Author:William Wilson Hunter

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William Wilson Hunter (1840–1900)

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British statistician, historian, and Vice-President of Royal Asiatic Society

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This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB9 by the initials "W. W. H."

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This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "W. W. H."

William Wilson Hunter

Works

• A Comparative Dictionary of the Languages of India and High Asia (1868) (external scan)
• The Annals of Rural Bengal (1872)
  • Vol. 1: Annals of Rural Bengal (transcription project)
  • Vol. 2: Orissa, Vol. 1 (transcription project)
  • Vol. 3: Orissa, Vol. 2 (transcription project)
• A Statistical Account of Bengal (20 vols.)
• The Indian Musalmans (1876) (transcription project)
• A Statistical Account of Assam (2 vols.)
• The Imperial Gazetteer of India, 2nd edition (14 vols.)
• Rulers of India (series, 28 vols.), general editor; in addition, he wrote:
  • The Marquess of Dalhousie (1890) (transcription project)
  • The Earl of Mayo (1892) (transcription project)
• A Brief History of the Indian Peoples (1895) (transcription project)
• History of India (9 vols.), of which he wrote:
  • Vol. 6 (transcription project)
  • Vol. 7 (transcription project)

As editor

• J. W. S. Wyllie, Essays on the External Policy of India (1875) (external scan)

Contributions to EB9

• “Bombay” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1878).
• “Calcutta” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1878).
• “Delhi” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1878).

Contributions to EB1911

• "India," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (History (in part) and Geography and Statistics (in part))

Works about Hunter

• "Hunter, William Wilson," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1901) in 3 vols.
• "Hunter, William Wilson," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)