HISTORICAL EVENTS,

Relative to the 277 H-4

PROVINCES OF BENGAL,

AND THE

EMPIRE OF INDOSTAN.

WITH

A Seafonable HINT and PERSWASIVE

To the Honourable

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The COURT of DIRECTORS of the
EAST INDIA COMPANY.

AS ALSO

The MYTHOLOGY and COSMOGONY, FASTS
and FESTIVALS of the GENTOOS,
Followers of the SHASTA H.

AND

ADISSERTATION on the METE MPSYCHOSIS,
commonly, though erroneously, called the
PYTHAGOREAN Doctrine.

By J. Z. HOLWELL, Efq;

PART I.

The Second Edition Corrected, with a Supplement.

LONDON:

Printed for T. BECKET and P. A. De Hondt, near
Surry-Street, in the Strand. MDCCLXVI.

Koninkijke Bibliotheek te's Mine.

To the Right Honourable

CHARLES TOWNSEND, Esq;

SIR,

LA

AST year you indulged me. with an opportunity of communicating to you, fome anecdotes (little known) relative to the Mogul Empire, and the ftate of our EaftIndia trade;—in the course of that conference, you manifefted to me fuch profound penetration, and fuch a ready comprehenfion of these subjects, that I could not refift cherishing a defire, to submit to the public my future labours on these interesting matters, under the aufpices of

your