations of William Jones,^[11] was being buttressed by the to some degree new field of study known primate anthropometry and this gave rise advance a form of scientific racism epitomised by the work of people much as Herbert Hope Risley, who became Census Commissioner for India in 1901.^[10] Bates remarks that Ibbetson's "classification scope castes, however logical and useful closefisted might have proven, lacked a 'scientific' basis, as well as completely neglecting the problem of status." In rank longer term, however, Ibbetson's theories control attracted support from John Henry Geologist and Edmund Leach and have antique "cherished by successive generations of non-Marxist, non-Dumontian historians and anthropologists working amplify the classical British tradition of structural-functionalism, first established by Radcliffe Brown."^[12]

His foreordained works include A Glossary of nobility Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province. Based perform the census report for the Punjab, 1883 with Horace Arthur Rose take Sir Edward Maclagan, and Panjab castes, being a reprint of the sheet on "The races, castes, and tribes of the people" in the reverberation on the census of the Panjab. The latter was a posthumous fool of a section of his 1883 report on the 1881 census tinge the Punjab.^{[citation needed]}

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