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{{infobox award
| name = Kaisar-i-Hind Medal for Public Service in India
| image = [[File:Kaiser-I-Hind driemaal.jpg|350px]]
| caption = Representations of the Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals (George V – second type)
| presenter = [[Emperor of India]]
| country = [[British Raj]]
| type = Civil decoration
| eligibility = Civilians of any nationality
| awarded_for = Persons considered to have done some public service worthy of recognition by Government<ref>{{cite book|first=|last=|quote=The medal is awarded by the Viceroy of India to such persons as are considered to have done some public service worthy of recognition by Government. Only two medals were awarded in the past year for the whole Presidency of Madras, ...|page=74|title=Report of the Year ... of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts}}</ref>
| campaign = Dormant since 1947
| established = 10 April 1900
| higher = [[Order of British India]]
| same =
| lower = [[Venerable Order of Saint John|Order of St John]]
| related =
| image2 = [[File:Kaisar-i-Hind Medal.gif]]
| caption2 = Ribbon of ''Kaisar-i-Hind'' Medal
}}

The '''Kaisar-i-Hind Medal for Public Service in India''' was a medal awarded by the [[Emperor of India|Emperor/Empress of India]] between 1900 and 1947, to "any person without distinction of race, occupation, position, or sex ... who shall have distinguished himself (or herself) by important and useful service in the advancement of the public interest in India."<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27191|page=2996|date=11 May 1900}}</ref>

The name "Kaisar-i-Hind" ({{langx|ur|{{Nastaliq|قیصرِ ہند}}}} ''qaisar-e-hind)'' literally means "[[Emperor of India]]" in the [[Urdu|Urdu language]]. The word ''kaisar'', meaning "emperor" is a derivative of the Roman imperial title [[Caesar (title)|Caesar]], via Persian (see [[Caesar (title)#Ottoman Empire|Qaysar-i Rum]]) from Greek Καίσαρ ''Kaísar'', and is [[cognate]] with the German title [[Kaiser]], which was borrowed from Latin at an earlier date.<ref>See [[Michael Witzel|Witzel, Michael]], "Autochthonous Aryans? The Evidence from Old Indian and Iranian Texts", p. 29, 12.1 [http://www.ejvs.laurasianacademy.com/ejvs0703/ejvs0703article.pdf PDF] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130523094912/http://www.ejvs.laurasianacademy.com/ejvs0703/ejvs0703article.pdf |date=2013-05-23 }}</ref> Based upon this, the title ''[[Kaisar-i-Hind]]'' was coined in 1876 by the orientalist [[Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner|G.W. Leitner]] as the official imperial title for the British monarch in India.<ref name="B.S. Cohn 1983 p. 201-2">B.S. Cohn, "Representing Authority in Victorian India", in E. Hobsbawm and T. Ranger (eds.), ''The Invention of Tradition'' (1983), 165-209, esp. 201-2.</ref> The last ruler to bear it was [[George VI]].

''Kaisar-i-Hind'' was also inscribed on the [[Obverse and reverse|obverse]] side of the [[India General Service Medal (1909)]], as well as on the Indian Meritorious Service Medal.<ref>[[:File:India General Service Medal 1909 G5-v1.jpg]]</ref>

==History==
[[Empress of India]] or ''Kaisar-i-Hind'', a term coined by the orientalist [[Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner|G.W. Leitner]] in a deliberate attempt to dissociate British imperial rule from that of preceding dynasties<ref name="B.S. Cohn 1983 p. 201-2"/> was taken by [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]] from 1 May 1876, and proclaimed at the [[Delhi Durbar]] of 1877.

