Author: W. W. Hunter [William Wilson Hunter]
Title: Orissa
Description: London, Smith, Elder & Co, 1872 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of W. W. Hunter's scarce study of the administration of the Orissa region under both indigenous and British rule. The scarce first edition of this work, complete in two volumes.These two volumes, a complete work in themselves, are also considered to be volumes II and III of the author's three volume work 'The Annals of Rural Bengal&apos.The work details the dynastic history of the region, and details the transition from Maratha to British governance. Hunter is critical of the shortcomings of the colonial administration, in part due to the Orissa Famine of 1866.Volume I illustrated with a colour frontispiece, folding colour map and fourteen further plates on copper. Volume II illustrated with a frontispiece. Collated, complete.With a separately paginated index and appendix to the rear of volume II.Hunter was a British civil servant, historian, and statistician, best known for his role in compiling the Imperial Gazetteer of India. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with fading to boards. Front hinge of volume II strained, but a touch tender. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

Keywords: William Wilson Hunter Sir William Wilson Hunter Indian Civil Service Orissa: Or the Vicissitudes of an Indian Province under Native and British Rule Sir William Wilson Hunter Not Stated


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