Excerpt from Ralph Darnell

When I wrote "Tara, " it was to illustrate one of the events which had an important effect upon the history of India: the first blow against the dominant power of the Mahomedans, which was struck in 1657.

A hundred years later, on the 23d of June 1757, a blow still more momentous in character fell upon all native powers in India, Mahomedan and Mahratta alike, by the foundation of a Political authority which, heretofore insignificant, rose into immediate action after the battle of Plassey.

In this volume I have endeavoured to follow the events and actions of history, and to invest it with such English interest as was, in many instances, common to the period.

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