William Wilson Hunter's History of India, From the First European Settlements to the Founding of the English East India Company is an entertaining and educational examination of India during the Age of Discovery, and this comprehensive work traces the events until India is firmly established as a British colony and the heart of the influential East India Company.
Sir William Wilson Hunter KCSI CIE was a Scottish historian, statistician, a compiler and a member of the Indian Civil Service, who later became Vice President of Royal Asiatic Society.