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*[https://archive.org/details/assamdistrictga00allegoog  ''Assam District Gazetteers, Volume 10:  The Khasi and Jaintia Hills, the Garo Hills and the Lushai Hills''] by B C Allen CS 1906 Archive.org. There are additional volumes in this series available on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website.
 
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=bltFAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''A Description of the Roads in Bengal and Bahar''] by James Rennell 1778 Google Books. Although not a Gazetteer, this book contains many place names.
 
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=bltFAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''A Description of the Roads in Bengal and Bahar''] by James Rennell 1778 Google Books. Although not a Gazetteer, this book contains many place names.
 
*Various ''Bengal District Gazetteers'' are available as searchable pdfs  on [http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in DSpace at West Bengal State Central Library] under the subject category [http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in/dspace/items-by-subject?subject=GAZETTEERS  Gazetteers] and [http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in/dspace/items-by-subject?subject=GAZEETEERS Gazeeteers], the latter includes ''Bengal District Gazetteers: 24-Parganas''  1914 by  L.S.S. O'Malley. Also, many editions  for various districts are available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India|Digital Library of India]] website, under the title ''Bengal District Gazetteers'' including districts in East Bengal.
 
*Various ''Bengal District Gazetteers'' are available as searchable pdfs  on [http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in DSpace at West Bengal State Central Library] under the subject category [http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in/dspace/items-by-subject?subject=GAZETTEERS  Gazetteers] and [http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in/dspace/items-by-subject?subject=GAZEETEERS Gazeeteers], the latter includes ''Bengal District Gazetteers: 24-Parganas''  1914 by  L.S.S. O'Malley. Also, many editions  for various districts are available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India|Digital Library of India]] website, under the title ''Bengal District Gazetteers'' including districts in East Bengal.

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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.

Imperial Gazetteer of India Provincial Series

In 1908/1909 the Imperial Gazetteer of India Provincial Series was published with the following publications:
v. [1] Afghanistan and Nepal - v. [2] Andaman and Nicobar Islands - v. [3] Baluchistan - v. [4] Baroda - v. [5]-[6] Bengal, v. 1-2 - v. [7] Berar-- v. [8]-[9] Bombay Presidency, v. 1-2 - v. [10]-[11] Burma, v. 1-2 --v. [12] Central India - v. [13] Central Provinces - v. [14] Eastern Bengal and Assam - v. [15] Hyderabad State-- v. [16] Kashmir and Jammu - v. [17]-[18] Madras, v. 1-2 - v. [19] Mysore and Coorg. - v. [20] North-West Frontier Province - v. [21]-[22] Punjab, v. 1-2 - v. [23] Rajputana - v. [24]-[25] United Provinces of Agra and Oudh
The following are available on Archive.org

Other gazetteers

India

General

  • The East Indian Gazetteer by Walter Hamilton,
  • A Geographical, Statistical, and Historical description of Hindostan, and the Adjacent Countries by Walter Hamilton 1820 Volume 1, Volume 2 Google Books

