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About The Book: The greater number of the Tracts which constitute this volume, were written during the earlier part of a residence of about twenty years in India: some of them have been published, but without my knowledge, and without receiving the necessary correction; others, which had been laid before the Government of Fort St. George and forwarded to the Honourable the Court of Directors, were deposited in their library; the rest, as some journals, letters, and translations, had been communicated to private friends only: none were thought by me of sufficient importance to lay before the world. Owing to circumstances, which it is immaterial to state, I have riot been able to arrange the Tracts either according to the succession in which they were written, or to the connexion of their subjects.