INDEX.

Adoption, question of, [175;]
present aspect, [177]

Afghanistan, Elphinstone's mission, [103;]
Russian advances, [143;]
first Afghan war, [146;]
insurrection at Cabul, [149;]
British losses in the Khyber Pass, [150;]
end of war, [152;]
vulnerable frontier, [186;]
death of Dost Mohammed Khan, [290;]
fratricidal war, [291;]
Shere Ali Khan, ib.;
second Afghan war under Lord Lytton, [296]

Agnew, Mr. Vans, murdered at Multan, [161]

Agra, captured by General Lake, [95;]
presidency formed, [128;]
water way, [171;]
isolation during the sepoy mutinies, [215,] [231]

Ajmere, acquired by the British, [120]

Akalis, Sikh fanatics, [156,] [157]

Akbar Khan, son of Dost Mohammed, heads revolt at Cabul, [149;]
murders Sir William Macnaghten, [150]

Alam, Shah, Padishah, seeks British protection, [95]

Alexander the Great, defeat of Porus, [163;]
his invasion of India, [225]

Alighur, fortress of, captured by Lake, [94]

Aliwal, battle of, [159]

Allahabad, at the junction of the Jumna and Ganges, [171;]
position during the sepoy revolt, [215,] [217,] [220,] [238;]
mutiny and massacre, [241;]
fortress besieged, ib.;
relieved by General Neill, [242]

Amherst, Lord, Governor-General, [120;]
first Burmese war, [121;]
Bhurtpore war, [122]

Amir Khan, an Afghan Pindhari, [105;]
founds principality of Tonk, [112,] [113;]
surrenders to the British, [115]

Amritsar, city of, [155]

Andaman Islands, [294]

Anderson, Lieut., murdered at Multan, [161]

Anson, General, at Simla, [216;]
movements at the revolt of Delhi, [216]-[271;]
his death, ib.

Appa Sahib, defeated by the British, [117;]
flight from Nagpore, ib.;
succeeded by his grandson, ib.

Arakan, annexed by the British government, [122,] [169]

Arcot, captured by Clive, [34;]
suppresses mutiny at Vellore, [100]

Arrah, besieged by rebels, [266;]
relieved by Major Eyre, [267]

Asia, Central and Northern, the cradle of India, [142;]
rise of Nadir Shah, [143;]
rise of British power in, [145]

Asiatics of India, better phrase than "native," [186;]
characteristic craft, [240;]
officials, [300]

Asiatic rulers, acknowledge British supremacy, [301;]
British political officers in India, [302]

Assam, overrun by Burmese, [121;]
acquired by the British, [122;]
tea cultivation, [123]

Assaye, battle of, [94]

Attock, fortress of, captured by Dost Mohammed Khan, [163]

Auckland, Lord, Governor-General of India, [141;]
declares war against Dost Mohammed Khan, [145;]
sends expedition against Cabul, [146]

Aurangzeb, the Great Mogul, [21;]
stops supply of saltpetre to the British at the bidding of Turkey, [25;]
his death, [31;]
persecutes the Sikhs, [155;]
detested by the Sikhs, [222]

Ava, see Burma

Baird, Sir David, commands storming party at Seringapatam, [86]

Bala Hissar, fortress of, [148]

Barlow, Sir George, provisional Governor-General, [98;]
political half measures, [99;]
sacrifices revenue in Bundelkund, [101;]
annuls protective treaties, [104]

Barnard, Sir Henry, commander-in-chief in 1857, advances against Delhi, [218;]
his death, [230]

Baroda, Gaekwar of, [112]

Barrackpore, cantonment and park, near Calcutta, [192];
story of the Lascar and Brahman, [194;]
sepoy agitation, [196;]
incendiarism, [197;]
outbreak of Mungal Pandy, [201;]
disbandment of 19th Native Infantry, [202;]
of the 34th Native Infantry, [205]

Barwell, Mr., member of the Council of Warren Hastings, [65]

Bassein, efforts of the British at Bombay to acquire from the Mahrattas, [72;]
treaty of 1802 concluded with the Peishwa, [92,] [119] note

Bayley, Sir Edward Clive, Home Secretary to Sir John Lawrence, his knowledge of Indian history, [288]

Behar, a province of Bengal, [42]-[44,] [127,] [129;]
mutinies at Patna, Dinapore, and Arrah, [266]

Benares, ceded to the British, [73;]
turbulent population, [235;]
triumph of Mr. Gubbins, [236;]
mutiny of sepoys, [237]

Bengal, early English trade, [25;]
British supervisors, [55;]
terrible famine, ib.;
British administration, [58;]
zemindari system of land revenue, ib.;
no village communities, [128;]
people, [190]

Bengal army, see Sepoys

Bentinck, Lord William, recalled from Madras, [101;]
Governor-General, [123;]
wise and just administration, ib.;
civil and judicial reforms, [126;]
appoints Asiatic officials, [127;]
settles land revenue in the North-West Provinces, [131,] [167;]
popularity, [140;]
appoints Asiatic deputy collectors, [166]

