Patrick Tuck - The East India Company: 1600 - The Mid-Nineteenth Century

Britain and India, 17571813

P. J. Marshall

Volume II

First published 1968

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6 volumes: ISBN 978-0-415-15517-5

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Britain and India, 17571813

P. J. Marshall

Kings College, London

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The reader and the teacher of history might be forgiven for thinking that there are now too many series of historical documents in existence, all claiming to offer light on particular problems and all able to fulfil their claims. At any rate, the general editor of yet another series feels obliged to explain why he is helping one more collection of such volumes into existence.

One purpose of this series is to put at the disposal of the student original materials illustrating historical problems, but this is no longer anything out of the way. A little less usual is the decision to admit every sort of historical question: there are no barriers of time or place or theme. However, what really distinguishes this enterprise is the fact that it combines generous collections of documents with introductory essays long enough to explore the theme widely and deeply. In the doctrine of educationalists, it is the original documents that should be given to the student; in the experience of teachers, documents thrown naked before the untrained mind turn from pearls to paste. The study of history cannot be confined either to the learning up of results without a consideration of the foundations, or to a review of those foundations without the assistance of the expert mind. The task of teaching involves explanation and instruction, and these volumes recognize this possibly unfashionable fact. Beyond that, they enable the writers to say new and important things about their subject matter: to write history of an exploratory kind, which is the only important historical writing there is.

As a result, each volume will be a historical monograph worth the attention which all such monographs deserve, and each volume will stand on its own. While the format of the series is uniform, the contents will vary according to need. Some problems require the reconsideration which makes the known enlighteningly new; others need the attention of original research; yet others will have to enter controversy because the prevailing notions on many historical questions are demonstrably wrong. The authors of this series are free to treat their subject in whatever manner it seems to them to require. They will present some of their evidence for inspection and help the learner to see how history is written, but they will themselves also write history.

G.R.E.

In quotations from contemporary material the original spelling and punctuation have in general been preserved; capitalization has been modernized.

The following abbreviations have been used in the foot notes:

Brit. Mus. British Museum.

IOR. India Office Records.

PP. Parliamentary Papers.

PP. (17311800). Parliamentary Papers Printed by Order of the House of Commons. From the Year 1731 to 1800.

Pant. Debates. Cobbetts Parliamentary Debates, continued from 1812 as The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time.

Parl. Hist. The Parliamentary History of England, from the earliest period to the year 1803.

The place of publication of all works cited is London, unless otherwise indicated.

The author is indebted to Professor C. H. Philips and the Royal Historical Society for permission to print Document no. 9, and to the National Archives of India for permission to print no. 33. The Principal of Lady Margaret Hall has given him most valuable advice both on the selection of documents and on the introduction. He is grateful to Mr J. D. Gurney for several important pieces of information and to Mr John Gooch of Kings College for giving up much time to the checking of texts.