Rulers of India [23 Volumes]
Multiple Authors, Rulers of India, Oxford: Clarendon Press; 1890-1909, 23 Volumes
An exceptionally good set of this rare set, a collection of 23 volumes.
. W S Seton-Karr, Cornwallis, 1890, 1 map, 202 pages
. L J Trotter, Warren Hastings, 1890, 1 map, 220 pages
. Col Malleson, Dupleix, 1890, 1 map, 190 pages
. H S Cunningham, Earl Canning, 1891, 1 map, 220 pages
. W W Hunter, Mayo, 1891, frontis, map, 210 pages
. Owen Tudor Burne, Clyde and Strathnairn, 1891, frontis, 1 map, 190 pages
. H G Keene, Madhava Rao Sindhia otherwise called Madhoji, 1891, 1 map, 210 pages
. Viscount Hardinge, Hardinge by his son and pvt. secretary in India, 1891, frontis, map, 200 pages
. S Cotton, Elphinstone, 1892, frontis, map, 230 pages
. H Morse Stephens, Albuquerque, 1892, 1 map, 230 pages
. Ross of Blandensburg, Marquess of Hastings, 1893, frontis, 1 map, 230 pages
. G B Malleson, Clive, 1893 1 map, 229 pages
. Lewin D Bowring, Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan and the struggle with the Musalman powers of the South, 1893, 1 map, 233 pages
. L J Trotter, Lord Auckland, 1893, 1 map, 220 pages
. Col G B Malleson, Akbar and the Rise of Mughal Empire, 1894, 1 map, 210 pages
. John Bradshaw, Sir Thomas Munro, and the British settlement of the Madras Presidency, 1894, 1 map, 233 pages
. Charles Aitchison, Lord Lawrence, and the reconstruction of India under the crown, 1894, 1 map,220 pages
. W W Hunter, Dalhousie, and the final Development of the Company's Rule, 1894, frontis, map, 230 pages
. Anne Thackeray Ritchie and Richardson Evans, Amherst, and the British advance eastwards to Burma, 1894, 1 frontis, 1 map 230 pages
. Stanley Lane Poole, Aurangzib and the decay of Mughal Empire, 1896, 1 frontis, 1 map, 220 pages
. W H Hutton, Wellesley, and the development of the company into the supreme power in India, 1909, frontis, 1 map, 215 pages
. D Boulger, William Bentinck, 1897, 1 map, 215 pages
. Stanley Lane Poole, Babar, 1909, frontis, 1 map, 206 pages
Original blue decorated cloth gilt (each)
7.5 x 5 in (18.7 x 12.5 cm) (each)
“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) and Mayo (1891) to the series.
William Hunter retired from his extensive 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. Gell arranged the publication of the series by June 1889; with Hunter receiving 75 pounds for each volume, and the author 25 pounds. Financial constraints forced the series to end at 28 volumes despite Hunter's disappointment about the same”. (Source: Wikipedia)
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