The medal was instituted by [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]] on 10 April 1900.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27191|page=2997|date=11 May 1900}}</ref> The name translates as "Emperor of India" (a name also used for a rare Indian butterfly, ''[[Teinopalpus imperialis]]''). The Royal Warrant for the Kaisar-i-Hind was amended in 1901, 1912, 1933 and 1939. While never officially rescinded, the Kaisar-i-Hind ceased to be awarded following the passage of the [[Indian Independence Act 1947]].<ref name="IAH">{{cite web|title=Imperial medals|publisher=Australian Government, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet|date=27 June 2016|url=https://www.pmc.gov.au/resource-centre/government/imperial-medals|access-date=5 December 2017}}</ref> The awards of the gold medal were often published in the ''[[London Gazette]]'', while other classes were published in the ''[[Gazette of India]]''.

==Medal grades and design==
The medal had three grades. The Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal for Public Service in India was awarded directly by the monarch on the recommendation of the Secretary of State for India. Silver and Bronze medals were awarded by the [[Viceroy of India|Viceroy]]. The medal consisted of an oval-shaped badge or decoration in gold, silver or bronze with the [[Royal Cipher]] and Monarchy on one side, and the words "Kaisar-i-Hind for Public Service in India" on the other. It was to be worn suspended from the left breast by a dark blue ribbon. The medal has no [[post-nominal]] initials.<ref name="IAH"/>

One of its most famous recipient is [[Mahatma Gandhi]], who was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind in 1915 by [[Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst|The Lord Hardinge of Penshurst]] for his contribution to [[Indian Ambulance Corps|ambulance services]] in [[South Africa]]. Gandhi returned the medal following the [[Jallianwala Bagh massacre]] carried out by the British officials and wrote, "In European countries, condonation of such grievous wrongs as the khilafat and the Punjab would have resulted in bloody revolution by the people."<ref name="Society for Contemporary Studies 1975 p. ">{{cite book | author=Society for Contemporary Studies | title=The Contemporary | publisher=R.N. Guha Thakurta | issue=v. 19 | year=1975 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XmrVAAAAMAAJ| page=10}}</ref><ref name="Allied Publishers 1988 p. ">{{cite book | title=Indian History | publisher=Allied Publishers | year=1988 | isbn=978-81-8424-568-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MazdaWXQFuQC| page=355}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://britishmilitarymedals.co.uk/kaiser-i-hind-medal|title=Kaiser-i-Hind medal|website=britishmilitarymedals.co.uk|access-date=12 May 2010|archive-date=11 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190111232736/http://britishmilitarymedals.co.uk/kaiser-i-hind-medal|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HUo4AAAAIAAJ&q=kaiser-i-hind+gandhi+returned&pg=PA46|title=Gandhi's Rise to Power: Indian Politics 1915-1922|first=Judith M.|last=Brown|date=26 September 1974|publisher=CUP Archive|via=Google Books|isbn=9780521098731}}</ref>

==Notable recipients==
'''''Award of the Medal and Bar to the Medal'''''
* Lillian Agnes Starr, Gold Medal with Bar; awarded in 1923 as Matron-in-charge of the C.M.S. Mission Hospital, Peshawar
* Olive Monahan, Gold Medal with Bar; retired Chief Medical Officer Kalyani Hospital, Madras<ref name=":0" />
* [[Cornelia Sorabji]], Gold Medal with Bar; first female advocate in India; first woman to practice law in India and Britain
* [[Lucia Navamani Virasinghe-Chinnappa]], awarded Medal 1937 & Bar to the Medal 1941; pioneered maternity and child health on the Indian subcontinent.

'''''Award of the medal'''''

'''Gold medal'''

