# Rulers of India series

The Rulers of India was a biographical book series edited by William Wilson Hunter and published by Clarendon Press, Oxford. Hunter himself contributed the volumes on Dalhousie (1890) and Mayo (1891) to the series.

## Background

William Hunter retired from his long career as a member of the Indian Civil Service in March 1887 and settled in Oxford, England. On 13 March 1889 Philip Lyttelton Gell, then Secretary to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press, wrote to Hunter about
   a project which has been for some time under the consideration of the Delegates, to publish a series giving the salient features of Indian History in the Biographies of successive Generals and Administrators.
Gell arranged the publication of the series by June 1889; with Hunter receiving £75 for each volume, and the author £25. Financial constraints forced the series to end at 28 volumes in spite of Hunter's disappointment about the same.

## Volumes

| Volume | Year | Author | Title | References | External scan |
| 1 | - | Vincent Arthur Smith | Asoka | - | Wikisource transcription project |
| 2 | - | Stanley Lane-Poole | Babur | - | Wikisource transcription project |
| 3 | - | H. Morse Stephens | Albuquerque | - | Wikisource transcription project |
| 4 | - | George Bruce Malleson | Akbar | | Wikisource transcription project |
| 5 | - | Stanley Lane-Poole | Aurangzeb | - | Wikisource transcription project |
| 6 | - | George Bruce Malleson | Joseph François Dupleix | | Wikisource transcription project |
| 7 | - | George Bruce Malleson | Lord Clive | | Wikisource transcription project |
| 8 | - | Lionel James Trotter | Warren Hastings | | Wikisource transcription project |
| 9 | - | Henry George Keene | Madhava Rao Sindhia | - | Wikisource transcription project |
| 10 | - | Walter Scott Seton-Karr | The Marquis of Cornwallis | - | Wikisource transcription project |
| 11 | - | Lewin Bentham Bowring | Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan | - | Wikisource transcription project |
| 12 | - | William Holden Hutton | The Marquess Wellesley | | Wikisource transcription project |
| 13 | - | Major Ross of Bladensburg | The Marquess of Hastings | - | Wikisource transcription project |
| 14 | - | James Sutherland Cotton | Mountstuart Elphinstone | | Wikisource transcription project |
| 15 | - | John Bradshaw | Sir Thomas Munro | - | Wikisource transcription project |
| 16 | - | Anne T. Ritchie and Richardson Evans | The Earl Amherst | - | Wikisource transcription project |
| 17 | - | Demetrius Charles Boulger | Lord William Bentinck | - | Wikisource transcription project |
| 18 | - | Lionel James Trotter | The Earl of Auckland | - | Wikisource transcription project |
| 19 | - | Charles Stewart Hardinge | Sir Henry Hardinge | - | Wikisource transcription project |
| 20 | - | Lepel Griffin | Ranjit Singh | - | Wikisource transcription project |
| 21 | - | William Wilson Hunter | The Marquess of Dalhousie | | Wikisource transcription project |
| 22 | - | Richard Temple | James Thomason | - | Wikisource transcription project |
| 23 | - | Auckland Colvin | John Russell Colvin | | Wikisource transcription project |
| 24 | - | James John McLeod Innes | Sir Henry Lawrence | - | Wikisource transcription project |
| 25 | - | Owen Tudor Burne | Clyde and Strathnairn | | Wikisource transcription project |
| 26 | - | Henry Stewart Cunningham | The Earl Canning | - | Wikisource transcription project |
| 27 | - | Charles Umpherston Aitchison | Lord Lawrence | - | Wikisource transcription project |
| 28 | - | William Wilson Hunter | The Earl of Mayo | | Wikisource transcription project |