A History of British India, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from A History of British India, Vol. 1: To the Overthrow of the English in the Spice ArchipelagoThis preliminary volume attempts a survey, rapid, yet so far as may be from primary sources, of the early phases of that con¿ict. After a glance at its commercial meaning to the peoples of antiquity, the scene opens with the Ottoman Power in possession of the indo-european trade routes. The first Act discloses the capture of the ocean highways of Asia by Portugal, an exploit which then seemed a maritime extension of the Crusades, and which turned the ¿ank of Islam in its sixteenth century grapple with Christendom. The swift audacity of the little hero-nation forms an epic, compared with which our own early labours in India are plain prose.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.