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INDIA UNDER BRITISH RULE

by

J. TALBOYS WHEELER


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    BY THE SAME AUTHOR.


     MADRAS IN THE OLDEN TIME, 1639-1748. 3 vols. sm. 8vo. Madras,
      1861-62.

     EARLY TRAVELS IN INDIA. First Series, comprising Purchas's
      "Pilgrimage" and the "Travels of Van Linschoten." 8vo. Calcutta,
      1864.

     EARLY TRAVELS IN INDIA. Second Series, comprising Sir Thomas Roe's
      "Embassy to the Great Mogul" and Fryer's "Travels in India." 8vo.
      London, 1873.

    HISTORY OF INDIA FROM THE EARLIEST AGES. 5 vols. 8vo.
     Vol. I. The Maha Bharata and the Vedic Period. Thick 8vo. Map. 1867.
         II. The Ramayana and the Brahmanic Period. Thick 8vo. Map. 1869.
        III. Hindu, Buddhist, and Brahmanic Revival. 8vo. Map. 1874.
         IV. and V. Mohammedan Rule. 2 vols. 8vo. 1876-82.

     SHORT HISTORY OF INDIA, and of the Frontier States of Afghanistan,
      Nipal, and Burma. Thick-crown 8vo, with Maps and Tables. Macmillan
      and Co. 12_s._ 1880.

     HISTORY OF THE IMPERIAL ASSEMBLAGE AT DELHI, held on the 1st of
      January, 1877, to celebrate the assumption by Her Majesty Queen
      Victoria of the Title of Empress of India; with Historical
      Sketches of India and her Princes. Royal 4to, with 13 Portraits,
      Map, and 17 Illustrations, chiefly by Photographs. 1877.

     EARLY RECORDS OF BRITISH INDIA; a History of the English
      Settlements in India. 8vo. Calcutta, 1878.

     JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE UP THE IRRAWADDY TO MANDALAY AND BHAMO. 8vo.
      Rangoon, 1871.

     TALES FROM INDIAN HISTORY. 12mo. 1881.

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     GEOGRAPHY OF HERODOTUS, Developed, Explained, and Illustrated from
      Modern Researches and Discoveries. Thick 8vo, with Maps and Plans.
      1854.

     LIFE AND TRAVELS OF HERODOTUS. 2 vols. post 8vo. 1855.

     ANALYSIS AND SUMMARY OF HERODOTUS. Post 8vo. Bohn's Philological
      Library. 1852.

     ANALYSIS AND SUMMARY OF THUCYDIDES. Post 8vo. Bohn's Philological
      Library. 1852.

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INDIA UNDER BRITISH RULE

From the Foundation of the East India Company

by

J. TALBOYS WHEELER

Late Assistant-Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department,
and Late Secretary to the Government of British Burma.
Author of "History of India from the Earliest Ages,"
Including the "Maha Bharata" and "Ramayana,"
"A Short History Of India,"
etc., etc.







London
Macmillan and Co.
1886

The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved.

Richard Clay & Sons,
Bread Street Hill, London,
Bungay, Suffolk.




    TO

    SIR CHARLES TREVELYAN, BART.,

    WHO OPENED

    THE OLD MADRAS RECORDS TO THE AUTHOR

    IN 1860,

    This book is Dedicated.




PREFACE.


A hundred years ago, when the lively Miss Frances Burney was weeping
over the wrongs of Warren Hastings, and the learned and portly Gibbon
was still lamenting that he had not entered on an Indian career, there
were people in the British Isles who knew something of Indian history.
They had picked up information respecting Indian affairs from the
speeches of the grave Edmund Burke, the eloquent Charles James Fox, and
the impassioned Richard Brinsley Sheridan. The facts may have come
second hand, and been more or less distorted by the jealous and bitter
fancies of Sir Philip Francis, the reputed author of the _Letters of
Junius_; but facts or fables, they served to enlighten the British
public on the Indian questions of the day