Book Code: 1111007411731
W.W.Hunter
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About The Book : The Statistical Account of Bengal was published in 20 volumes. Each volume proceeds on a uniform pattern. Starting with a description of geography, general aspects and physical features, etc. of each district, it proceeds to a description of its people, their occupations, ethnical divisions and creeds, their material condition and distribution into town and country. Agriculture follows with very revealing information on land tenures, prices and wages, rates of rent and size of land-holdings, and the natural calamities to which the district is subject, Commerce, means of communication, manufactures, capital and interest, and other industrial aspects from the next item. The working of District Administration is then discussed in great detail-its revenue and expenditure; the statistics of protection to person and property, the police, the jails, and the criminal classes; the statistics of education and of the post office, with notices of any local institution, and the statistics of the Administrative Subdivisions. Each account concludes with information on topics like the sanitary aspects of the District, its medical topography, endemic and epidemic diseases, indigenous drugs, medical charities meteorological data, etc. The volumes have immense wealth of knowledge and are of special interest to research scholars, geographers, historians, sociologists, educationists and administrators. About The Author : Sir William Wilson Hunter KCSI CIE (1840 -1900) was a Scottish historian, statistician, a compiler and a member of the Indian Civil Service. He reached Bengal Presidency in November 1862 and was appointed assistant magistrate and collector of Birbhum, in the lower provinces of Bengal, He embarked on a series of tours throughout the country, and he personally supervised the accounts produced for Bengal (20 volumes, 1875-1877) and Assam (2 volumes., 1879). The statistical accounts, covering the 240 administrative districts, comprised 128 volumes and these were condensed into the nine volumes of The Imperial Gazetteer of India, which was published in 1881. The Gazetteer was revised in later series, the second edition comprising 14 volumes published between 1885 and 1887, while the third comprised 26 volumes, including an atlas, and was published in 1908. The Title 'A Statistical Account of Bengal : DISTRICTS OF MALDAH RANGPUR, AND DINAJPUR written/authored/edited by W.W.Hunter', published in the year 2023. The ISBN 9788121299060 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 480 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Asian History, Mathematics . Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:- 7th
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