THE HISTORY OF INDIA, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE CLOSE OF BY JOHN CLARK MARSHMAN. VOL. III. LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN, READER & DYER. 1867. [The right of Translation is reserved.] ་ THE small proportion of the present work which has been allotted to the Hindoo and Mahomedan period of Indian history has been the subject of remark by those who have honoured the previous volumes with their notice. The author would therefore embrace the present opportunity of explaining that it was intimated to him by the Syndicate of the University of Calcutta that they had adopted Mr. Elphinstone's standard work in reference to that early period, and desired the present work to commence where he had left off, with the history of the British Empire in India. He was happy to be relieved from the necessity of going over ground which had been so fully occupied by that eminent writer, and cheerfully reduced the volume he had already compiled to the dimensions of a simple introduction. 1st November, 1867. |