THE HISTORY

OF BRITISH INDIA,

BY

MILL & WILSON.

IN TEN VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETIES OF PARIS, BOSTON AND CALCUTTA,
AND OF THE ORIENTAL SOCIETY OF GERMANY; OF THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE OF FRANCE, AND THE
IMPERIAL ACADEMIES OF VIENNA AND ST. PETERSBURGU; OF THE ROYAL ACADEMIES

OP BERLIN AND MUNICH, ETC., ETC.; AND DODEN PROFESSOR OF

SANSCRIT IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

VOLUME I.

LONDON:

JAMES MADDEN, 8, LEADENHALL STREET ;

PIPER, STEPHENSON AND SPENCE,

PATERNOSTER ROW.

M. DCCC.LVIII.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY WERTHEIMER AND CO.,

CIRCUS PLACE, FINSBURY CIRCUS.

Commencement of the British Intercourse with India, and the Circum-

stances of its progress, till the Establishment of the Company on a

durable Basis, by the Act of the Sixth of Queen Anne

CHAPTER I.

From the Commencement of the Efforts to begin a Trade with India.

till the Change of the Company from a regulated to a Joint-stock

Company..

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2

CHAPTER II.

From the Change of the Company into a Joint-stock Company, in

1612, till the Formation of the Third Joint-stock in 1631-32

CHAPTER III.

From the Formation of the Third Joint-stock, in 1632, till the Coa-

lition of the Company with the Merchant Adventurers in 1657....

CHAPTER IV.

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45

From the Coalition between the Company and the Merchant Adven-

turers, till the Project for a new and a rival East India Company 62

CHAPTER V.

From the Project of forming a new and rival Company, till the Union

of the two Companies by the Award of Godolphin, in the year