Rulers of India series

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The Rulers of India was a biographical book series edited by

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 - Vincent Arthur Smith Asoka - Wikisource transcription project
2 - Stanley Lane-Poole Babur - Wikisource transcription project
3 - H. Morse Stephens Albuquerque - Wikisource transcription project
4 - George Bruce Malleson Akbar [1] Wikisource transcription project
5 - Stanley Lane-Poole Aurangzeb - Wikisource transcription project
6 - George Bruce Malleson Joseph François Dupleix [1] Wikisource transcription project
7 - George Bruce Malleson Lord Clive [4] Wikisource transcription project
8 - Lionel James Trotter Warren Hastings [2] Wikisource transcription project
9 - Henry George Keene Madhava Rao Sindhia - Wikisource transcription project
10 - Walter Scott Seton-Karr The Marquis of Cornwallis - Wikisource transcription project
11 - Lewin Bentham Bowring Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan - Wikisource transcription project
12 - William Holden Hutton The Marquess Wellesley [4][5] Wikisource transcription project
13 - Major Ross of Bladensburg The Marquess of Hastings - Wikisource transcription project
14 - James Sutherland Cotton Mountstuart Elphinstone [6] Wikisource transcription project
15 - John Bradshaw [7] Sir Thomas Munro - Wikisource transcription project
16 -
Anne T. Ritchie and Richardson Evans
 The Earl Amherst - Wikisource transcription project
17 - Demetrius Charles Boulger Lord William Bentinck - Wikisource transcription project
18 - Lionel James Trotter The Earl of Auckland - Wikisource transcription project
19 - Charles Stewart Hardinge Sir Henry Hardinge - Wikisource transcription project
20 - Lepel Griffin Ranjit Singh - Wikisource transcription project
21 - William Wilson Hunter The Marquess of Dalhousie [1] Wikisource transcription project
22 - Richard Temple James Thomason - Wikisource transcription project
23 - Auckland Colvin John Russell Colvin [8] Wikisource transcription project
24 - James John McLeod Innes
Sir Henry Lawrence
 - Wikisource transcription project
25 - Owen Tudor Burne Clyde and Strathnairn [9] Wikisource transcription project
26 - Henry Stewart Cunningham The Earl Canning - Wikisource transcription project
27 - Charles Umpherston Aitchison Lord Lawrence - Wikisource transcription project
28 - William Wilson Hunter The Earl of Mayo [2] Wikisource transcription project

References

  1. ^
    JSTOR 40938228
    .
  2. ^
    JSTOR 40939452
    .
  3. ^ a b (Chatterjee 2004, pp. 65–102)
  4. ^
    JSTOR 40939319
    .
  5. JSTOR 547604
    .
  6. JSTOR 547455
    .
  7. ^ Charles Edward Buckland (1906). Dictionary of Indian Biography. Swan Sonnenschein. p. 51.
  8. JSTOR 547869
    .
  9. JSTOR 41328306
    .

Bibliography

External links


  • Albuquerque at Project Gutenberg
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