A voyage to the East Indies; containing authentic accounts of the Mogul government in general; the viceroyalties of the Decan and Bengal; with their several subordinate dependencies. This two-volume work is the third edition of a book first published as a single volume in 1757; expanded to two volumes in 1766; and republished in 1772. The author; John Henry Grose (active 1750-83); was born in England and went to Bombay (present-day Mumbai) in March 1750; to work as a servant and writer for the British East India Company. The book contains Grose's descriptions of 18th-century India; including his account of the war of 1756-63; in which the British East India Company largely eliminated France as a competitor for control of India and established the basis for British rule that was to last until the middle of the 20th century.