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British India

1908

The early history of commerce between the East and the West the gradual passing of the course of that commerce from the Mediterranean to the route round the Cape of Good Hope the long struggle between the Dutch French and English for predominance which ultimately left England at the close of the seventeenth century in coplete possession of the seas and absolute command over the Eastern trade [...] Tyre the city of the Phoenicians grew in the days of Hiram to be the mistress of the seas and the " merchant of the people for many isles." Westward"TYRE MISTRESS OF THE SEAS. [...] He then passed on towards the East where he broke in pieces the empire of Cyrus swept up the wealth of Babylon and Susa and slew Darius thus avenging the insults that Xerxes and Mardonius had offered to the altars and temples of Greece leaving nought to tell of the wealth and power of the Persian nation save the burned ruins of Persepolis and the rifled tomb of Cyrus. [...] Constantinople—then extended over all the lands on the borders of the Mediterranean Sea its commands being obeyed from the Atlantic to the Euphrates while in Persia the ancient dynasty of Cyrus and Darius had been reinstated when Artaxerxes in the third centurywas proclaimed king and the religion of Zoroaster the belief in Ormuzd and Ahriman the contending powers of light and darkness once [...] From there in a series of letters written to his father he aroused the interest of the English people in the East by the vivid account he gave of the trade of the Portuguese and the fertility of the land.
history
Pages
416
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142622
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xvi R.W. Frazer view
I. Early History of the Indian Commerce
1-26 unknown view
II. Rise of the Honourable East India Company
27-47 unknown view
III. India on the Eve of Conquest
48-67 unknown view
IV. French Efforts to Establishm an Empire in India
68-77 unknown view
V. Robert Clive
78-118 unknown view
VI. Warren Hastings
119-150 unknown view
VII. Lord Cornwallis and Sir John Shore
151-160 unknown view
VIII. Establishment of British Supremacy Marquess Wellissley
161-185 unknown view
IX. Marquess of Hastings Extension of Influence over Native States
186-200 unknown view
X. Lord Amherst—First Burmese War
201-204 unknown view
XI. Lord William Bentinck(1828-1835)—Commencement of Modern History of British India
205-215 unknown view
XII. Lord Auckland(1836-1842)—Lord Edenborough(1842-1844)𠅁Afghanistan
216-239 unknown view
XIII. Lord Hardinge(1844-1848) the Sikhs and Annexation of the Punjub
240-259 unknown view
XIV. The Mutiny
260-317 unknown view
XV. India under the Crown
318-352 unknown view
XVI. Moral and Material Progress under British Rule
353-390 unknown view
Index
391-400 unknown view

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