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HISTORY of INDIA Edited b]> WILLIAMS JACK Professor of Indo-Iranian Languages in Columbia University AY V. WILLIAMS JACKSON, Ph.D., LL.D. VOLUME VIII From the Close of the Seventeenth Century to the Present Time By SIR ALFRED COMYN LYALL, P.C, K.C.B. D. C. L. Author of "Asiatic Studies" and "Life of Warren Hastings" LONDON THE GROLIER SOCIETY PUBLISHERS