* Sardar Khan Bahadur [[Mir Abdul Ali]], JP, Bombay, 9 November 1901<ref name="LG27374">{{London Gazette|issue=27374|date=9 November 1901|page=7288|supp=1}}</ref>
* Dr [[Margaret Ida Balfour]], Scottish doctor and campaigner for women's medical health issues<ref>{{londongazette|issue=31712|supp=y|page=7|date=30 December 1919}}</ref>
* Dr [[Mary Ronald Bisset]], Scottish physician and missionary for women's medical health.<ref name="Honours">{{Cite news |date=2 January 1931 |title=Missionaries in the Honours List |pages=12 |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51912707/missionaries-in-the-honours-list/ |access-date=May 23, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1 January 1931 |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33675/supplement/13/data.pdf |title=Supplement to the London Gazette |newspaper=London Gazette |access-date=23 May 2020}}</ref>
* Florence Mary Macnaghten, British - Scottish CMS nurse / in charge of the Canadian Zanana Mission Hospital at Kangra, Punjab, India, for 1905 earthquake relief work and for women's medical health.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}
* [[Richard Burn (Indologist)|Richard Burn]], for famine services in 1907–08<ref name="who">"BURN, Sir Richard", in ''[[Who Was Who]]'', [[A & C Black]], online edition, [[Oxford University Press]], 2014; retrieved 27 May 2014.</ref>
* [[Shankar Madhav Chitnavis]], Esq., Deputy-Commissioner, Central Provinces, 9 November 1901<ref name="LG27374" />
* [[Thomas Cooke (general)|Major General Thomas Arthur Cooke]], for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj<ref name="1905indialist">{{cite book|title=The India List and India Office List for 1905|year=1905|publisher=Harrison and Sons|location=London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&q=Kaisar-i-Hind+Medal&pg=PA172|access-date=18 November 2012|page=172}}</ref>
* [[Jim Corbett]], 2 January 1928<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33343 |supp=y |page=7 |date= 30 December 1927}}</ref>
* [[Mary Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston|The Lady Curzon of Kedleston]], for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj<ref name="1905indialist" />
* Major Herbert Edward Deane, R.A.M.C., 9 November 1901<ref name="LG27374" />
* Major Thomas Edward Dyson, MB, CM, Indian Medical Service, 9 November 1901<ref name="LG27374" />
* Mrs E J Firth, of Madras, awarded medal on 9 November 1901 for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj<ref name="LG27374" />
* Lieutenant Colonel Robert Shore, Irish Surgeon, M.A., M.D., R.U.I., L.F.P.S.G., Indian Medical Service, 1 January 1906<ref>Evening Mail, London England, Jan 1 January 1906, Page 6</ref><ref>Indian Medical Gazette, April 1912, Page 168</ref>
* [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi]] (returned 1920)
* [[V. Krishnaswamy Iyer]] (justice of the madras high court) He was awarded the Medal for his public service contributions
* Major General Sir [[William Forbes Gatacre]], chairman of the plague committee of Bombay City 1896 and 1897<ref name="LG-27195">{{London Gazette|issue=27195|supp=y|page=3329|date=23 May 1900}}</ref>
* N S Glazebrook, Esq., JP, of Bombay, 9 November 1901<ref name="LG27374" />
* [[John Anderson Graham|Very Rev John A. Graham, D.D.]], for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj<ref name="1905indialist" />
* [[Thomas Holderness]], for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj<ref name="1905indialist" />
* Sydney Hutton Cooper Hutchinson, Esq., [[AMICE]], Superintendent of Telegraphs, 9 November 1901<ref name="LG27374" />
* The Most Hon [[Alice Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32941|date=30 May 1924|page=4419}}</ref>
* Reverend [[William Henry Jackson (priest)|William Henry Jackson]] of the Blind School, Kemmendine, Rangoon, awarded the gold medal for public services in India, 1930.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33566 |supp=y |page=11 |date= 31 December 1929}}</ref>
* Colonel Sir [[Samuel Swinton Jacob]], KCIE, Indian Staff Corps, 9 November 1901<ref name="LG27374" />
* [[Hakim Ajmal Khan]], physician and one of the founders of the Jamia Millia Islamia University<ref name="1915IndianBio">{{cite book|title=The Indian Biographical Dictionary |editor=C. Hayavando Rao|publisher=Pillar & Co. |location=Madras |year=1915| pages=11, 470–71}}</ref>
