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

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Works

• Rulers of India series, general editor. Wrote two volumes of the series:
  • The Marquess of Dalhousie (transcription project)
  • The Earl of Mayo (transcription project)

• A Brief history of the Indian peoples (1893) (external scan) (transcription project)
• History of India
  • (Vol. 6) (external scan)
  • (Vol. 7) (external scan)
• Annals of Rural Bengal (1872): Vol 1 (transcription project), Vol 2 (Orissa Vol 1) (transcription project), Vol 3 (Orissa Vol 2) (transcription project)
• The Imperial Gazetteer of India (2nd edition) (1885) - 14 volumes
• The Indian Musalmans (1876) (transcription project)
• A Dictionary of Non-Aryan Languages of India and High Asia
• Essays on the External Policy of India
• A Statistical Account of Bengal (20 vols.)
  • Vol 1 (start transcription)
  • Vol 6 (transcription project)
  • Vol 20 (transcription project)
• A Statistical Account of Assam (2 vols.)

Contributions to EB9

• “Delhi” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1875–1889).

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 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)