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SIR WILLIAM WILSON HUNTER, K.C.S.I., C.I.E.
M.A. (OXFORD): LL.D. (CAMBRIDGE)
LORD CLIVE
HENRY FROWDE
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE
AMEN CORNER, E.C.
New York
MACMILLAN & CO., 66 FIFTH AVENUE
RULERS OF INDIA
LORD CLIVE
BY COLONEL G. B. MALLESON, C.S.I.
OXFORD
PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
BY HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
PREFACE
The following list represents the works of the last century which Ihave consulted to write this Life of Lord Clive:
Orme's History of Indostan (original edition); The Siyaru-lMuta-akherin of Ghulám Husain Khán (Review of Modern Times),translated copy; Cambridge's War in India (containing the Journalof Stringer Lawrence); The Memoir of Dupleix (in French); Grose'sVoyage to the East Indies; Ive's Voyage and Historical Narrative;Transactions in India from the commencement of the French War in1756 (published in 1786); Caraccioli's Life of Lord Clive;Vansittart's Narrative of the Transactions in Bengal; Ironside'sNarrative of the Military Transactions in Bengal in 1760-1;Verelst's English Government in Bengal; some numbers of theAsiatic Annual Register; Kindersley's Letters; and Scrafton'sLetters; and, for the earlier period—that displaying the periodimmediately preceding and following the dawn of genius—the recentlywritten extracts from the Madras records by Mr. G. W. Forrest.
Of works of scarcely less value published during the present century,I have consulted the admirable volumes by Colonel Mark Wilks, whichbring the History of Southern India down to the storming ofSeringapatam in 1799; The Journal of Captain Dalton, one of theheroes of Trichinopoli, written at the period of Clive's earlyvictories, but only given to the world, with a memoir of his career,in 1886; Lord Stanhope's History of England; Malcolm's Life ofClive; and above all, that mine of wealth to a searcher into thedetails of Clive's services in Bengal, Colonel Broome's History ofthe Bengal Army. Colonel Broome was my intimate and valued friend.He knew more about the history of the rise of the English in Indiathan any man I ever met. He had made the subject a life-study. He hadread every t