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INDIA,

DURING

THE YEARS

1780, 1781, 1782, & 1783.

BY WILLIAM HODGES, R. A.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR,

AND SOLD BY J. EDWARDS, PALL MALL.

MDCCXCIII.

PREFACE.

THE intimate connexion which has fo long fubfifted between this country and the continent of India, naturally renders every Englishman deeply interested in all that relates to a quarter of the globe which has been the theatre of scenes highly important to his country; and which, perhaps, at the moment when he peruses the description of it, may be the refidence or the grave of fome of

his dearest friends.

It is only matter of furprize, that, of a country fo nearly allied to us, fo little should be known. The public is, indeed, greatly indebted to the learned labours of gentlemen, who have refided there, for the information which they have afforded concerning the Laws and the Religion of the Hindoo tribes; as well as for correct and well digested details of the transactions of the Mogul government. But of the

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