The ''Rulers of India'' was a biographical book series edited by William Wilson Hunter 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 in March 1887 and settled in

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, England. On 13 March 1889

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, 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

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{{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