Macaulay's essays on Clive and Hastings

Front matter

Classics

ESSAYS ON GL1VE AND HASTINGS

Ml A \j A u L- A Y

Prefatory Note

In the editing of these essays for school use, there is a temptation to give merely encyclopedic information whenever Macaulay makes a historical or a literary allusion. In this edition an attempt is made to avoid this perfunctory method of annotation. The editor aims to present the necessary information, but to present it in such a way that it will in every case make clear the precise allusion that seems puzzling in the writing of the essayist. Throughout the Introduction and the Notes the purpose has been constantly to emphasize the literary reading of two notable essays dealing with epochs in India. It is hoped that no student will feel dismayed by the information contained in the essays and in the annotation, but that on the contrary all readers may relish as does the editor the vigor and brilliance of the distinguished essayist's style. The editor particularly wishes to thank the publishers for their painstaking cooperation in the production of the maps which have been inserted in this edition. Maps are an invaluable aid to any kind of reading of a historical narrative.

Contents

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Prefatory Note v

Introduction ix