Excerpt from Letters on IndiaWhen these letters were originally printed, I had no intention whatever of submitting them to the tender mercies of a critical public: they were in tended for private circulation only, and on that account possibly contain freer remarks on men and matters, than is advisable in a work that courts publicity. Be that as it may, for some reason or another, probably because everything on India goes down now-a-days, they have attracted more attention than I expected, and consequently, to use the stereo typed phraseology of modest authors under similar circumstances, I have consented to give them to the world.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.

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