Berhampore, sepoys at, [192;]
mutiny against greased cartridges, [198]

Berar, British relations with, [72;]
vacillations of the Raja, [95;] see Nagpore

Bhotan, beyond Northern India, expedition to, [293]

Bhurtpore, Jhat Raja of, pays a heavy fine to the British, [98;]
destruction of the fortress, [122]

Bithoor, palace of Nana Sahib, [244;]
destroyed by Havelock, [259]

Bombay, old fortress and town, [24;]
interference in Mahratta affairs, [73;]
bravery of sepoys, [118;]
acquires the territories of the Peishwa, [134;]
stagnation, [139;]
want of roads, [172;]
state education, [278;]
cotton speculations, [287;]
failure of Bank, ib.

Brahmans, hereditary schoolmasters, astrologers, and priests, [129;]
survival of, [131;]
position in the Bengal army, [188,] [191]

Britain, Great, an Asiatic power, [140,] [180,] [276]

Buller, Sir Arthur, his opposition in legislative council, [281]

Bundelkund, lawless condition of, [101;]
chiefs of, defy the British, ib.;
peace restored, [102;]
condition, [255,] [289] note

Burma, aggressive demands of the officials, [120;]
invade British territory, [121;]
end of first war, [122;]
second war, [168]

Burnes, Sir Alexander, at Cabul, [148;]
environed by Afghan mob, [149;]
murdered, ib.

Buxar, battle of, [52]

Cabul, see Afghanistan

Cachar, under British rule, [122;]
tea cultivation, [123]

Calcutta, founded, [28;]
captured by the Nawab of Bengal, [35;]
Black Hole tragedy, [38;]
recaptured, [42;]
auction sales of lands, [60;]
British garrison of, [186,] [192]

Campbell, Sir Archibald, at Rangoon, [121]

Campbell, Sir Colin, commander-in-chief, Bengal army, [271;]
sets out for Lucknow, ib.;
reaches Residency, ib.;
brings away besieged, ib.

Canara, landholders and land revenue of, [133]

Canning, Lord, Governor-General, [181;]
war with Persia, ib.;
settlement with the Delhi family, [182;]
uneasy about Oudh, ib.;
alarm of the sepoys at Barrackpore, [192;]
mutiny at Berhampore, [200;]
outbreak at Barrackpore, [201;]
disaffection in Oudh, [202;]
disbandments at Barrackpore, [202,] [205;]
mutiny at Meerut, [206,] [208;]
orders General Anson to Delhi, [217;]
refuses to abandon Peshawar, [229;]
offends non-official Europeans at Calcutta, [279;]
turns the executive council of India into a cabinet, [281;]
departure and death, [285]

Carnatic in Southern India, conquered by Aurangzeb, [22;]
war between Great Britain and France, [32;]
interference of the Nawab, ib.;
rival Nawabs, [33;]
invasions of Hyder, [74;]
acquired by Lord Wellesley and incorporated with the Madras Presidency, [87,] [88]

Cashmere, conquered by Runjeet Singh, [103;]
sold by Lord Hardinge to Golab Singh, [160;]
relations with the British government, [289]

Caste in Bengal army, [191;]
its disadvantages, ib.

Cavagnari, Sir Louis, murdered at Cabul, [297]

Cawnpore on the Ganges, British cantonment in Lord Lake's time, [94;]
position, [171,] [175;]
outbreak of the sepoy mutinies, [233;]
story of Cawnpore, [243;]
peril of General Wheeler, [244;]
palace of Nana Sahib at Bithoor, [245;]
suspense, [248;]
mutiny, [251;]
treachery of Nana Sahib, [252;]
revolting cruelties, ib.;
massacre, [254;]
advance of Havelock, [256;]
story of the "well," [258;]
defeat of Wyndham, [272;]
victory of Sir Colin Campbell, ib.

Central India, feudatory Asiatic states and chiefships, [289] note

Central Provinces, under Home Office, [297]

Chamberlain, Neville, his flying column in the Punjab, [224;]
services at the siege of Delhi, [227,] [230]

Charnock, Job, imprisoned and scourged by the Nawab of Bengal, [25;]
flies to Madras, [27;]
founds Calcutta, [28]

Charters, see East India Company

Child, Sir Joseph, frames a municipal corporation for Madras, [16;]
makes war on the Great Mogul, [25;]
plans the protection of British trade in India by three great fortresses, [26;]
his humiliation, [27]

Chillianwalla, battle of, [163,] [164]

China, East India Company's trade with, [138]

Chout, paid by the Mogul to the Mahrattas, [28;]
plunder of Bengal and the Carnatic for non-payment, [32;]
Mahratta demands on the Nizam, [82;]
demanded by Holkar, [96]

Clavering, General, appointed member of council, [66;]
insolence to Warren Hastings and Elijah Impey, [67,] [68]

Cleveland, Augustus, humanises the Sonthals, [78]

