Excerpt from The Early Annals of the English in Bengal: Being the Bengal Public Consultations for the First Half of the Eighteenth Century, Summarised, Extracted, and Edited With Introductions and Illustrative AddendaIN the present volume, and in those which are to follow, I propose to do two things.In the first place, I propose to publish extracts from the records preserved in the India Office which deal with the history of the English at Calcutta during the first half of the eighteenth century. This period is the dark age of British India. Thanks to the researches of Bruce, and still more recently of Sir Henry Yule, a considerable amount of infor mation is available as'to the history of the English in Bengal up to the first years of the eighteenth century. From this point hardly anything is known till we reach the year 1748, at which date Long began his selections from the records, of the Government of Bengal. There is thus a gap in our knowledge of Calcutta history, which needs to be filled up.In the second place, out of the new materials which I shall publish and the old which we already possess, I pro pose to construct the history of the English in Bengal.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.