THE

RISE OF OUR INDIAN EMPIRE.

BY LORD MAHON

(NOW EARL STANHOPE).

BEING

THE HISTORY OF BRITISH INDIA

FROM ITS ORIGIN TILL THE PEACE OF 1783.

EXTRACTED FROM

LORD MAHON'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1858.

226. f. 40.

BODLE

MINAL

LONDON:

PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO.

NEW-STREET square.

PREFACE.

IN the year 1851 some extracts of the author's History of England which gave an account of the romantic enterprise of Prince Charles Stuart were published in a small volume, entitled "The FortyFive." In like manner those chapters from the same work which treat of British India are now in a separate form submitted to the public. No alterations whatever have been made in them to suit passing events; the reprint being exactly from the last corrected editions of 1853 and 1854.

January, 1858.