About the Book The Indian sub-continent has been a happy hunting ground for any who held the might of the sword or the gunpowder. From the earliest times from the Aryans till the Britishers, the French and Portuguese who came as traders and by vile established their rule here reads like a romantic story. The battles fought, the intriques and conspiracy, all with the intention of gaining power and pecuniary gratification is the subject matter of the book. The author as he avers in his preface has scrupulously kept himself apart from statistics, financial and administrative legislation. But he takes us through the vast panorama of battles and seiges, usurpations, imprisonments and escapades etc. finally culminating in the establishment of the British rule through the pluck of an English Clerk of the East India Company, Robert Clive. The book is extremely readable and will be useful for comparative study of the foriegn mind and the native gullibility.
Preface In offering this new volume of the Romance of Colonization Series to the Public, a few words by way of preface appear to be necessary. The work is not a history of British India nor of the East India Company, but an attempt to present in a popular form some of the more romantic and salient features of both. The reader whose great delight is in statistics and figures, and to whom the legislative and financial Acts of a country are the marrow of history, must not look here; but whoever likes to read of battles and sieges, of mutinies and usurpations, of imprisonments and escapades, of Oriental treachery and British pluck, of fabulous fortunes rapidly made and as rapidly lost, of sudden rises to power and ended downfalls, of plots and counter plots; whoever, in fact, relishes a story that stirs the blood and makes a man glad that he was born an Englishman-may haply meet with something to his taste in these pages.
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