The first edition of the
Imperial Gazetteer of India was published in nine volumes in 1881. A second edition, augmented to fourteen volumes, was issued in the years 1885–87. After the death of
Sir William Wilson Hunter in 1900,
Sir Herbert Hope Risley,
William Stevenson Meyer,
Sir Richard Burn and
James Sutherland Cotton compiled the twenty-six volume
Imperial Gazetteer of India. A revised form of the article on India, greatly enlarged and with statistics brought up to date, appeared as an independent volume in 1893, under the title of
The Indian Empire: Its Peoples, History, and Products. All of these were edited by Hunter, who formed the original plan of the work in 1869. A parallel series of publications known as the
Imperial Gazetteer of India: Provincial Series was prepared. == Volumes ==