Excerpt from Madras, Mysore, and the South of India: Or a Personal Narrative of a Mission to Those Countries; From MDCCCXX, to MDCCCXXVIII India, by its political and commercial relations to Great Britain, has justly become the object of anxious inquiry and Speculation, both as regards its own interests, and as connected with the interests of our native country. But the solicitude with which India is Viewed by the British public, in reference to its commercial and political importance, must yield, in the mind of the Christian philanthropist, to the deep feeling with which he contemplates the religious condition of so large and fair a portion of the British empire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.