Filters
Resultaten voor 'will wilson'
-
Imperial Gazetteer of India ..
€ 42,95 -
Imperial Gazetteer of India ..
€ 31,95 -
The Imperial Gazetteer of India
€ 42,95 -
The Imperial Gazetteer of India
€ 31,95 -
The Imperial Gazetteer Of India (Volume Xxi) Pushkar To Salween
An indispensable window into British India: The Imperial Gazetteer of India (Volume XXI), Pushkar to Salween. A landmark reference, fully restored. Compiled under William Wilson Hunter in the late nineteenth century, this volume forms part of the great historical gazetteer collection that once attempted to name, classify and explain the subcontinent from empire's centre. As a british india reference work and a colonial India encyclopedia it combines place-level description, administrative note and cultural observation, serving as an Indian geography resource that has long informed regional studies India and the India travel compendium traditions of Victorian scholarship. Entries range from short factual entries to compact sketches that capture markets, pilgrimage routes and local institutions; the result is both an archival trove for academic research and a readable compendium for the curious. Librarians, local historians and students will find its systematic arrangement indispensable for tracing place-names, officials and shifting boundaries through nineteenth century India.Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. For historians and scholars engaged in imperial administration in India, Victorian era India studies and broader British empire studies the Gazetteer remains a primary reference: it supplies demographic glimpses, bureaucratic context and place-specific detail vital to archival work and academic research in India. At the same time it appeals to casual readers and classic-literature collectors as a cultural artefact - a book to browse for the textures of a vanished world, for unexpected cross-references and for the strange poetry of place-names. Whether employed as a working tool for historians and scholars or as a prized shelf piece for collectors, Volume XXI reconnects modern inquiry with the voices and frameworks of its era and today's readers.
€ 29,10 -
The Imperial Gazetteer Of India (Volume Xviii) Moram To Nayagarh
The Imperial Gazetteer of India (Volume XVIII): Moram to Nayagarh arrives as a sober ledger of empire written in district-sized strokes. A vital reference for scholars. Compiled in the late nineteenth century and set within the imperial gazetteer series, this work functions as a british india reference book and a focused entry in a historical gazetteer collection. Its pages record district-by-district notes on topography, settlement patterns, governance and economy, presenting the granular materials that underpinned colonial administration. Read with attention, it operates as a colonial india encyclopedia of place: measured, factual and sometimes surprising in the small human details it preserves. Arranged district by district and driven by official returns, the Gazetteer preserves the administrative vocabulary and local place-names that prove invaluable for reconstructing nineteenth century india at a local scale. Casual readers will discover a clear-eyed portrait of victorian era india; antiquarian collectors and libraries will prize it as a direct imprint of the india british raj era.As a primary source for indian administrative history and regional geography india, the volume is indispensable to researchers and historians, and it functions handsomely as an academic library resource for courses in south asian studies. Scholars will value its methodical entries for tracing the interaction of landscape and policy; genealogists, local historians and cultural students will uncover leads and context that later narratives often obscure. Its registers and systematic descriptions support comparative work across provinces and illuminate the priorities of imperial governance. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Accessible enough for readers newly curious about colonial social life yet rigorous enough for classic-literature collectors and archivists, it sits at the intersection of utility and cultural memory: a working reference and a document of how empire named and measured its world.
€ 29,20 -
The Imperial gazetteer of India (Volume XVI) Kotchandpur to Mahavinyaka
Where place names become history. Concise, forensic and deeply readable.Volume XVI of The Imperial Gazetteer of India, covering Kotchandpur to Mahavinyaka, belongs to the great historical gazetteer collection compiled in the late Victorian era under William Wilson Hunter. As a definitive British India reference book and an indispensable slice of administrative geography, it charts Indian districts and provinces with the factual density that made nineteenth-century India legible to officials, travellers and scholars. The entries preserve colonial India records - place names, jurisdictional notes, economic and demographic snapshots - that serve as primary evidence for South Asian studies, for anyone assembling regional histories of India, and for researchers and historians tracing local change across decades. Equally useful as an academic library resource and unexpectedly engaging to casual readers, the Gazetteer balances sober data with human detail; it stands among Wilson Hunter's works as a sustained act of archival and editorial care. For genealogists, map historians and students of administration, these pages unlock otherwise scattered sources; for collectors and bibliophiles they evoke the late-Victorian era's register and the imperial habit of record-keeping. Geography meets governance here; the result is both a reference and a cultural document.Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Attractive to casual readers seeking regional texture and to classic-literature collectors assembling late-Victorian-era India artefacts, this edition bridges scholarly use and private interest: a durable reference for libraries, historians and anyone drawn to the archived record of colonial India. Useful in class reading lists, book-room shelves and research desks, it reconnects contemporary South Asian studies with the primary materials that shape our understanding of India's administrative past. An essential companion for detailed enquiry and for display among classic collections.
€ 39,20