Author : Indian Empire
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ISBN 13 : 9781331926634
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (266 download)
Book Synopsis The Imperial Gazetteer of India, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) by : Indian Empire
Download or read book The Imperial Gazetteer of India, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by Indian Empire and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Imperial Gazetteer of India, Vol. 1 The first edition of The Imperial Gazetteer of India was published in nine volumes in 1881. A second edition, augmented to fourteen volumes, was issued in the years 1885-7. A revised form of the article on India, greatly enlarged and with statistics brought up to date, appeared as an independent volume in 1893, under the title of The Indian Empire: Its Peoples, History, and Products. All of these were edited by the late Sir William Wilson Hunter, K. C. S. I., who formed the original plan of the work as far back as 1869, when he was first entrusted with the duty of organizing a statistical survey of the country, and who wrote most of The Indian Empire in its final form with his own hand. His untimely death in 1900 has deprived the present edition of the advantages of his ripe experience and literary skill. The second edition having for some time passed out of print, it was resolved by the Government of India that a new edition should be prepared in connexion with the Census of 1901. The changes, however, that have been introduced, both in the general scheme and in the methods of compilation, may justify its being considered as a new work rather than a new edition. The bulk will be raised from fourteen to twenty-six volumes, including a companion Atlas; and the single volume of 'The Indian Empire' has been expanded into four volumes, entitled respectively 'Descriptive, ' 'Historical, ' 'Economic, ' and 'Administrative.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
