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THE HISTORY OF

BRITISH INDIA.

FROM 1805 TO 1835.

BY HORACE HAYMAN WILSON, M.A., F.R.S.

MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETIES OF PARIS, BOSTON, AND
CALCUTTA, AND OF THE ORIENTAL SOCIETY OF GERMANY; OF THE IMPERIAL ACADEMIES
OF ST. PETERSBURGH AND VIENNA; OF THE IMPERIAL SOCIETY OF NATURALISTS
OF MOSCOW, AND OF THE ROYAL ACADEMIES OF BERLIN AND MUNICH;
CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY OF FRANCE; PH. DR. IN THE

UNIVERSITY OF BRESLAU; MED. DR. IN THE UNIVERSITY OF

MARBURG, ETC. ETC.; AND RODEN PROFESSOR OF
SANSCRIT IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOLUME I.

LONDON:

JAMES MADDEN, 8, LEADENHALL STREET.

M.DCCC.XLVIII.

LIBRARY OF THE

LELAND STANFORD JR. UNIVERSITY.

A 52731

ADVERTISEMENT.

WHEN I consented to carry a new edition of Mill's History of British India through the press, I engaged to continue the History to the date at which the East India Company's charter was last renewed. The engagement was somewhat ill-considered. It was acceded to under an anticipation that the task could be accomplished with comparative facility, as a residence in Bengal during nearly the entire interval had made me familiar with the general course of the events which had occurred, and some of which I had at various times attempted to record. It was soon evident that I had much miscalculated.

However lively the impression which had been made by the interesting and important character of the transactions I had witnessed, I felt it to be my duty, before undertaking to narrate them, to consult all the available authorities of an original and authentic description in which they were to be traced. Foremost among these were the valuable but volumi

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