Excerpt from Historical Sketches of the South of India, in an Attempt to Trace the History of Mysoor, Vol. 1: From the Origin of the Hindoo Government of That State, to the Extinction of the Mohammedan Dynasty in 1799 The first materials of the following work were collected for purposes connected with my public duties, Without the most remote View to publication. Personal curiosity, and the increas ing interest of the subject, induced me to pursue it, without any definite object, beyond that of rescuing from oblivion, before it should be lost for ever, the information possessed by living cha racters; and the farther examination of written authorities followed as a necessary and almost imperceptible consequence of what had already been done. 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.