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William Wilson Hunter

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Also known as Sir William Wilson Hunter, William Hunter, Sir William Hunter, Sir William W. Hunter

Scottish historian and statistician (1840-1900)

Person · Open Library

Born
15 July 1840
Died
6 February 1900
Works
111

Top works

  • A statistical account of Bengal
  • A statistical account of Assam
  • England's work in India
  • Minutes of Proceedings of the Royal Artillery Institution, Volume 6
  • Preliminary list of places, rivers, etc., alphabetically arranged for the Imperial gazetteer of India

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Quotes

  • Scholarship is warmed with the holy flame of Christian zeal.
  • To the aboriginal races alone can we appear in the light of friends and deliverers. They have yet to start on the path of progress. It remains for us to decide whether that path is to lead them to Hinduism, or to the purer faith and civilisation which we represent.
  • ‘In the year A.D. 1000 it [the Sutlej] was a tributary of the Hakra, and flowed in the Eastern Nara . . . Thus the Sutlej or the Hakra—for both streams flowed in the same bed—is probably the lost river of the Indian desert, whose waters made the sands of Bikaner and Sind a smiling garden.’

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