History of India: From the first European settlements to the founding of the English East India Company Volume 6th [Hardcover]

Language: English. About the Book : The aim of this series of volumes is to present a continuous narrative of the history of India from the dim ages of the past down to the present time, combining into an organic whole a succession of standard works by recognized authorities, each a master of the special period with which he deals, thus providing a complete picture of the development of the country. This series of volumes deal with the following topics, namely, Vol-1 From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century, B. C., Vol-2 From the Sixth Century B.C. to the Mohammedan Conquest, Including the Invasion of Alexander the Great, Vol-3 Mediaeval India from the Mohammedan Conquest to the reign of Akber the Great, Vol-4 From the Reign of Akbar the Great to the Fall of the Moghul Empire, Vol-5 The Mohammedan Period as Described by its Own Historians, Vol-6 From the first European Settlements to the Founding of the English East India Company, Vol-7- The European Struggle for Indian Supremacy in the Seventeenth Century, Vol-8- From the Close of the Seventeenth Century to the Present Time, Vol-9 Historic Accounts of India by Foreign Travellers Classic, Oriental, and Occidental. About The Author : Sir William Wilson Hunter KCSI CIE (1840 -1900) was a Scottish historian, statistician, a compiler and a member of the Indian Civil Service.He is most known for The Imperial Gazetteer of India on which he started working in 1869, and which was eventually published in nine volumes in 1881, then fourteen, and later as a twenty-six volume set after his death. He reached Bengal Presidency in November 1862 and was appointed assistant magistrate and collector of Birbhum, in the lower provinces of Bengal, where he began collecting local traditions and records, which formed the materials for his publication, entitled The Annals of Rural Bengal, which influenced among others the historical romance Durgeshnandini of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay.He also compiled A Comparative Dictionary of the Non-Aryan Languages of India, a glossary of dialects based mainly upon the collections of Brian Houghton Hodgson, which according to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, "testifies to the industry of the writer but contains much immature philological speculation". The Title 'History of India: From the first European settlements to the founding of the English East India Company written/authored/edited by Edited by A.V. Williams Jackson, Sir William Wilson Hunter', published in the year 2022. The ISBN 9788121267755 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 374 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is History. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol: Volume 6th Volume 6th 374.…