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About The Book : This book iscontain an explanation of the framework of the Presidency government, its internal constitution, and its relations to the Supreme Government of India and the Provincial administrative body. The book covers the system of Provincial government in regard to its internal constitution and its external relations, including dealings with Native States, as well as its attitude toward the population of the British Districts, particularly with regard to education and land management. The book also covers the government's functions and capitalist, the decentralization of Indian finance, and the judicial and police systems. The book concludes with a discussion of the crucial question of Indian Provincial administration which was the relationship between the government and the people. About The Author: Sir William Wilson Hunter KCSI CIE (1840 – 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 which was eventually published in nine volumes in 1881, then fourteen, and later as a twenty-six volume set after his death. He was educated at the University of Glasgow (BA 1860), Paris and Bonn, acquiring a knowledge of Sanskrit, LL.D., before passing first in the final examination for the Indian Civil Service in 1862. In 1872 Hunter published his history of Orissa. The third International Sanitary Conference held at Constantinople in 1866 declared Hindu and Muslim pilgrimages to be 'the most powerful of all the causes which conduce to the development and propagation of Cholera epidemics'.