Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter V. india. Geographical Position of India--Extent--Climate--Population--State of India when the English first came there--Asiatic Civilisation--First Charter of the East India Company--First Voyage--First Factory--Madras, Calcutta, Bombay--Rivals of the East India Company--Denial of the Right of the Crown to grant Exclusive Privileges of Foreign Trade--The reunited East India Company--Renewals of the Charter by Act of Parliament--Decay of the Dutch and Portuguese Powers in India, growth of the French--Long and arduous Struggle there between the French and English--Dupleix, his Genius and Ambition--Clive--Misery of India before the Predominance of the English--Character of Mogul Rule--Debasement of the Hindoos--Chief Native Powers--The Mahrattas--The Nizam, the Soubahadar of Bengal, &c.--War between French and English--French Capture of Madras--dive's Defence of Arcot--The Seven Years' War--Surajah Dowlah takes Calcutta--Clive's Victory at Plassy--Lally Tolendal--French Power in India crushed at Wanderwash--Regulating Act passed--Indian Judicature--Warren Hastings--The Cornwallis Regulations--Fox's India Bill--Pitt's--The Double Government--High Character of the Governors-General--Subsidiary Allied States--Lord Wellesley's Conquests--His Schemes for Education--The North-Western Provinces--The Burman Conquests--Changes of the East India Company in 1833--The Afghan War--Conquest of Scinde--Conquest of the Punjab--The Sepoy Mutiny--The immediate Dominion of India vested in the Crown--Statute of Transfer--Royal Proclamation--Principles of Government for India. Turning from North America, and looking eastward along the chart of the world, on which the British possessions are marked out, we see, a little northward of the equator, a large...