* [[Isabel Kerr]], Scottish medical missionary in India in the early 20th-century, created the Victoria Leprosy Centre in Hyderabad, and worked to cure leprosy across India.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The biographical dictionary of Scottish women : from the earliest times to 2004|date=2007|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|others=Ewan, Elizabeth., Innes, Sue., Reynolds, Sian., Pipes, Rose.|isbn=978-0-7486-3293-0|location=Edinburgh|pages=194|oclc=185096266}}</ref>
* [[Taw Sein Ko]], for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj<ref name="1905indialist" />
* Harrington Verney Lovett, Esq., Indian Civil Service, 9 November 1901<ref name="LG27374" />
* [[Elizabeth Adelaide Manning]], awarded the medal in 1904 for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj<ref name="Office1819">{{cite book|author=Great Britain. India Office|title=The India List and India Office List for ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ|year=1819|publisher=Harrison and Sons|page=172}}</ref>
* Sir [[Francis William Maclean]], for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj<ref name="1905indialist" /><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27195|date=22 May 1900 |page=3329|supp=y}}</ref>
* Herbert Frederick Mayes, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, Indian Civil Service, 9 Nov 1901<ref name="LG27374" />
* Lieutenant-Colonel James McCloghry, FRCS, Indian Medical Service, 9 November 1901<ref name="LG27374" />
* Miss [[Eleanor McDougall]], awarded Medal of the First Class in June 1923 for her work as Principal of the Women's Christian College, Madras<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32830/supplement/3952/data.pdf|title=3952 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE|date=2 June 1923|website=Thegazette.co.uk|access-date=11 January 2019}}</ref>
* A Donald Miller, MBE, (1939) for work with the Leprosy Mission 1921-1942<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/afec/d7adda88563ab8907a2cf916e8b3c98ca265.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190303160800/http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/afec/d7adda88563ab8907a2cf916e8b3c98ca265.pdf|archive-date=3 March 2019|title=Photographic gallery of senior distinguished contributors|journal=International Journal of Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases |year=1973|last1=Peterson|first1=L.|last2=Skinsnes|first2=O. K.|volume=41|issue=2|pages=179–186|pmid=4592241|s2cid=22334921}}</ref>
* Rev Charles Henry Monahan, awarded Medal of the First Class in February 1937 for his work as General Superintendent, Methodist Missionary Society, Madras<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34365/supplement/701/data.pdf|title=SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON- GAZETTE|date=February 1937|website=Thegazette.co.uk|access-date=11 January 2019}}</ref>
* Olive Monahan, Gold Medal with Bar, retired Chief Medical Officer Kalyani Hospital, Madras<ref name=":0">{{londongazette|issue=31931|supp=y|page=6319|date=5 June 1920}}</ref><ref>{{londongazette|issue=35029|supp=y|page=22|date=1 January 1941}}</ref>
* [[Sarojini Naidu]], Received gold medal for organising flood relief work in Hyderabad, later returned in protest over [[Jallianwala Bagh massacre]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://upgovernor.gov.in/en/post/smt-sarojini-naidu|title=Official Website of Governor's Secretariat, Raj Bhavan Lucknow Uttar Pradesh, India. / SMT. Sarojini Naidu}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/naidu-sarojini-1879-1949| title = Naidu, Sarojini (1879–1949) {{!}} Encyclopedia.com}}</ref>
* [[Amina Hydari]] - social worker, reformer, activist. Received medal for organising flood relief work in Hyderabad during the Musi floods.<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Roberts|editor1-first=C.|title=What India Thinks: Being a Symposium of Thought Contributed by 50 Eminent Men and Women Having India's Interest at Heart|date=1939|publisher=Asian Educational Services|isbn=9788120618800|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mLct2qLz-_cC|accessdate=1 March 2021}}</ref>
* [[Vidyagauri Nilkanth]], social reformer, educationist, and writer<ref>{{londongazette|issue=35029|supp=y|page=22|date=31 December 1940}}</ref>
* William Florey Noyce, Esq., Extra-Assistant Commissioner and Assistant Secretary to the Financial Commissioner, Burma, 9 November 1901<ref name="LG27374" />
