Excerpt from The Asiatic Annual Register: Or a View of the History of Hindustan, and of the Politics, Commerce and Literature of Asia, for the Year 1801 So early in the year as the peculiar na ture and objects of the work required, and as we could oursel'ves have wished; but, we pledge ourselves, in future, to publish punctually in the month of January. 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.