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a history of british india from the earliest english intercourse to the present

by charles macfarlane

Medicine » India

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India’s length from Cashmir to Cape Comorin is about 1,900 English miles; and its breadth from the mouth of the Indus to the mountains to the East of the Baramputra river is considerably more than 1,500 English miles. It is crossed from east to west by a chain of mountains. Guzerat and Bengal are concerned by the natives as being included neither in Hindustan nor the Declcan; they differ greatly from each other, but each is like the part of Hindustan which is nearest to it. Its population is about 140,500,000. This is a great book on history that contains British point of view of the Empire.

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...acquittal (1774), being at his town-mansion in Berkeley-square, he had a violent access of the most painful of his maladies. He had recourse to powerful doses of opium. The drug did not soothe, and a paroxysm of irritability was added to the paroxysm of the disease ; in the course of the 22nd of that dreary month, he died by his own hand. He had only just completed his forty-ninth year. * * ' Annual Register. ' Sir John Malcolm, * Life of Clive. ' * Par- liamentary History. ' 110 WAEEEN HASTINGS. [1774. CHAPTER XIII. In proceeding to the choice of the first governor-general of Bengal, in pursuance of the " Regulating Act, " there was scarcely any difference of opinion as to the person most fit for the post. Long experience in India, proved capacity, indefatigable industry, and other merits, all pointed to Mr. "Warren Hastings, who was accordingly named by the new parliamentary authority. Clive had considered him the best man that could be selected, and had hastened to congratulate him...