* Dr John David O′Donnell, MBE, VD, FRCSEd, Chief Medical and Sanitary Officer, Kolar Gold Fields, Mysore, July 1926<ref>{{cite journal|pmc=2522954|pmid=20772670|volume=2|title=War Memorial Hospital at Andover|year=1926|journal=Br Med J|issue=3418|pages=74–75|doi=10.1136/bmj.2.3418.74}}</ref>
* [[Babu (title)#Civil servants|Babu]] [[Sri Ram|Sri Ram, Rai Bahadur]], for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj<ref name="1905indialist" />
* [[V. P. Madhava Rao]], CIE<ref name="1905indialist" />
* [[Mary Reed (missionary)]], 1917, for missionary services to lepers<ref name="BU">{{cite web |title=Reed, Mary (1854-1943) |publisher= History of Missiology, Boston University |url=https://www.bu.edu/missiology/2020/02/21/reed-mary-1854-1943/ |website=www.bu.edu |access-date=29 May 2022}}</ref><ref name="Leprosyhistory">{{cite web |title=Mary Reed |url=https://leprosyhistory.org/database/person76 |website=leprosyhistory.org |publisher=International Leprosy Association - History of Leprosy |access-date=30 May 2022}}</ref>
* Thomas d'Esterre Roberts, S.J., Archbishop of Bombay, for services to the forces during World War II<ref>Hurn, David Abner, ''Archbishop Roberts S.J.'', Darton, Longman & Todd, 1st edition, 1966, page 43</ref>
* HH [[Madho Rao Scindia|Madho Rao Scindia, Maharaja Scindia of Gwalior]]<ref name="1905indialist" />
* Lieutenant-Colonel Sir [[David Semple]], for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj<ref name="1905indialist" />
* Rai Bahadur Kameleshwari Pershad Singh of Monghyr, Bengal<ref name="LG27374" />
* HH [[Ganga Singh|Ganga Singh, Maharaja of Bikaner]]<ref name="1905indialist" />
* [[Rameshwar Singh|Maharaja Rameshwar Singh Bahadur of Darbhanga]]<ref name="1905indialist" />
* [[Donald Mackenzie Smeaton]] CSI, Scottish Liberal MP and Indian civil servant<ref name="1905indialist" />
* [[Cornelia Sorabji]], Gold Medal with Bar, first female advocate in India, first woman to practice law in India and Britain<ref>{{londongazette|issue=13774|page=8|city=Edinburgh|date=2 January 1922}}</ref>
* Robert Barton Stewart, Esq., Indian Civil Service, 9 November 1901<ref name="LG27374" />
* Dr William Stokes, for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj<ref name="herald">{{cite news|title=Colonial Office list|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19140101&id=tQ4-AAAAIBAJ&pg=2145,64086|access-date=23 November 2012|newspaper=[[Glasgow Herald]]|date=1 January 1914}}</ref>
* Rev Dr Frederick Vincent Thomas, Baptist Medical Mission, Palwal<ref>{{Cite journal|date=1922|title=Annual Report of the Baptist Missionary Society|pages=67}}</ref>
* [[Edgar Thurston]], for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj<ref name="1905indialist" />
* Gajadhar Upadhaya, Esq., Chief Regimental Religious Teacher, 1st (K.G.V.s Own) G.R. [Gurkha Rifles]<ref>Office of the Private Secretary to the Viceroy (NAI), 4-H/1948.</ref>
* [[Raja Ravi Verma]], for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj<ref name="1905indialist" />
* Captain Edmund Wilkinson, FRCS, Indian Medical Service, 9 November 1901<ref name="LG27374" />
* HH [[Rajagopala Krishna Yachendra of Venkatagiri|Rajagopala Krishna Yachendra, Maharaja of Venkatagiri.]]<ref name="1905indialist" />
* [[Arthur Younghusband|Arthur Delaval Younghusband]], civil servant, awarded for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj<ref name="1905indialist" />
* [[Francis Younghusband|Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband]], British Army officer, explorer, and spiritual writer<ref name="1915IndianBio" />
* Dr Jean Murray Orkney, Chief Medical Officer, Women's Medical Service<ref>{{Cite news|date=1 January 1948|title=Kaisar-I-Hind Gold Medal|work=The Manchester Guardian|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/259399551/?terms=Jean%20Orkney&match=1|access-date=15 November 2021}}</ref>
* [[Jane Leeke Latham]], missionary head in 1938.<ref>{{Cite ODNB |title=The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |date=2004-09-23 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/51785 |pages=ref:odnb/51785 |editor-last=Matthew |editor-first=H. C. G. |place=Oxford |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/51785 |access-date=2022-11-05 |editor2-last=Harrison |editor2-first=B.}}</ref>
* [[Dhanvanthi Rama Rau]] for her work with women's associations.<ref name="Open University">{{Cite web|author=|url=https://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/dhanvanthi-rama-rau|title=Dhanvanthi Rama Rau|publisher=The Open University}}</ref>

