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{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix = [[Sir]]
| name = Edwar Arthur Henry Blunt
| honorific_suffix = [[Order of the Indian Empire|KCIE]] [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]]
| image = EAH Blunt.PNG
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1877|03|14|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Mauritius]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1941|05|29|1877|03|14|df=y}}
| relatives = [[Alfred Blunt|Alfred Walter Frank Blunt]] (brother)
}}
{{One source|date=September 2011}}
'''Edward Arthur Henry Blunt''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCIE|OBE|ICS}}<small>[[Indian Civil Service|ICS]]</small> (14 March 1877–29 May 1941), was a British civil servant in India during the [[British Raj]] and a scholarly writer.

==Early life==
Blunt was born on [[Mauritius]] on 14 March 1877,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101060172911?urlappend=%3Bseq=494|title=Marlborough College Register. From 1843 to 1899 inclusive.|year=1900|edition=4|pages=466|hdl=2027/njp.32101060172911?urlappend=%3Bseq=494}}</ref> as a son of Frances Theophilus Blunt,<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Debrett%27s_Peerage,_Baronetage,_Knightage_and_Companionage.djvu/131|title=Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage|publisher=Dean & Son|year=1893|location=London|pages=53}}</ref> who later became the colonial [[List of colonial governors and administrators of Seychelles|Commissioner of the Seychelles]]. His brother was [[Alfred Blunt|Alfred Walter Frank Blunt]],<ref name=":1" /> an Anglican bishop. Blunt studied at [[Marlborough College]], and then at [[Corpus Christi College, Oxford]] and [[University College London]]. He passed at the top of the list for the [[Indian Civil Service]] competitive examination after his fourth year at Oxford. He was one year at University College London, and proceeded to India to join the Indian Civil Service in 1901.<ref name="cyclopedia">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.100260/|title=The Cyclopedia of India: Biographical-Historical-Administrative-Commercial|publisher=The Cyclopedia Publishing Coy.|year=1907|volume=I|location=Calcutta|pages=146|chapter=Edward Arthur Henry Blunt|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.100260/page/146/mode/2up}}</ref>

== Career ==
Blunt was appointed to the [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh|United Provinces]], with his first service as Assistant Commissioner, [[Lucknow]], and afterwards at [[Raebareli|Rae Bareli]] in the same capacity before officiating as Deputy Commissioner for a brief period. In 1904 he was transferred to [[Varanasi|Benares]] as Joint Magistrate. In 1905 he joined the Secretariat, having been appointed Under-Secretary in the Judicial Department.<ref name="cyclopedia"/> From 1910 to 1912 he served as Superintendent Census Operations for the [[1911 Census of India]] and from 1918 to 1919 as Director of Civil Supplies in [[Kanpur|Cawnpore]]. Then he was Financial Secretary to Government in the United Provinces for eleven years (1920–1931). From 1931 to 1935 he served as a Member of the Executive Council of the [[List of Governors of the United Provinces|Governor]] of the United Provinces,<ref name=":0" /> bevor he stepped down due to ill health.

In the [[1919 Birthday Honours (OBE)|1919 Birthday Honours]] he was made an [[Order of the British Empire|Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE)]],<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Supplement to the London Gazette, 3 June, 1919|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31379/supplement/7052/data.pdf|url-status=live|journal=[[The London Gazette]]|volume=31379 (Supplement)|pages=7052|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224210441/https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31379/supplement/7052/data.pdf|archive-date=24 December 2020}}</ref> in the [[1922 New Year Honours]] a [[Order of the Indian Empire|Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)]]<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Supplemet to the London Gazette, 31 December, 1921|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32563/supplement/10715/data.pdf|url-status=live|journal=[[The London Gazette]]|volume=32563 (Supplememt)|pages=32563|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224205419/https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32563/supplement/10715/data.pdf|archive-date=24 December 2020}}</ref> and in [[1934 Birthday Honours]] a [[Order of the Indian Empire|Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE)]].<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Supplement to the London Gazette, 4 June, 1934|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34056/page/3560/data.pdf|url-status=live|journal=[[The London Gazette]]|volume=34056 (Supplement)|pages=3560|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190926020918/https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34056/page/3560/data.pdf|archive-date=26 September 2019}}</ref>

Blunt died on 29 May 1941.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7No-ZOIz23MC&pg=PA548|title=Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe: Die Wirtschaftsethik der Weltreligionen. Hinduismus und Buddhismus : 1916–1920|publisher=Mohr Siebeck|others=Schmidt-Glintzer, Helwig., Golzio, Karl-Heinz.|year=1996|isbn=3-16-146483-4|editor-last=Schmidt-Glintzer|editor-first=Helwig|volume=I/20|location=Tübingen|pages=548|language=de|doi=10.1628/978-3-16-158138-0|oclc=35690439}}</ref>

==Publications==
*{{Cite journal|last=Blunt|first=E. A. H.|date=1910|title=The Tomb of [[John Mildenhall]]|journal=[[The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland]]|volume=42|issue=2|pages=495–498|doi=10.1017/S0035869X00039757|jstor=25189697}}
*{{cite book|first=E. A. H.|last=Blunt|title=List of Inscriptions on Christian Tombs and Tablets of Historical Interest in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh|url=https://archive.org/stream/listofinscriptio00blunuoft|year=1911|location=Allahabad}}
*{{cite book|url=https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/blunt1931/0007|title=The Caste System of Northern India with Special Reference to the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh|location=London|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1931|first=E. A. H.|last=Blunt}}
*{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.6931/mode/2up|title=The I.C.S.: The Indian Civil Service|location=London|publisher=Faber and Faber|year=1937|first=E. A. H.|last=Blunt}}
*{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.35902/page/n1/mode/2up|title=Social Service in India: An Introduction to Some Social and Economic Problems of the Indian People|location=London|publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office|year=1938|editor-last=Blunt|editor-first=E. A. H.}}
**{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.35902/page/n1/mode/2up|title=Social Service in India: An Introduction to Some Social and Economic Problems of the Indian People|location=London|pages=1–41|publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office|year=1938|first=E. A. H.|last=Blunt|editor-last=Blunt|editor-first=E. A. H.|chapter=Chapter I: The Environment and Distribution of the Indian People|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.35902/page/n25/mode/2up}}
**{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.35902/page/n1/mode/2up|title=Social Service in India: An Introduction to Some Social and Economic Problems of the Indian People|location=London|pages=42–77|publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office|year=1938|first=E. A. H.|last=Blunt|editor-last=Blunt|editor-first=E. A. H.|chapter=Chapter II: The Structure of the Indian People|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.35902/page/n67/mode/2up}}

==References==
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:''This article incorporates text from <u>The Cyclopedia of India: biographical, historical, administrative, commercial, Volume 1</u>. The Cyclopedia Publishing Co., 1907''

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