A Gazetter Of The Territories Under The Government Of The East-India Comp Any, And Of The Native States On The Continent Of India

The desire repeatedly expressed in the General Courts of the East-India Company that an authentic Gazetteer of India should be offered to the British public in a cheap and convenient form, has led to the publication of the present edition. This work has been compiled by the authority of the court of Directors, it will be found to contain the great man of information comprehend in the four volumes of the Gazetteer of India, published by the same author in 1854. This result has been obtained by retrenching some few redundancies, and by adopting an enlarged page and distributing the matter into two separate columns. Its chief objects are-first, to fix the relative position of the various cities, towns, and villages, with as much precision as possible, and to exhibit with the greatest practicable brevity all that is known respecting form; secondly, to note the various countries, provinces, or territorial divisions, and to describe the physical characteristics of each, together with their statistical, social and political circumstances. The volume, in short, may be regarded as an epitome of all that has yet been written and published respecting the territories under the government, or political superintendence of the British power in India.