'''Silver medal'''
* [[Kheroth Bose]], medical missionary, for bringing medical care to rural India.<ref>''Building with India'', page 207. [https://archive.org/stream/buildingwithindi00flemiala/buildingwithindi00flemiala_djvu.txt Full text archive]</ref>
* [[Blanche Brenton Carey]], Church of England Zenana Missionary in Karachi, for services to the women and girls of India, 1928.<ref>{{cite web|title= The Church of England Zenana Missionary Society Jubilee Souvenir 1880 - 1930 page 16 |website=Internet Archive |publisher=London 1930 |access-date=23 March 2022| url=https://archive.org/details/MN41450ucmf_3/page/n33/mode/2up?q=%22kaiser-i-hind%22+carey&view=theater}}</ref>
* [[Sita Devi (Maharani of Kapurthala)|Sita Devi Sahiba]], [[Princess|Maharajkumarani]] of Kapurthala, New Year's Honours list 1944
* [[Diana Hartley]], General and Organising Secretary of the Trained Nurses Association of India, 1944<ref>{{Cite web |title=Collection: Diana Hartley Indian Collection {{!}} ArchiveSearch |url=https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories/2/resources/637 |access-date=2024-08-19 |website=archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk}}</ref>
* [[Alice Headwards-Hunter]], surgeon, 1945<ref>{{Cite journal|date=29 September 1973|title=Obituary Notices|url=http://www.bmj.com/content/3/5882/700|journal=Br Med J|volume=3|issue=5882|pages=700–701|doi=10.1136/bmj.3.5882.700|issn=0007-1447|pmid=4599586|s2cid=220148530|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
* Dr [[Mina MacKenzie]], medical doctor for over 30 years of public service in India, including helping control the cholera epidemic during the 1906 Kumbh Mela pilgrimage<ref>{{cite web|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/98be9150-aeda-41d2-8eb3-6c84ed96e8a9|title=The Discovery Service|website=Discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk}}</ref>
* [[Alexandrina Matilda MacPhail|Dr Alexandrina Matilda MacPhail]], medical missionary<ref>{{Cite book|title=The King and Queen in India : a Record of the Visit of Their Imperial Majesties the King Emperor and Queen Empress to India, from December 2nd, 1911, to January 10th, 1912.|last=Reed|first=Stanley|publisher=BENNETT, COLEMAN & Co|year=1912|page=368}}</ref>
* [[Clare Spurgin]], for establishing a hospital for wives of Indian Army soldiers
* Alexander Steel, for services to cotton growing<ref>''Glasgow Herald'' 1916</ref>
* Helen Vorley, for her part in facilitating the evacuation of 300,000 Indians from Burma in 1942<ref>Leigh, Michael D. 2014 ''The evacuation of civilians from Burma: analysing the 1942 colonial disaster''</ref>
* Sir [[William James Wanless]], for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj<ref name=obit>{{cite journal | date = March 25, 1933 | title = Sir William James Wanless | journal = [[The British Medical Journal]] | pmc=2368392 | pmid=20777450 | volume = 1 | issue = 3768 | pages = 544–5 | doi=10.1136/bmj.1.3768.544-d}}</ref>

