The ''Rulers of India'' was a biographical book series edited by
William Wilson Hunter
Sir William Wilson Hunter (15 July 18406 February 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 published from the
Clarendon Press, Oxford. Hunter himself contributed the volumes on
Dalhousie (1890)
and Mayo (1891)
to the series.
Background
William Hunter retired from his long career as a member of the
Indian Civil Service
The Indian Civil Service (ICS), officially known as the Imperial Civil Service, was the higher civil service of the British Empire in India during British rule in the period between 1858 and 1947.
Its members ruled over more than 300 million ...
in March 1887 and settled in
Oxford
Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...
, England. On 13 March 1889
Philip Lyttelton Gell, then Secretary to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press, wrote to Hunter about
Gell arranged the publication of the series by June 1889; with Hunter receiving £75 for each volume, and the author £25. Financial constraints forced the series to end at 28 volumes in spite of Hunter's disappointment about the same.
Volumes
References
Bibliography
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External links
{{Gutenberg, no=35809, name=The Earl of Mayo
Book series introduced in 1889
Multi-volume biographies
Biographies about royalty
Biographies about politicians
Indian biographies
Oxford University Press books