Charles Augustus Kincaid

Charles Augustus Kincaid, CVO (1870–1954) was a British administrator in India. A member of the Indian Civil Service, he was the son of Major-General William Kincaid, sometime Resident of Bhopal.

Kincaid co-authored with Dattatray Balwant Parasnis, the History of the Maratha People in three volumes. Higher in command requested that the book not be published because of its favorable portrayal of some Indian figures.[1] He was a high court judge in colonial India and a prolific author.[2] He was educated at Sherborne.[3]

His son, Dennis Kincaid, was also a civil servant, author of two novels and the historical study British Social Life in India, 1608–1937.[4][5]

References

1. MacMillan, Margaret (9 October 2007). Women of the Raj: The Mothers, Wives, and Daughters of the British Empire in India. Random House Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-8129-7639-7.
2. "Early Clan History". Archived from the original on 10 February 2009. Retrieved 16 December 2008.
3. "The Sherborne Register 1550-1950" (PDF). Old Shirbirnian Society. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
4. Dennis Kincaid (1938). British Social Life in India, 1608–1937. Routledge. p. xxi. ISBN 0-7100-7284-8.
5. "Obituaries: Mr. Dennis Kincaid". The Times. 11 June 1937. Retrieved 23 November 2010.

• Kincaid Clan history
• History of the Maratha People Vol1 Vol2 Vol3

Further reading

• Tikekar, Aroon (1992). The Kincaids, Two Generations of a British Family in the Indian Civil Service. New Delhi: Promilla & Co. ISBN 978-81-85002-13-2.

External links

• Works by or about Charles Augustus Kincaid at Wikisource
• Works by Charles Augustus Kincaid at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Charles Augustus Kincaid at the Internet Archive