A History of British India From the Earliest English Intercourse to the Present

India’s length from Cashmir to Cape Comorin is about 1,900 English miles; and its breadth from the mouth of the Indus to the mountains to the East of the Baramputra river is considerably more than 1,500 English miles. It is crossed from east to west by a chain of mountains. Guzerat and Bengal are concerned by the natives as being included neither in Hindustan nor the Declcan; they differ greatly from each other, but each is like the part of Hindustan which is nearest to it. Its population is abo