''The Imperial Gazetteer of India'' was a

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of the

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, and is now a historical reference work. It was first published in 1881. Sir William Wilson Hunter made the original plans of the book, starting in 1869.The Imperial Gazetteer of India: Volumes
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Editions

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 1885–87. After the death of Sir William Wilson Hunter in 1900, Sir Herbert Hope Risley,

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, Sir Richard Burn and

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compiled the twenty-six volume ''Imperial Gazetteer of India''. 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 Hunter, who formed the original plan of the work in 1869. A parallel series of publications known as the ''Imperial Gazetteer of India: Provincial Series'' were prepared.

Volumes

* *
v. 1
A–B *
v. 2
B-C ** v. 3: C-G ** v. 4: G-J *
v. 5
J-K ** v. 6: K-N *
v. 7
N-R *
v. 8
R-T *
v. 9
T-Z * *
v. 1
A–B *
v. 2
B *
v. 3
B–C *
v. 4
C–G *
v. 5
G–I *
v. 6
I *
v. 7
I–K *
v. 8
K–M *
v. 9
M *
v. 10
M–P *
v. 11
P–R *
v. 12
R–S *
v. 13
S–Z *
v. 14
Index * *
v. 1
Descriptive *
v. 2
Historical *
v. 3
Economic *
v. 4
Administrative *
v. 5
A *
v. 6
A–B *
v. 7
B *
v. 8
B *
v. 9
B–C *
v. 10
C *
v. 11
C–E *
v. 12
E–G *
v. 13
G–J *
v. 14
J–K *
v. 15
K *
v. 16
K–M *
v. 17
M *
v. 18
M–N *
v. 19
N–P *
v. 20
P *
v. 21
P–S *
v. 22
S *
v. 23
S–T *
v. 24
T–Z *
v. 25
Index *
v. 26
Atlas

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Imperial Gazetteer Of India 1881 books 19th-century Indian books Books about British India Gazetteers of India Historiography of India Historiography of Pakistan Reference works in the public domain