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Excerpt from British Beginnings in Western India 1579-1657: An Account of the Early Days of the British Factory of Surat My thanks are due to the Superintendent, Archaeological Survey, Western Circle, and to Mr. G. L. Steele, for the photographs of Surat which illustrate this book. The Committee of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona, has permitted me to reproduce some of the matter in Chapter III, originally contributed to the Bhandarkar Commemoration Volume(1917). The late Dr. Vincent A. Smith not only read through the manuscript of this essay, but was good enough to revise the proofs, and to make many valuable corrections and suggestions. It was one of the last tasks of his life, and the author wishes to record his gratitude for the infinite pains which Mr. Smith took to help students of Indian history, and the ungrudging manner in which he devoted his time and energies to the service of others. 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.