'''Bronze medal'''
* [[Aeneas Francon Williams|Clara Anne Williams]] (née Rendall), 1946, for her work during [[WWII]] being in-charge of [[Red Cross]] Work in [[Dooars]], [[Bengal]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=Medical News |journal=The Indian Medical Gazette |date=December 1945 |volume=80 |issue=12 |pages=629–632 |pmid=29015760 |pmc=5218119 }}</ref>

'''Unknown grade'''

1930 Captain Albert Edward Warhurst for service to the people of India during the 1929 floods in Assam
* ''Dewan Bahadur Justice'' [[C.V. Viswanatha Sastri]]
* [[Kaviraj Shyamaldas|Kaviraja Shyamaldas]] (1836–1893), one of the first modern Indian historian and author of Vir Vinod; [[Kaviraj]]a and [[Dewan]] of [[Kingdom of Mewar|Udaipur State]]<ref>Cultural contours of India p37</ref>
* [[Frederick Booth-Tucker]], Commissioner in the [[Salvation Army]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www1.salvationarmy.org/ind/www_ind.nsf/ce952dea4507ee7780256cf4005d2254/80256e520050a2e280256c18005b7a21!OpenDocument|title=Frederick Booth-Tucker|publisher=salvationarmy.org|access-date=18 November 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510014118/http://www1.salvationarmy.org/ind/www_ind.nsf/ce952dea4507ee7780256cf4005d2254/80256e520050a2e280256c18005b7a21!OpenDocument|archive-date=10 May 2012}}</ref>
* [[Charles Burnett (British Army officer)|General Sir Charles John Burnett]]<ref name=1905indialist/>
* [[Bramwell Cook (Salvation Army officer)|Alfred Bramwell Cook]], chief medical officer of the Emery Hospital, [[Anand, Gujarat]]<ref name="DNZB Cook">{{DNZB|title=Alfred Bramwell Cook|first=C. R.|last=Bradwell|id=5c31|accessdate=1 December 2011}}</ref>
* [[Liston Garthwaite]] (May, 1900)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Office|first=Great Britain India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&q=Liston+Garthwaite&pg=PA500|title=The India List and India Office List for ...|date=1819|publisher=Harrison and Sons|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Khamliana|Khamliana Sailo]], a Mizo chief, for developing of terracing, poultry farming, fruits, tobacco and turmeric including agricultural businesses in Mizoram.<ref>{{cite book |last=Tribal Research Institute |date=1993 |title=Objects of Mizo Antiquity |url=https://ia801501.us.archive.org/16/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.467497/2015.467497.objects-Of_text.pdf |location=Aizawl |publisher=J & J Press|page=11}}</ref>
* [[Isabel Kerr]] (1923), medical missionary, for working with lepers<ref name="A1999">{{cite book|author=Gerald H. Anderson|title=Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oQ8BFk9K0ToC&pg=PA359|year=1999|publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing|isbn=978-0-8028-4680-8|page=359}}</ref>
* Florence Mary Macnaghten
* HH [[Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III|Sayajirao Gaekwad III, Maharaja of Baroda]]
* HH [[Bhagvatsingh of Gondal|Bhagvatsingh, Maharaja of Gondal]]
* HH [[Tukojirao Holkar II|Tukojirao Holkar II, Maharaja of Indore]]
* HH [[Sultan Shah Jahan, Begum of Bhopal]]
* [[Khan Bahadur Raja Jahandad Khan]]
* [[Seth Jehangir Hormusji Kothari]], merchant and philanthropist from [[Karachi]] (present-day [[Pakistan]])
* HH [[Khengarji III of Kutch|Khengarji III, Maharao of Kutch]]
* [[Pandita Ramabai]], for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj
* [[Edward Sell (canon)|Edward Sell]], missionary and Islamic scholar<ref>{{cite book|title=The India Office and Burma Office List|year=1920|publisher=Harrison|page=190|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kSdEAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Edward+Sell%22}}</ref>
* [[Udai Pratap Nath Shah Deo|Udai Pratap Nath Shah Deo, Maharaja of Chotanagpur]]
