Brief History Of The Indian Peoples - HB

About the Book :- A very informative, but concise book on various historical events, and popular personalities of Indian history. This edition is a culled account derived from The Indian Empire, by the same author; the latter book being a collection of historical material contained in the Imperial Gazetteer of India There are 16 chapters in this book which notice the historical events in a chronological sequence. The book starts with a chapter on the country and further goes on to discuss the people, the non-Aryans, the Aryans, Buddhism, the Greeks in India, the Scythic invasions, the muhammadan dynasties, the Marathas, European settlements, British rule, the 1857 revolt, and India under the crown. This work has a map of British India, and was first published in 1893 About the Author :- Sir William Wilson Hunter KCSI CIE was a Scottish historian, statistician, a compiler and a member of the Indian Civil Service. 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". 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. The Title 'Brief History Of The Indian Peoples written/authored/edited by W. W. Hunter', published in the year 2020. The ISBN 9788121231565 is as