MILL'S HISTORY

OF BRITISH INDIA,

BY WILSON.

IN EIGHT VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT

0824 7284

THE HISTORY OF

BRITISH INDIA.

BY JAMES MILL, ESQ.

FOURTH EDITION, WITH NOTES AND CONTINUATION,

BY HORACE HAYMAN WILSON, M. A. F. R. S.

MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY AND OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETIES OF PARIS AND
CALCUTTA; OF THE IMPERIAL SOCIETY OF NATURALISTS OF MOSCOW ;

OF THE ROYAL ACADEMIES OF BERLIN AND MUNICH, ETC. ETC.;

AND BODEN PROFESSOR OF SANSCRIT IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

SUCCESSORS TO PARBURY & CO., 8, LEADENHALL STREET.

L. A. LEWIS, FLEET STREET.

MDCCCXXXX.

LONDON:

E. VARTY. 27, CAMOMILE STREET. BISHOPSGATE.

CONTENTS.

Preface

Glossary

BOOK I.

Commencement of the British Intercourse with India; and the

Circumstances of its progress, till the Establishment of the Com-

pany 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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1

3

CHAPTER II.

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

in 1612, till the Formation of the third Joint-stock in 1631-2........

30

CHAPTER III.

From the Formation of the third Joint-stock, in 1632, till the

Coalition of the Company with the Merchant Adventurers in 1657. 65

CHAPTER IV.

From the Coalition between the Company and the Merchant

Adventurers, till the Project for a new and a rival East India

Company..

89