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The Imperial gazetteer of India (Volume XVI) Kotchandpur to Mahavinyaka

The Imperial gazetteer of India (Volume XVI) Kotchandpur to Mahavinyaka

Wilson Hunter, William

Hardcover

AtlasesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354150241
ISBN13: 9789354150241
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Sep 7 2020
Pages: 454
Weight: 1.71
Height: 1.13 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Where place names become history. Concise, forensic and deeply readable. Volume XVI of The Imperial Gazetteer of India, covering Kotchandpur to Mahavinyaka, belongs to the great historical gazetteer collection compiled in the late Victorian era under William Wilson Hunter. As a definitive British India reference book and an indispensable slice of administrative geography, it charts Indian districts and provinces with the factual density that made nineteenth-century India legible to officials, travellers and scholars. The entries preserve colonial India records - place names, jurisdictional notes, economic and demographic snapshots - that serve as primary evidence for South Asian studies, for anyone assembling regional histories of India, and for researchers and historians tracing local change across decades. Equally useful as an academic library resource and unexpectedly engaging to casual readers, the Gazetteer balances sober data with human detail; it stands among Wilson Hunter's works as a sustained act of archival and editorial care. For genealogists, map historians and students of administration, these pages unlock otherwise scattered sources; for collectors and bibliophiles they evoke the late-Victorian era's register and the imperial habit of record-keeping. Geography meets governance here; the result is both a reference and a cultural document. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Attractive to casual readers seeking regional texture and to classic-literature collectors assembling late-Victorian-era India artefacts, this edition bridges scholarly use and private interest: a durable reference for libraries, historians and anyone drawn to the archived record of colonial India. Useful in class reading lists, book-room shelves and research desks, it reconnects contemporary South Asian studies with the primary materials that shape our understanding of India's administrative past. An essential companion for detailed enquiry and for display among classic collections.

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