Regional

Mysore and Coorg : A gazetteer compiled for the government of India by Lewis Rice Archive.org
Mysore: a Gazetteer compiled for Government Revised Edition
Mysore Gazetteer edited by C. Hayavadana Rao published 1927-1930 in 5 volumes (Volume 2 is in 4 parts) (total 8). Volume 1, Descriptive; Volume 2, Historical (in 4 Parts); Volume 3, Economic; Volume 4, Administrative; Volume 5, Gazetteer; is available to read online on the Digital Library of India website. One volume is available on Archive.org Mysore Gazetteer Volume 2 Part 4:Historical, Modern Period c 1930
  • Punjab District Gazetteers
    • Panjab Digital Library includes a number of Punjab District Gazetteers (The spelling also includes Gazeteer/ Gazetter/ Gazeetter). It is necessary to first register to read more than the first few pages of each book, which are available to read online.
    • Various Punjab District Gazetteers are available to read online on the Digital Library of India website, including
      • Punjab District Gazetteers, Volume XXVIIIA, Rawalpindi District 1907, published 1909. "Table of Contents" commences computer page 8.
  • Rajputana Gazetteer Volume 2 1879 Archive.org
  • The Gazetteer of Sikkim 1894 Archive.org . (Sikkim was a Princely State)
  • A Gazetteer of the Province of Sind by AW Hughes 1876 Archive.org
  • The following volumes are available to read online on the Digital Library of India website: Gazetteer of the Province of Sind by EH Aitken 1907. This contains matters of a permanent character and general interest. ('A' volume) There are also additional 'B' volumes (probably seven) containing statistical tables and matters of local interest, published in 1919 and 1926-1928. The first six are available to read online on DLI
Volume I- Karachi District, 1919, Volume II- Hyderabad District 1927, Volume III -Sukkur District 1928 (catalogued as b vol.iii (karachi district)), Volume IV- Larkana District 1927, Volume V- Nawabshah District 1926, Volume VI-Thar and Parkar District 1926 (Not available online: B Volume VII Upper Sind Frontier District, but it is probably available at the British Library).

Afghanistan

  • Refer Gazetteer of the Countries Adjacent to India on the Northwest by Edward Thornton (1844) under India, Regional
  • Refer Imperial Gazetteer of India Provincial Series above

Burma

  • Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan States (1900-1901) Archive.org

Ceylon

Volume 1, A-K 1896, Volume 2, L-Z 1898

Nepal

  • Refer Imperial Gazetteer of India Provincial Series above

Persian Gulf, Oman And Central Arabia

  • Three volumes of the Gazetteer Of The Persian Gulf, Oman And Central Arabia by J G Lorimer, Indian Civil Service, are available to read online on the Digital Library of India website, being Parts I and II (missing Part III), of Volume 1, Historical, published 1915 and the Geographical section of Volume II, Geographical and Statistical Gazetteer, published 1908.
Both Parts of Volume I, Historical, have the same extensive index, covering all Parts. Part I consists of the 'Arabian' portion of the History. Part I Contents computer pages 12-137. Text commences cp 138. Part II consists of the 'Persian' section of the History. Part II Contents computer pages 10-133. Text commences cp 134. Appendix "Published books and articles" cp 1210. Part III is not available online.
Volume II Geographical and Statistical Gazetteer. There is no Index. Introduction pages i-iii are missing. The text is cp 8-2047 and appears to be all Geographical. The Statistical portion is not available online.

External links

  • India List post by Max Smith regarding Marcus F C Martin, a geographer who devised a simple way to understand the old English spellings for Indian places. “For example, FATEHPUR (‘City of Victory’) is a fairly common placename and by the mid-19th century it could be spelled in at least seven ways: FUTTIHPOOR, FUTIHPORE, FUTTAPORE, FUTTEHPOOR, FUTTIPOUR, FUTTYPOOR, FUTTYPORE etc. Marcus saw that the consonants were fairly accurate and could be reduced to a short code: here ‘FTP’ or, if you prefer 4 characters, ‘FTPR’. Then
a.. treat soft ‘c’, ‘ch’ and ‘chh’ as being the same;
b.. treat hard ‘c’, ‘k’ and ‘q’ also as the same; and
c.. treat double consonants as single (‘ck’ as ‘k’, ‘tt’ as ‘t’ etc);
d.. Ignore vowels, except at the beginning of a name, when they should be replaced by a wildcard, such as a dash (-).
Marcus was apparently delighted to find, using this principle, that OOMRAWUTTEE was modern AMRAOTI (both names will code to ‘-MRT’). He published a pamphlet which is long since out of print, with coded tables for the 3,900 Post Offices that existed in India in 1877, when they were renamed in standardised form and continued until independence.
The principle is quite easy to remember and helps enormously when looking up placenames in atlases and gazetteers.”

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