This is a calendar (a type of index) of despatches sent and received by officials of the British East India Company in Madras (now Chennai, in India) between 1744 and 1755. It includes information on the contents and recipients of each despatch, as well as some contextual information. This book would be useful for researchers interested in Indian history or British colonial history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Excerpt from Calendar of the Madras Despatches: 1744-1755 The following pages contain an abstract of the despatches exchanged between the East India Company and its principal Council on the Coromandel Coast. The bulk of the documents here calendared occur in the Madras series of records called Despatches to and from England; and certain documents have been included here - although not despatches - partly because they explain matters which the despatches leave untouched, but mainly because they occur in the despatch volumes themselves. The treatment accorded to these enclosures to despatches (for that is what they really are) has been varied according to their nature and importance. Occasional papers of little moment have been relegated to a foot-note at the appropriate point of the covering despatch. Documents of greater interest, such as those relating to the Anglo-French negotiations of 1753, are treated as separate items. Papers of a regularly recurrent nature, such as lists of the investment, lists of recruits, and the like, will be found in tabulated form in the Appendix. The reader will also observe that the present volume includes a number of papers which are not preserved in the Madras Record Office. In order to secure the completeness of the series, Mr. William Foster. C.I.E., has been good enough to supply me with transcripts of the despatches preserved at the India Office but missing here. These are marked India Office transcript at the end of the descriptive heading. 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.