OF THE BRITISH POWER IN INDIA. BY PETER AUBER, M.R.A.S., LATE SECRETARY TO THE HONOURABLE THE COURT OF DIRECTORS OF THE IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: WM. H. ALLEN & CO. Booksellers to the Honourable the East-India Company, AND CALKIN & BUDD, PALL-MALL. Lugar 4-8·43 47326 ΤΟ THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. SIRE, Under the protection of their SOVEREIGN and PARLIAMENT, the EAST-INDIA COMPANY has been the instrument of acquiring those vast possessions, declared by the Act of 1833, to be YOUR MAJESTY'S INDIAN TERRITORIES. That measure suggested the preparation of a Work which, divested of all commercial detail, would comprise within moderate 1 |