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ABOUT THE BOOK:- The Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1908, consists of 26 Volumes, including the first four(4) encyclopedic Volumes entitled Indian Empire : Descriptive , Historical , Economic , and Administrative . The next 20 volumes of the alphabetically arranged gazetteer, listing places’ names and giving statistics and summary information, and one volume each comprising the index and atlas. The first edition of the Imperial Gazetteer of India was published in 9 Volumes in 1881. A Second edition, augmented to fourteen volumes, was issued in the years 1885-87, after the death of William Wilson Hunter in 1900; Herbert Hope Risley, William Stevenson Meyer, Sir Richard Burn and James Sutherland Cotton compiled the twenty Six Volumes., ABOUT THE AUTHOR:- Sir William Wilson Hunter, KCSI, CIE (15July1840-6 February 1900), was a Scotish historian, Statistician, a compiler and a member of the Indian Civil Services. He reached Bengal Presidency in November 1862 and was appointed assistant magistrate and collector of B