Author: J Talboys Wheeler
Publisher: LP Publications
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 391
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8175363215
Description
The subject-matter of the present volume is, perhaps, sufficiently told on the title-page. It may, however, be explained that the compiler was originally employed to report on the records of the Home Department in Calcutta, and intended to confine his extracts to the papers preserved there. As, however, he proceeded with the task it was discovered that the value of those records had been much overrated. They were incomplete in them-selves, and not only overloaded with detail, but were mostly written in the verbose style of the eighteenth century. Those of an early date had been destroyed in the great storm of 1737, or were lost at the capture of Calcutta in 1766 by the Nawab of Bengal.
The labour which has been spent upon this volume is beyond all calculation. It cannot be judged by the results, but only from the voluminous records which have been carefully searched but yielded nothing. The time expended, however, will never be regretted should it appear that the information now collected from original or half-for-gotten sources has helped to throw more light upon the rise of British power in India.
Contents
CHAPTER I
India in the Seventeenth Century
CHAPTER II
English At Surat and Bombay
CHAPTER III
English At Madras
CHAPTER IV
Madras Under Golkonda
CHAPTER V
Madras Under The Moghuls
CHAPTER VI
English In Bengal
CHAPTER VII
Calcutta and Its Capture
CHAPTER VIII
First Government of Clive
CHAPTER IX
Calcutta Records: Changing Nawabs
CHAPTER X
Calcutta Records: Private Trade
CHAPTER XI
Calcutta Records: Patna Massacre
CHAPTER XII
Second Government of Clive
CHAPTER XIII
Beginning of British Administration