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 IndiaAsian Educational Services, 1994 - 426 pages A History Of The English Settlements In India. As Told In The Government Records, The Works Of The Old Travellers, And Other Contemporary Documents, From The Earliest Period Down Ot The Rise Of British Power In India. |
Contents
INDIA IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY | 1 |
Renter and husbandman ib 27 | 8 |
War between the four princes | 14 |
Persecuting wars against Hindus | 16 |
Rajput outlaws | 23 |
Full of noise | 29 |
The investment set on foot in the rains | 32 |
Freshwater springs scarce | 38 |
Administration of justice amongst the English | 219 |
Surajudaula Nawab 1756 | 225 |
Prisoners driven through the barracks into the Black Hole | 231 |
Thirst increased by water | 237 |
Demands of the Nawab for hidden treasure | 243 |
Application to the Dutch at Chinsura 245 | 245 |
Explanations 251 | 251 |
Capture of Chandernagore | 257 |
The hill | 44 |
Attempts at a settlement on the eastern side of India | 47 |
Private trade and presents | 53 |
What Pawn is | 59 |
CHAPTER IV | 62 |
Reverend Patrick Warner | 68 |
Petition of Natives of Madras | 82 |
CHAPTER V | 88 |
Application of a Moghuls Life Guardsman | 94 |
Bombay Castle | 109 |
Proclamation of Queen Anne | 115 |
Changes in marriage laws | 121 |
Law at Madras | 127 |
Decay of St Thomé | 133 |
Anwaruddin becomes Nawab | 139 |
Failure of the French claimants to capture Trichinopoly | 141 |
CHAPTER VI | 147 |
Sivaji the Mahratta | 153 |
River Ganges | 155 |
Persecution of Hindus 1680 | 161 |
Despotic powers | 167 |
Mr Weldon | 190 |
Territory and population of the Companys settlement | 196 |
submission of the young Raja | 202 |
Lawlessness of the Nawab | 207 |
The Dewani of Bengal Behar and Orissa 333 | 211 |
Mahratta ditch | 213 |
Difficult position of Clive | 263 |
Previous scheme of Colonel Mill | 270 |
English propose conducting Shah Alam to Delhi | 275 |
Major Carnac and Colonel Coote wished to protect Ram Narain | 281 |
Punishment if guilty | 287 |
Application of Shah Alam for help to recover Delhi | 291 |
Weak capacity of Mr Vansittart | 297 |
all the Directors summoned to Calcutta | 303 |
Mr Vansittarts correspondence with the Nawab 7th March | 308 |
All agents to be abolished All trade to be carried on through | 314 |
Terrible results | 319 |
Diary of Mr Fullerton sole survivor | 325 |
Wrath of Lord Clive | 331 |
Provision for the Nawab Nazim | 334 |
Report of the Select Committee | 340 |
Political relations with Shujaudaula the Nawab Vizier of Oude | 346 |
Departure of Sivaji | 347 |
advanced policy | 352 |
Evils of the Native administration | 358 |
Duties of Supravisors training for higher posts | 364 |
Collusions of collectors and zemindars | 367 |
Oppressions of zemindars | 373 |
Anxiety of the King to go to Delhi | 379 |
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