Excerpt from The History of the British Empire in India, Vol. 2 of 4 Company should be permitted to purchase the Zemindarship of thirty-seven towns, in the same manner as they had been authorised to purchase Calcutta, Sattanutty, and Govindpore Never theless another year elapsed before the hostility of the vizier could be overcome, which yielded at last to an influence universally recognized in the easth namely, open and shameless bribery. 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.