INDIA UNDER BRITISH RULE

FROM THE

FOUNDATION OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY

BY

J. TALBOYS WHEELER

LATE ASSISTANT-SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, FOREIGN DEPARTMENT, AND LATE SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF BRITISH BURMA. AUTHOR OF "HISTORY OF INDIA FROM THE EARLIEST AGES," INCLUDING THE "MAHA BHARATA" AND "RAMAYANA," "A SHORT HISTORY OF INDIA," ETC., ETC.

London

MACMILLAN AND CO. 1886

The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved.

Richard Clay & Sons, BREAD STREET HILL, LONDON, Bungay, Suffolk.

TO

SIR CHARLES TREVELYAN, Bart.,

WHO OPENED

THE OLD MADRAS RECORDS TO THE AUTHOR

IN 1860,

This book is Dedicated.