Interesting Historical Events, Relative to the Provinces of Bengal, and the Empire of Indostan (Volume 1); With a Seasonable Hint and Perswasive to the Honorable the Court of Directors of the East India Company. as Also the Mythology and Cosmogony, Fasts a (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1765. Excerpt: ... ( I02 ) intimately acquainted) escaped from the battle with a few followers, as before recited; he in a few days reached the capital of Oriffa, where many of the friends of Suff'raaz Khan's house resorted to him, he made some attempts to fortify, and inlist troops for the defence of the place but being ill supplied with cannon and ammunition, and receiving certain intelligence of the usurper's approach, with a very superiour force to his own, he thought it prudent to provide for his own safety, by retreating out of the province with his family, dearting from Kuttack four days before the oubah's van-guard reached it, and found an asylum in the Deccan, under Nizzam Al Mulk..Kuttack opened its gates to the Usurper, but he had scarcely settled the government of Oriffa, when he was alarmed with the news, that an army of'80,000Maharattor horsehad entered the province of Bengal, by a passage over the Bierboheen hills, and had already penetrated into the Burdomaan country. The Usurper received this unexpected shock with manifest astonishment; he immediately saw not only his retreat, but every communication with his brother and his his capital cut off. In this dilemma we will leave him for a while, and investigate as well the causes of this invasion, as convey some idea of the people called Maharattors, who for a few years last past, have been as much the dread and terror of the East, as the Got As and Vandals of old were of the West; with this essential difference in their characters, that wheras these were the barbarous invaders of the rights and property of others; those are making justifiable efforts to recover that, which their ancestors had been for ages in peaceable and just possession of. When the Empire of Indoftan was invaded, and in part conquered by ...