CHANGES WHICH HAVE TAKEN PLACE SINCE THAT
PERIOD IN THE INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION

OF

BRITISH INDIA,

BY ROBERT GRANT, Esq.

LONDON:

Printed for BLACK, PARRY, and Co. Booksellers to the
Hon. East-India Company, Leadenhall Street, and
J. HATCHARD, Piccadilly.

1813.

KONINKL.
BIBLIOTHEEK

TE SHAGE.

Printed by Cox and Baylis, 75, Great Queen Street,

Lincoln's-Inn-Fields.

PREFACE.

In lately submitting to the public a volume on the Expediency of continuing the System by which the Trade and Government of India are at present regulated, the Author mentioned his purpose of immediately following up that publication with Sketches of the History of the East-India Company, accompanied by miscellaneous remarks. The historical essay to which his promise referred is contained in the ensuing pages.

Both the former and the present volume are, in fact, detached members of a larger work, long since projected by the author, but which his want of adequate leisure, ability, and information, and the great extensiveness