1872 Orissa

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

The scarce first edition of this work, complete in two volumes.

These two volumes, a complete work in themselves, are also considered to be volumes II and III of the author's three volume work 'The Annals of Rural Bengal'.

The work details the dynastic history of the region, and details the transition from Maratha to British governance. Hunter is critical of the shortcomings of the colonial administration, in part due to the Orissa Famine of 1866.

Volume I illustrated with a colour frontispiece, folding colour map and fourteen further plates on copper. Volume II illustrated with a frontispiece. 

Collated, complete.

With a separately paginated index and appendix to the rear of volume II.

Hunter was a British civil servant, historian, and statistician, best known for his role in compiling the Imperial Gazetteer of India.