* HH [[Pratap Singh of Idar|Pratap Singh, Maharaja of Idar]]
* HH [[Partab Singh of Kashmir|Partab Singh, Maharaja of Kashmir]]
* HH [[Ram Singh of Bharatpur|Ram Singh, Maharaja of Bharatpur]]
* HH [[Rana Nihal Singh|Nihal Singh, Rana of Dholpur]]
* Dr [[Howard Somervell]], [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]], for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj<ref>Cecil Northcott, '[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31701?docPos=3 Somervell, (Theodore) Howard (1890–1975)]', rev., [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]], [[Oxford University Press]], 2004</ref>
* Sir [[Robert Stanes]], for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj
* [[Parukutty Nethyar Amma]] (Lady Rama Varma of Cochin) received the medal in 1919 for public work.
* Sister [[R. S. Subbalakshmi]], educationist and social worker, Madras, for the educating and upliftment of child widows, in 1920
* HH [[Ayilyam Thirunal of Travancore|Ayilyam Thirunal, Maharaja of Travancore]]
* HH [[Visakham Thirunal|Visakham Thirunal, Maharaja of Travancore]]
* [[Sir Vicar-ul-Umra]], for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj
* [[Visvesvaraya|Bharat Ratna Sir Mokshagundam Visveswaraiah]], KCIE, Indian engineer, scholar, statesman and the Diwan of Mysore<ref>{{cite book|last=Narayana Rao|first=V S|title=Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya: his life and work|year=1973|publisher=Geetha Book House|page=14}}</ref>
* [[Charlotte Viall Wiser]], co-author of ''Behind Mud Walls'', [[nutritionist]], and [[Presbyterian]] [[missionary]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.las.iastate.edu/plaza/one_name.php?id=1273|title=Plaza of Heroines at Iowa State University|publisher=Las.iastate.edu|date=17 December 1966|access-date=19 November 2012|archive-date=14 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514191729/http://www.las.iastate.edu/plaza/one_name.php?id=1273|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Mona Chandravati Gupta]], Myanmar-born Indian social worker, educationist and the founder of Nari Sewa Samiti, a non governmental organization working for the social and economic upliftment of women<ref name="Yasni">{{cite web|url=http://www.yasni.info/ext.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnarishikshaniketanpgcollege.com%2Fabout.htm&name=Mona+Gupta&showads=1&lc=en-us&lg=en&rg=pl&rip=ae|title=Yasni|publisher=Yasni|access-date=7 May 2015}}</ref>
* [[Silverine Swer]], Khasi environmental and social activist<ref name="Kong Sil passes away at 103">{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140202/jsp/frontpage/story_17890344.jsp#.VgD04vmSxAC|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306202000/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140202/jsp/frontpage/story_17890344.jsp#.VgD04vmSxAC|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 March 2014|title=Kong Sil passes away at 103|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=2 February 2014|access-date=22 September 2015}}</ref>
* Khan Bahadur Abu Nasr Muhammad Yahia, Zamindar and Honorary Magistrate of Sylhet, for public services in British India<ref>{{cite journal|journal=[[The London Gazette]]|title=Supplement to the London Gazette|date=1 January 1924|page=6|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32893/supplement/6/data.pdf}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[British and Commonwealth orders and decorations]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{commons category-inline|Kaisar-i-Hind Medal}}
* [http://www.medals.org.uk/united-kingdom/united-kingdom064.htm Image of obverse side of Gold Kaisar-i-Hind Medal] at medals.org.uk

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