William Wilson Hunter
| Sir William Wilson Hunter KCSI, CIE, LLD | |||||||||||
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| Born | 1840 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1900 | ||||||||||
| Residence |
Bengal civil service, Calcutta Oxford Alexanderplatz, Weimar [1888] Oxford [1894] | ||||||||||
| Occupation |
academic civil service | ||||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
House Notes
24 nov 1868: A letter having been read from Mr W.W. Hunter accompanying his ‘Comparative dictionary of the languages of India and High Asia’, it was resolved that a special letter of thanks be addressed to Mr Hunter.
Death noted in AGM 1901
Notes From Elsewhere
noted hon. fellow in 1899, also 'sir' etc
Sir William Wilson Hunter KCSI CIE (15 July 1840 – 6 February 1900)[1] was a Scottish historian, statistician, a compiler and a member of the Indian Civil Service.
Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1888
Publications
External Publications
• Sir William Wilson Hunter (1868). A Comparative Dictionary of the Languages of India and High Asia: With a Dissertation. Based on the Hodgson Lists, Official Records, and Mss. Trübner and Company.
• Annals of Rural Bengal. Smith, Elder & Co. 1868.
• Sir William Wilson Hunter (1871). The Indian Musalmans: Are They Bound in Conscience to Rebel Against the Queen?. Trübner and Company.
• Sir William Wilson Hunter (1872). Orissa, Or, The Vicissitudes of an Indian Province Under Native and British Rule. Smith, Elder and Company.
• A Statistical Account of Bengal. London: Trübner & Co. 1875–1879. (20 volumes)
• A Statistical Account of Assam. 1879. (2 volumes)
• A Brief history of the Indian peoples. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1880.
• The Imperial Gazetteer of India. 1881. (26 volumes)
• The Indian Empire: Its People, History, and Products London (Second ed.). Trübner & Co. 1886.
• Sir William Wilson Hunter (1892). Bombay, 1885-1890: A Study in Indian Administration. Frowde.
• The Marquess of Dalhousie. 1894.
• State Education for the People in America, Europe, India, and Australia: With Papers on the Education of Women, Technical Instruction, and Payment by Results. C. W. Bardeen. 1895.
• The Thackerays in India and Some Calcutta Graves. London: Henry Frowde. 1897.
• History of India. London: Grolier Society. 1907.
