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 PREFACE

The following list represents the works of the last century which I have consulted to write this Life of Lord Clive:

Orme's History of Indostan (original edition); The Siyaru-l Muta-akherin of Ghulám Husain Khán (Review of Modern Times), translated copy; Cambridge's War in India (containing the Journal of Stringer Lawrence); The Memoir of Dupleix (in French); Grose's Voyage to the East Indies; Ive's Voyage and Historical Narrative; Transactions in India from the commencement of the French War in 1756 (published in 1786); Caraccioli's Life of Lord Clive; Vansittart's Narrative of the Transactions in Bengal; Ironside's Narrative of the Military Transactions in Bengal in 1760-1; Verelst's English Government in Bengal; some numbers of the Asiatic Annual Register; Kindersley's Letters; and Scrafton's Letters; and, for the earlier period — that displaying the period immediately preceding and following the dawn of genius — the recently written 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, which bring the History of Southern India down to the storming of Seringapatam in 1799; The Journal of Captain Dalton,