The Chronology of Modern India

A work of reference containing the principal Fasti of Indian History from the time when European intercourse and commercial 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. For the earlier history the excellent manual of C. Mabel Duff (Mrs W. R. Rickmers) published 1899 supplied a much felt want and the present volume forms the complement to that work -the two forming a continuous chronology of events in India from the earliest time till the present. About eight years ago materials for the volume were collected from the historical works of Orme Briggs’s Ferishta Elliot and Dowson Mill and Wilson Grant-Duff Elphinstone Marshman Malleson Kaye Holmes Danvers Phayre Trotter and others-too numerous to mention. These were arranged in 1907 but laid aside. In now revising it for the press much of it has been rewritten and considerably extended.