The Imperial Gazetteer of India

The Imperial Gazetteer of India
Cover of the 1931 edition, published by the Clarendon Press, Oxford.
Publication date
1881
Media typegazetteer
TextThe Imperial Gazetteer of India at Wikisource
The 1908 edition, in 26 volumes, including the first four encyclopaedic volumes entitled Indian Empire: Descriptive, Historical, Economic and Administrative, and the last volume (26), Atlas.

The Imperial Gazetteer of India was a gazetteer of the British Indian Empire, and is now a historical reference work.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.[1]

The 1908, 1909 and 1931 "New Editions" have four encyclopedic volumes covering the geography, history, economics, and administration of India; 20 volumes of the alphabetically arranged gazetteer, listing places' names and providing statistics and summary information; and one volume each comprising the index and atlas. The New Editions were all published by the Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

  1. ^ The Imperial Gazetteer of India: Volumes Archived 29 August 2021 at the Wayback Machine. dutchinkerala.com. Retrieved 29 August 2021.

The Imperial Gazetteer of India

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