Concerning Animals and Other Matters (Esprios Classics)

Edward Hamilton Aitken (1851 Satara India -1909 Edinburgh) was a civil servant in India better known for his humorist writings on natural history in India and as a founding member of the Bombay Natural History Society. He was well known to Anglo-Indians by the pen-name of Eha. He entered the Customs and Salt Department of the Government of Bombay in April 1876 and served in Kharaghoda (referred to as Dustypore in The Tribes on my Frontier) Uran Uttara Kannada and Goa Frontier Ratnagiri and Bombay itself. In May 1903 he was appointed Chief Collector of Customs and Salt Revenue at Karachi and in November 1905 was made Superintendent in charge of the District Gazetteer of Sind. He retired from the service in August 1906.