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WHEN, at the request of Mr. Mackinder, I undertook to
write this little book, I was carefully warned against
statistics and details. Indian statistics have, indeed, been
dealt with so ably, and have been presented to the public
in such attractive form by the late Sir W. W. Hunter in
ais “Imperial Gazetteer of India,” that for more exact
statistical details ‘and figures than those contained in
this brief volume the reader is referred to that great
authority.
[ have, accordingly, relied chiefly on descriptive
methods of treating the infinite variety of the geographical
 configuration and the geographical distributions of
[ndia ; and where my opportunities for personal observa-“lon
 have failed, 1 have had free recourse to the works
of such well-known authorities as Sir W. W. Hunter,
Sir John Strachey, Sir Alfred Lyall, Sir Lepel Griffin,
Sir George Birdwood, General Woodthorpe, Sir James
Scott, Professor Ball, Mr. Oldham (of the Indian Geological
 Survey), and others, all of whom write of Indian
subjects with the refreshing vigour of intimate personal
acquaintance.
The maps have the authority of the Survey of India
0 support them. The spelling of place names is the
spelling authorised by the Indian Government, which,
partly arbitrary and partly systematic, has been found to
answer fairly well. The system (where any system at all
has been adopted) is closely allied to that of the Royal
Geographical Society.

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