Analytical History of India- From the Earliest Times to the Abolition of the Honourable East India Company in 1858

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The object of the Author in compiling the following Analytical Sketch of Indian History, has been to supply a want felt by most students of the more voluminous standard works of Mill, Elphinstone, Thornton, and Marshman, for a condensed outline in one small volume, which should serve at once to recall the memory and guide the eye.

At the same time he has attempted to render it interesting to the general reader, by preserving a medium between a bare analysis and a complete history; so that, without consulting the eminent authorities mentioned above, the mind may readily grasp the principal outlines of the early condition of India, and the rise and progress of the East India Company.

The division of the work is fourfold:-(1) Embracing a period dating from the earliest days to the establishment of the Moguls at Delhi, in A.D. 1526; (2) The Mogul Empire of India (1526-1761); (3) The rise and consolidation of the English power in India, being the period between the years 1600 and 1827 A.D.: (4) The interval between 1827 and 1858 A.D.: from the full establishment of the authority of the East India Company to its final extinction, and the absorption of the Government of the country by the Imperial authorities of Great Britain.

For the more full comprehension of these facts, the Author has provided, in addition to a Table of Contents and a Chronological Index. An Index to the geographical position of the places to which reference is made in the text, bearing the latitudes and longitudes as given in Thornton's "Gazetteer of India." This will be found not only to aid the student who is but partially acquainted with the map of India, but also, by means of occasional accents, to guide him in the ordinary pronunciation of the names.

A List of the principal authorities consulted in the compilation of this work will be found on the next page.

The Author is desirous of acknowledging his obligations in dealing with the history of the Company's legal administration, to Mr. Standish Grove Grady, of the Temple, Recorder of Gravesend, whose lectures he had the privilege of attending.

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