The English Factories in India, 1618-1669: A Calendar of Documents in the India Office, British Museum and Public Record Office. E-book. Formato PDF William Foster   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The present volume covers only three years, as compared with the previous average of four; but it contains the same number of documents as the last instalment, viz. 320, and some of these are so important that it has been found necessary to deal with them at considerable length. Naturally, the chief source has been the India Office collections - particularly the Original Correspondence series, the Sural Factory Records, and the Marine Records. The Public Record Office has contributed only three documents; and the MSS. Department of the British Museum nineteen. No Indian Record Office has any for this period.As the preceding volumes contain many references to what has hitherto been known as the East Indies series at the Public Record Office, it may be well to note that that series has recently been renamed Colonial Office 77.Thirteen of the letters here dealt with have already been summarized in Mr. W. N. Sainsbury's Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, East Indies and Persia, 1630-34. With that volume Mr. Sainsbury's admirable series came to an end; and consequently in the present instalment we break ground which has been practically untouched by previous workers. Moreover, the period was a particularly eventful one.

The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul, 1615-1619: As Narrated in His Journal and Correspondence. E-book. Formato PDF William Foster   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The mission of Sir Thomas Roe to the court of jahangir was not only a remarkable episode in the life of a remark able man, but an event of high importance in the history both of England and of India; for the footing which was then obtained, largely through his energy and wisdom, by the despised traders from the West, proved to be but the first step in a march of conquest which has only of late years reached its limits, and the scarlet liveries which escorted the ambassador through Rajputana were prophetic of a time when a descendant of King james should rule over an Indian empire vaster and infinitely more prosperous than ever owned the sway of a Mogul.

Early Travels in India, 1583-1619. E-book. Formato PDF William Foster   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The following pages contain the narratives of seven English men who travelled in Northern and Western India during the reigns of the Emperors Akbar and Jahangir. Though these do not by any means exhaust the list of English visitors of that period who have left us records of their experiences, they include practically all those of real importance, with the exception of Sir Thomas Roe, whose lengthy account of his embassy is already procurable in a modern edition.