Gazetteers
A gazetteer is a geographical dictionary or directory.
Imperial Gazetteer of India
The Imperial Gazetteer of India was created by Sir William Wilson Hunter in 1881.
The third edition, published between 1909 and 1931, is available online, at the Digital South Asia Library, consisting of 24 volumes of text, and 1 volume of maps. It was first published, due to the efforts of Sir William Wilson Hunter, in 9 volumes in 1881 with a second edition of 14 volumes in 1885–1887.
Other gazetteers
India
General
- The East Indian Gazetteer by Walter Hamilton,
- A-Z 1st edition (1815) Archive.org
- Volume 2, I-Z 2nd edition (1828) Google Books
- A Gazetteer of the Territories under the Government of the East-India Company, and of the Native States on the Continent of India A-PUTTA by Edward Thornton (1857) OOJ-Z (1854) Google Books
Regional
- Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency Volumes 1-27, (missing Volume 7 Baroda), 1877-1904 Archive.org
- Gazetteer of the Countries Adjacent to India on the Northwest by Edward Thornton (1844). Includes the Sind, Afghanistan, Baluchistan and the Punjab.
- Volume 1, A-K Google Books
- A Gazetteer of the Province of Sind by AW Hughes (1876) Archive.org
- A Gazetteer of Southern India: with the Tenasserim Provinces and Singapore Pharoah and Co (1855) Google Books
- Gazetteer of the Province of Oudh (1877-1878) Archive .org
Burma
- The British Burma Gazetteer Volume 2, A-Z (1879) Archive.org
- Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan States (1900-1901) Archive.org
- Part 1, Volume 1 includes Chapter 10, Ethnology with Vocabularies
- Part 2, Volume 1 A-K
- Part 2, Volume 2 L-P
- Part 2, Volume 3 R-Z