The District Gazetteer is a comprehensive geographical, economic, social and cultural catalogue of the

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

n subcontinent catalogued by the British Viceroy during the conquest of India. Most of the catalogues were compiled initially in the late 19th century although many have since been reissued or edited in recent times. Until the publication of the Gazetteers, an attempt to systematically catalogue Indian geography and culture was not available, with the closest approximation being Abu'l Fazl's

Ain-I-Akbari The ''Ain-i-Akbari'' (), or the "Administration of Akbar", is a 16th-century detailed document regarding the administration of the Mughal Empire under Emperor Akbar, written by his court historian, Abu'l Fazl, in the Persian language. It forms ...

, compiled during the reign of

Akbar the Great Akbar (Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar, – ), popularly known as Akbar the Great, was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605. Akbar succeeded his father, Humayun, under a regent, Bairam Khan, who helped the young emperor exp ...

. While many of the Gazetteers are available to the public,{{cite news, url=http://www.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/gazetteer.php?level=2&showFile=1&gazetteerSqlId=20020422124737&gazetteerMainId=&gazetteerFile2Id=&distId=19&gazId=20020422121541&pubYear=&fileExists=&headingSqlName=Preface&chapter=, title=Aurangabad, Maharashtra, District Gazetteer their accuracy is a subject of much dispute among academics and scholars. They are still not to be neglected in that they are one of the more comprehensive attempts by a third-party source to catalogue the immense cultural history of the Indian subcontinent.

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Modern and colonial-era district gazetteers of Punjab State shared by the Revenue and Rehabilitation department
Geography of India Gazetteers of India