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8 PREFACE (1) History of the Mahrattas. James Grant Duff. 3 vols. 1826.

(2) Memoir of Central India. Sir John Malcolm. 2 vols. 1820.

(3) ''Memoirs of Col. Jas. Skinner'', C.B. Baillie Fraser. 2 vols. 1851.

(4) Mémoire du Comte de Boigne (by his son). Chambéri. 1829.

(5) Star-ul-mutdékharin (Ghulém Hosain Khan, translated by a French Creole employed in the office of Warren Hastings: his name was Raymond, and his notes are interesting). 3 vols.

(6) Tarikh-i-Muzafari. (Untranslated MS. by a Muhammadan gentleman in the service of the famous Muhammad Raza Khan, Naib Stba of Bihar, whose title, ‘Muzafar Jang, is preserved in the title.) Some account of these works will be found in Dowson’s Elliot, viii.

(7) Col. Malleson’s Final French Struggles (London, 1884) gives a good account of the doings of Gen. de Boigne and some of the minor European adventurers.

(8) Constant reference is made in the text to the Imperial Gazetteer of India; and the spelling of Oriental words is taken, generally, from the spelling adopted in the xivth vol., or Index, of that valuable work.

[The account of the campaign of 1760-1 is chiefly derived from the narrative of Pandit Kasi Rai (iii, Astatic Researches, 91 ft). The writer was a