A History of the Mahomedan Power in India During the Last Century A historical survey of India between 1706-1783 containing the reign of seven Mughal emperors . It also makes a critical assessment of the British Government and their policy towards India. Imperfect as this translation was, both as to style and matter, an accident occurred to it, which has deprived the world even of that; for with the exception of a few coples distributed at the time in India, the whole of the edition printed in Calcutta, was lost in the ship in which it was consigned to England.