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The Chronology of India History Medieval & Modern

1912

THE CHRONOLOGY OF INDIAN HISTORY MEDIEVAL & MODERN PREFACE A WORK of reference containing the principal Fasti of Indian History from the time when European intercourse and comercial relations began with the East on the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope near the close of the fifteenth century has been felt as a desideratum by students and readers. [...] THE CHRONOLOGY OF INDIA FROM THE CLOSE OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. [...] THE purpose of the present work is to enumerate briefly in the order of time the historical events connected with the history of India from the closing years of the fifteenth century when by the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope in 1487 by Bartholomew de Diaz and the opening of a direct sea route to the East the Portuguese began to contend for the exclusive commerce of India. [...] European interest in India was thus stimulated and led to the opening of all the south of Asia to the knoledge and commerce of the West. [...] The enumeration of events is carried down in the following pages from 1492 to the Viceroyalty of the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine 1894.* At the commencement of the period to be dealt with viz.
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Frontmatter
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Preface
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The Chronology of India from the Close of the Fifteenth Century
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Index
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Erratum
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