Author: Anonymous
Title: The Imperial Gazetteer of India: The Indian Empire
Description: Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1909 . Cloth. A scarce complete four volume set of this fascinating and detailed guide to the Indian Empire, illustrated with folding colour maps. The 'New Edition', complete in four volumes.Illustrated with a folding colour map frontispiece to each volume. Collated, complete.Present here are volume I: Descriptive; volume II: Historical; volume III: Economic, and volume IV: Administrative.Published Under the Authority of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India, this is a fascinating account of many aspects of life in India and the history of the country, including discussion of education, medicine, currency, banking, legislation, geology, and geography.The work offers insight into early twentieth century British colonial perspectives on Indian history and culture. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip heads and tail, with back strips tails of volumes II and III lightly faded. Minor hole in cloth of front board of volume IV, with light tide mark to tail of front board of volume I, and to fore edge of volume II and III boards. Internally, firmly bound. Light offsetting to title pages, with pages otherwise exceptionally clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

Keywords: The Imperial Gazetteer of India The Indian Empire indian history history of india The Indian Empire Not Stated


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