The English Factories In India 1651 1660

Author : William Foster Cle
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ISBN 13 : 9781331895855
Total Pages : 454 pages
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Download or read book The English Factories in India 1655-1660 (Classic Reprint) written by William Foster Cle and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The English Factories in India 1655-1660 The changed plan on which this series has been resumed, after the pause imposed by the war, requires a few words of explanation. In the earlier volumes the method followed was that of the calendars prepared by the Public Record Office, that is to say, a detailed analysis was given of every document available, and these summaries were arranged in strict chronological order, a unifying element being supplied in the shape of an introduction. Now, however, a point has been reached at which the materials rapidly increase; for example, the documents available for the year 1659 number nearly five hundred and those for 1660 about three hundred, as compared with a yearly average of seventy-five in the volumes already published. At the same time, as the increase is mainly due to the survival of certain letter-books, &c, transcribed from the records kept at particular factories, many of the documents are concerned with commercial details which have lost their importance, and there is a considerable amount of repetition. In these circumstances, to persevere on the old lines would have greatly retarded progress and would have entailed an expenditure difficult to justify. It was decided, therefore, to change the method of procedure: to extract merely those passages which seemed to merit preservation, and to connect them by a narrative which would at the same time embody the information obtained from other documents which it was not thought necessary to quote in full. This plan admits of an arrangement, partly chronological and partly geographical, which makes it easier for the reader to follow the course of events. The outcome of the change is that the present volume covers a period of six years instead of four (the average hitherto), and contains the results of an examination of over eleven hundred documents, few of which have been utilized before. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.