Early Records of British India: A History of the English Settlements in India, as Told in the Government Records, the Works of Old Travellers, and Other Contemporary Documents, from the Earliest Period Down to the Rise of British Power in India

James Talboys Wheeler

Office of the Superintendent of Government Print., 1878 - British - 391 pages

Contents

• INDIA IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: 1
• Renter and husbandman: 7
• Bigotry and hypocrisy: 13
• Persecuting wars against Hindus: 16
• The course of the Presidents: 34
• Attempts at a settlement on the eastern side of India: 47
• Private trade and presents: 53
• What Pawn is: 59
• 47: 62
• Petition of Natives of Madras: 81
• English defy the Sultan of Golkonda: 87
• Natives mixed with Europeans: 93
• Frontier fortress of Ginjee or Jinjí: 99
• Governor Pitts hospitality: 104
• Law at Madras: 127
• Decay of St Thomé: 133
• War between Great Britain and France: 139
• Despair 231: 142
• River Ganges: 155
• Hughli: 161
• Administration of justice: 167
• Oppression of gomastas: 182
• Mr Weldon: 190
• Territory and population of the Companys settlement: 196
• submission of the young Raja: 202
• The under factories modelled by this: 211
• 158: 220
• Necessity for tranquillity: 232
• ing: 234
• Strange refreshment: 238
• Reason for the Nawabs cruelty: 244
• Hope of release: 249
• Capture of Chandernagore: 257
• Difficult position of Clive: 263
• Previous scheme of Colonel Mill: 270
• Application of Shah Alam for help to recover Delhi: 291
• Weak capacity of Mr Vansittart: 297
• all the Directors summoned to Calcutta: 303
• 299: 314
• F English factory at Patna: 320
• L: 329
• 325: 342
• The Presidency: 346
• Permanent value of Verelsts observations: 366
• Sanction of Directors to Supravisors: 368
• 64: 381
• The advantage of being at the Council: 385
• The Seits or Hindu bankers: 386
• State of Calcutta 175056: 387

Bibliographic information

• Title: Early Records of British India: A History of the English Settlements in India, as Told in the Government Records, the Works of Old Travellers, and Other Contemporary Documents, from the Earliest Period Down to the Rise of British Power in India
• Author: James Talboys Wheeler
• Compiled by: James Talboys Wheeler
• Publisher: Office of the Superintendent of Government Print., 1878
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: May 30, 2008
• Length: 391 pages