[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Storia do Mogor](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci) › [Storia do Mogor (Irvine)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine) › 3.5 # Storia do Mogor 3.5 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 3.5 - **Language:** English ### [3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.3.5) Robert Orme, Historiographer to the East India Company, is, so far as I know, the first writer to make use of Catrou's 'Histoire.' After the publication in 1763 of his great work 'The Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan from the Year 1745,' Orme began to collect materials for a continuation, his plan including a resume of Indian history from the year of Aurangzeb's accession (1658). At his death on January 13, 1801, his design was still incomplete; but we have the result of his forty years' labour in his valuable 'Historical Fragments,' the first edition published in 1782 (octavo), and the second (quarto) in 1805, after his death. As Orme himself says (p. 169), 'We have taken largely from this work' — i.e., Catrou's. Although Orme knew that Manucci had been at Madras in 1691, he had no access to his manuscripts, and, while admitting the elegance of Catrou's style and the interest of his narrations, comments (pp. 168, 169) on the want of chronological arrangement, and the errors in the few dates given. To this subject of chronology we will recur. In Orme's book there are at least eighteen references to Catrou and Manucci combined. - [Previous: 3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.3.4) - [Next: 3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.3.6) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.3.5) · Pramāṇa