Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/indiaunderbritis00wheerich Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). INDIA UNDER BRITISH RULE by J. TALBOYS WHEELER * * * * * * 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 Mahá Bhárata and the Vedic Period. Thick 8vo. Map. 1867. II. The Rámáyana 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. * * * 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. * * * * * * 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.