Rulers of India series

The Rulers of India was a biographical book series edited by William Wilson Hunter and published from the Clarendon Press, Oxford. Hunter himself contributed the volumes on Dalhousie (1890)[1] and Mayo (1891)[2] to the series.

Background

William Hunter retired from his long career as a member of the Indian Civil Service in March 1887 and settled in Oxford, England. On 13 March 1889 Philip Lyttelton Gell, then Secretary to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press, wrote to Hunter about

a project which has been for some time under the consideration of the Delegates, to publish a series giving the salient features of Indian History in the Biographies of successive Generals and Administrators.[3]

Gell arranged the publication of the series by June 1889; with Hunter receiving £75 for each volume, and the author £25. Financial constraints forced the series to end at 28 volumes in spite of Hunter's disappointment about the same.[3]

Volumes

Volume Year Author Title References External scan
1 - Smith, VincentVincent Arthur Smith Asoka - Wikisource transcription project
2 - Lane-Poole, StanleyStanley Lane-Poole Babur - Wikisource transcription project
3 - Stephens, H. MorseH. Morse Stephens Albuquerque - Wikisource transcription project
4 - Malleson, GeorgeGeorge Bruce Malleson Akbar [1] Wikisource transcription project
5 - Lane-Poole, StanleyStanley Lane-Poole Aurangzeb - Wikisource transcription project
6 - Malleson, GeorgeGeorge Bruce Malleson Dupleix, JosephJoseph François Dupleix [1] Wikisource transcription project
7 - Malleson, GeorgeGeorge Bruce Malleson Clive, RobertLord Clive [4] Wikisource transcription project
8 - Trotter, LionelLionel James Trotter Hastings, WarrenWarren Hastings [2] Wikisource transcription project
9 - Keene, HenryHenry George Keene Sindhia, Madhava RaoMadhava Rao Sindhia - Wikisource transcription project
10 - Seton-Karr, WalterWalter Scott Seton-Karr Cornwallis, CharlesThe Marquis of Cornwallis - Wikisource transcription project
11 - Bowring, LewinLewin Bentham Bowring Ali, HyderHyder Ali and Tipu Sultan - Wikisource transcription project
12 - Hutton, WilliamWilliam Holden Hutton Wellesley, RichardThe Marquess Wellesley [4][5] Wikisource transcription project
13 - George, JohnMajor Ross of Bladensburg Rawdon-Hastings, FrancisThe Marquess of Hastings - Wikisource transcription project
14 - Cotton, JamesJames Sutherland Cotton Elphinstone, MountstuartMountstuart Elphinstone [6] Wikisource transcription project
15 - Bradshaw, JohnJohn Bradshaw [7] Munro, ThomasSir Thomas Munro - Wikisource transcription project
16 - Ritchie, AnneAnne T. Ritchie and Richardson Evans Amherst, WilliamThe Earl Amherst - Wikisource transcription project
17 - Boulger, DemetriusDemetrius Charles Boulger Bentinck, WilliamLord William Bentinck - Wikisource transcription project
18 - Trotter, LionelLionel James Trotter Eden, GeorgeThe Earl of Auckland - Wikisource transcription project
19 - Hardinge, CharlesCharles Stewart Hardinge Hardinge, HenrySir Henry Hardinge - Wikisource transcription project
20 - Griffin, LepelLepel Griffin Singh, RanjitRanjit Singh - Wikisource transcription project
21 - Hunter, WilliamWilliam Wilson Hunter Broun-Ramsay, JamesThe Marquess of Dalhousie [1] Wikisource transcription project
22 - Temple, RichardRichard Temple Thomason, JamesJames Thomason - Wikisource transcription project
23 - Colvin, AucklandAuckland Colvin Colvin, JohnJohn Russell Colvin [8] Wikisource transcription project
24 - Innes, JamesJames John McLeod Innes Lawrence, HenrySir Henry Lawrence - Wikisource transcription project
25 - Burne, OwenOwen Tudor Burne ClydeClyde and Strathnairn [9] Wikisource transcription project
26 - Cunningham, HenryHenry Stewart Cunningham Canning, CharlesThe Earl Canning - Wikisource transcription project
27 - Aitchison, CharlesCharles Umpherston Aitchison Lawrence, JohnLord Lawrence - Wikisource transcription project
28 - Hunter, WilliamWilliam Wilson Hunter Bourke, RichardThe Earl of Mayo [2] Wikisource transcription project

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 H. P. (1891). "Akbar (Rulers of India) by G. B. Malleson; Dupleix by G. B. Malleson; The Marquess of Dalhousie by William Wilson Hunter; Lord Lawrence, (English Men of Action) by Richard Temple". Revue Historique. 47 (2): 387–393. JSTOR 40938228.
  2. 1 2 3 H. P. (1892). "Lord Clive, (English Men of Action) by Charles Wilson; Warren Hastings by Alfred Comyn Lyall; Warren Hastings, (Rulers of India) by L. J. Trotter; The Earl of Mayo by William Wilson Hunter". Revue Historique. 48 (2): 387–400. JSTOR 40939452.
  3. 1 2 (Chatterjee 2004, p. 65–102)
  4. 1 2 H. P. (1895). "Lord Clive, (Rulers of India) by G. B. Malleson; Lord Wellesley by W. H. Hutton; Land Revenue and Tenure in British India by B. H. Badenpowell". Revue Historique. 59 (2): 404–408. JSTOR 40939319.
  5. ↑ Lane-Poole, S. (October 1894). "The Marquess Wellesley, K. G by W. H. Hutton". The English Historical Review. 9 (36): 811–813. JSTOR 547604.
  6. ↑ "Rulers of India: Mountstuart Elphinstone by J. S. Cotton". The English Historical Review. 7 (28): 813. October 1892. JSTOR 547455.
  7. ↑ Charles Edward Buckland (1906). Dictionary of Indian Biography. Swan Sonnenschein. p. 51.
  8. ↑ Hutton, W. H. (July 1895). "John Russell Colvin, the Last Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West under the Company by Auckland Colvin". The English Historical Review. 10 (39): 604. JSTOR 547869.
  9. ↑ "Rulers of India: Clyde and Strathnairn by Owen Tudor Burne". The Journal of the Society of Arts. 40 (2039): 123–124. December 18, 1891. JSTOR 41328306.

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