The present volume is a reprint of the District Gazetteers for Howrah first published in the year 1909 under the joint authorship of L.S.S. O'Malley, I.C.S. and Monmohan Chakravarti of the Provincial Civil Service of Bengal who was also a member of the Royal Asiatic Society.
Lewis Sidney Steward O' Malley I.C.S. was educated at Edward School, Normich and graduated from Hertford College, Oxford. He was appointed in 1897. He arrived in India on 7th Dec 1898 and Served in Bengal as Assistant Magistrate and Collector. He later joined as Under Secretary to Govt. General and Revenue Department, in July 1903.
