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Gazetteers of British India: Imperial Gazetteer

 

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Sir Herbert Risley, W.S. Meyer, Richard Burn and J.S. Cotton compiled the monumental twenty-six volumes Imperial Gazetteer of India after Hunter’s death. The first four volumes are devoted to descriptive, historical, economical and administrative aspects of the Colony. Volumes five to twenty-four go from A to Z, describing district by district and town by town. The twenty-fifth volume is an Atlas and the twenty-sixth an Index.