Sir Edward Douglas Maclagan KCSI

Order of the Star of India

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 KCIE

Order of the Indian Empire

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 (1864–1952) was an administrator in British India. He became Governor

Governor

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 of the Punjab

Punjab (British India)

Punjab was a province of British India, it was one of the last areas of the Indian subcontinent to fall under British rule. With the end of British rule in 1947 the province was split between West Punjab, which went to Pakistan, and East Punjab, which went to India...

 (1921–1924). He was Lieutenant-Governor from 1919.

He wrote widely on Indian history. His work superintending the Punjab census

Census

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 of 1891 contains ethnographic information that is still cited. With Horace Arthur Rose

Horace Arthur Rose

Horace Arthur Rose 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...

, Superintendent of Ethnography in the Punjab in the early twentieth century, he compiled a large work, A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier, including material from Denzil Ibbetson

Denzil Ibbetson

Sir Denzil Charles Jelf Ibbetson KCSI was an administrator in British India and an author. He served as governor of the Central Provinces and Berar from 1900 to 1902....

's 1881 census.

He was Chancellor of Punjab University

University of the Punjab

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, from 1919 to 1924. He served as Secretary to the Government of India in the Education Department, Revenue Secretary, and Chief Secretary to the Government of the Punjab. He was Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE) and Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI).

Works

• Monograph on the Gold and Silver Works of the Punjab (1890)
• The Punjab and its feudatories;The report on the census (Census of India, 1891) (1892)
• Gazeteer of the Multan District (1902) editor
• A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier (1991) with Denzil Ibbetson and H. A. Rose
• The Jesuits and the Great Mogul (1932)