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Excerpt from The Rise of the British Power in the East
The greater part of the manuscript which is now published had been Copied by a clerk and received some subsequent corrections at the hand of the author. The tenth chapter, which brings the narrrative down to the grant of the Diwani in 1765, is in the author's hand writing. H e had commenced some further chapters on the early relations of the British Government with the Marattas, on the affairs of the Rohillas, and on Hastings's treatment of the Raj a of Benares; but they are mere fragments.
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