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Kaisar-i-Hind Medal

The Kaisar-i-Hind Medal for Public Service in India was a medal awarded by the Emperor/Empress of India between 1900 and 1947, to "any person without distinction of race, occupation, position, or sex ... who shall have distinguished himself by important and useful service in the advancement of the public interest in India."

History
Empress of India or Kaisar-i-Hind, a term coined by the orientalist G.W. Leitner in a deliberate attempt to dissociate British imperial rule from that of preceding dynasties 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 While never officially rescinded, the Kaisar-i-Hind ceased to be awarded following the passage of the Indian Independence Act 1947. 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==
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. 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. ==Notable recipients==
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 • Dr Margaret Ida Balfour, Scottish doctor and campaigner for women's medical health issues • Dr Mary Ronald Bisset, Scottish physician and missionary for women's medical health. • 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. • Richard Burn, for famine services in 1907–08 • Shankar Madhav Chitnavis, Esq., Deputy-Commissioner, Central Provinces, 9 November 1901 • Jim Corbett, 2 January 1928 • The Lady Curzon of Kedleston, for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj • 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 • N S Glazebrook, Esq., JP, of Bombay, 9 November 1901 • Reverend William Henry Jackson of the Blind School, Kemmendine, Rangoon, awarded the gold medal for public services in India, 1930. • Colonel Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob, KCIE, Indian Staff Corps, 9 November 1901 • 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. • Taw Sein Ko, for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj • Sir Francis William Maclean, for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj • Herbert Frederick Mayes, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, Indian Civil Service, 9 Nov 1901 • A Donald Miller, MBE, (1939) for work with the Leprosy Mission 1921-1942 • Rev Charles Henry Monahan, awarded Medal of the First Class in February 1937 for his work as General Superintendent, Methodist Missionary Society, Madras • Olive Monahan, Gold Medal with Bar, retired Chief Medical Officer Kalyani Hospital, Madras • Sarojini Naidu, Received gold medal for organising flood relief work in Hyderabad, later returned in protest over Jallianwala Bagh massacre. • Amina Hydari - social worker, reformer, activist. Received medal for organising flood relief work in Hyderabad during the Musi floods. • Vidyagauri Nilkanth, social reformer, educationist, and writer • William Florey Noyce, Esq., Extra-Assistant Commissioner and Assistant Secretary to the Financial Commissioner, Burma, 9 November 1901 • Babu Sri Ram, Rai Bahadur, for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj • Thomas d'Esterre Roberts, S.J., Archbishop of Bombay, for services to the forces during World War II • HH Madho Rao Scindia, Maharaja Scindia of Gwalior • Robert Barton Stewart, Esq., Indian Civil Service, 9 November 1901 • Rev Dr Frederick Vincent Thomas, Baptist Medical Mission, Palwal • Edgar Thurston, for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj • Raja Ravi Verma, for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj • Jane Leeke Latham, missionary head in 1938. • Dhanvanthi Rama Rau for her work with women's associations. Silver medalKheroth Bose, medical missionary, for bringing medical care to rural India. • Blanche Brenton Carey, Church of England Zenana Missionary in Karachi, for services to the women and girls of India, 1928. • Sita Devi Sahiba, Maharajkumarani of Kapurthala, New Year's Honours list 1944 • Diana Hartley, General and Organising Secretary of the Trained Nurses Association of India, 1944 • Alice Headwards-Hunter, surgeon, 1945 • 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 • Dr Alexandrina Matilda MacPhail, medical missionary • Clare Spurgin, for establishing a hospital for wives of Indian Army soldiers • Alexander Steel, for services to cotton growing • Helen Vorley, for her part in facilitating the evacuation of 300,000 Indians from Burma in 1942 • Sir William James Wanless, for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj Bronze medalClara Anne Williams (née Rendall), 1946, for her work during WWII being in-charge of Red Cross Work in Dooars, Bengal. 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 SastriKaviraja Shyamaldas (1836–1893), one of the first modern Indian historian and author of Vir Vinod; Kaviraja and Dewan of Udaipur StateFrederick Booth-Tucker, Commissioner in the Salvation ArmyGeneral Sir Charles John BurnettListon Garthwaite (May, 1900) • Khamliana Sailo, a Mizo chief, for developing of terracing, poultry farming, fruits, tobacco and turmeric including agricultural businesses in Mizoram. • Isabel Kerr (1923), medical missionary, for working with lepers • Florence Mary Macnaghten • HH Sayajirao Gaekwad III, Maharaja of Baroda • HH Bhagvatsingh, Maharaja of Gondal • HH Tukojirao Holkar II, Maharaja of Indore • HH Sultan Shah Jahan, Begum of BhopalKhan Bahadur Raja Jahandad KhanSeth Jehangir Hormusji Kothari, merchant and philanthropist from Karachi (present-day Pakistan) • HH Khengarji III, Maharao of KutchPandita Ramabai, for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj • Edward Sell, missionary and Islamic scholar • Udai Pratap Nath Shah Deo, Maharaja of Chotanagpur • HH Pratap Singh, Maharaja of Idar • HH Partab Singh, Maharaja of Kashmir • HH Ram Singh, Maharaja of Bharatpur • HH Nihal Singh, Rana of Dholpur • Dr Howard Somervell, OBE, for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj • 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, Maharaja of Travancore • HH Visakham Thirunal, Maharaja of TravancoreSir Vicar-ul-Umra, for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj • Bharat Ratna Sir Mokshagundam Visveswaraiah, KCIE, Indian engineer, scholar, statesman and the Diwan of Mysore • Charlotte Viall Wiser, co-author of Behind Mud Walls, nutritionist, and Presbyterian missionaryMona 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 • Silverine Swer, Khasi environmental and social activist • Khan Bahadur Abu Nasr Muhammad Yahia, Zamindar and Honorary Magistrate of Sylhet, for public services in British India ==See also==
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