Clive, Robert, saves British interests in India by the capture of Arcot, [34;]
expedition to Calcutta after the Black Hole disaster, [40;]
victory at Plassy, [42;]
instals a new Nawab, [43;]
relieves the Mogul Prince Imperial, [45;]
refuses the post of Dewan to the Great Mogul, ib.;
offers it to William Pitt, [46;]
Governor of British settlements in Bengal, [53;]
accepts the Dewani, [54;]
returns to England, [55;]
inferior authority to that of Warren Hastings, [56]

Code, Penal, [281]

Colvin, Mr. John, besieged in fortress of Agra, [220,] [231] note

Combermere, Lord, captures fortress of Bhurtpore, [122]

Company, see East India

Cornwallis, Lord, appointed Governor-General, [78;]
proclaims the perpetual settlement, [79;]
judicial reforms, ib.;
war against Tippu, [80;]
Governor-General a second time, [98;]
dies, ib.

Councils, executive and legislative, see Government

Courts, see Judicature

Currie, Sir Frederic, Resident at Lahore, [161]

Dalhousie, Lord Governor-General, [161;]
enters on the second Sikh war, [163;]
annexes the Punjab, [164;]
introduces British administration, [166;]
second Burmese war, [168;]
annexation of Pegu, [169;]
progressive policy, [170;]
public works, ib.;
roads, [171;]
railways, [173;]
telegraphs, [174;]
Ganges canal, ib.;
annexation policy, [175;]
question of adoption, [176;]
annexation of Jhansi and Oudh, [177;]
opens the legislative council of India, [179;]
leaves India, [180]

Deccan, definition of the term, [2;]
Mohammedan Sultans of Golconda, [22;]
bad roads, [172]

Delhi, capital of the Mogul empire, [44;]
flight of the Prince Imperial to Calcutta, ib.;
proposed British expedition stopped by Clive, [53;]
defended by Ochterlony against Holkar, [95;]
occupied and plundered by Nadir Shah, [144;]
water-way to Calcutta, [173;]
family of the last of the Moguls, [182;]
occupied by the rebel sepoys from Meerut, [208;]
the city and its surroundings, [210;]
massacre of Europeans, [213;]
explosion of the magazine, [214;]
rebel successes, [216;]
avenged, [219;]
the siege, [221;]
the capture, [230;]
imperial assemblage at, [295]

Denison, Sir William, Provisional Governor-General, [286;]
returns to Madras, ib.

Dharna, sitting in, [81;]
abolished, ib.

Dhuleep Singh, nominal sovereign of the Punjab, [157]

Dinapore, European regiment at, [186;]
mutiny at, [266]

Dost Mohammed Khan, ruler of Afghanistan, [145;]
defeated by the British, [146;]
a prisoner at Calcutta, [147;]
returns to Cabul, [152;]
recovers Peshawar during second Sikh war, [162,] [163;]
helped by the British in the Persian war, [181;]
death, [290;]
wars between his sons, [291]

Dravidian races, [142]

Dumdum arsenal, near Calcutta, [186;]
musketry school at, [192]

Dupleix, French Governor of Pondicherry, [32;]
his brilliant success, [33;]
appointed Nawab of the Carnatic, ib.;
ruin of his schemes by Clive, [34;]
return to France, ib.;
disgrace and death of, ib.

Durand, Sir H., Foreign Secretary, [288;]
relations with Sir John Lawrence, [289;]
proposed restoration of Mysore, [292]

Dutch, settlements of, [9]

East India Company, charter and factories, [1;]
English house at Surat, [4;]
territory and fortress at Madras, [7;]
Fort St. George, [12;]
charter from James II. for municipal corporation, [16;]
settlement at Bombay, [24;]
at Hughly, [25;]
war against the Great Mogul, [26;]
submission, [27;]
war with France, [32;]
saved by Robert Clive, [34;]
Black Hole tragedy, [35;]
Plassy, [42;]
exasperated by their civil servants at Calcutta, [53;]
accepts the office of Dewan for Bengal, Behar, and Orissa, [54;]
orders Warren Hastings to assume the direct administration, [56;]
false position of the Company in Bengal, [69;]
first war against the Mahrattas, [71;]
Fox's hostile India bill, [75;]
Pitt's Board of Control, [76;]
trial of Warren Hastings, [77;]
wars of Lord Wellesley, [84;]
conquest of Mysore, [86;]
annexation of the Carnatic, [88;]
subsidiary alliances, [89;]
second Mahratta war, [94;]
recall of Lord Wellesley from Bengal, [98;]
recall of Lord William Bentinck from Madras, [101;]
war against Nipal, [108;]
Pindhari and Mahratta wars, [110;]
paramount power in India, [120;]
first Burmese war, ib.;
administration of Lord William Bentinck, [123;]
stages in the relations between the Company and the Crown, [135;]
old East India House, [136;]
patronage under Pitt's bill, [137;]
charters of 1813 and 1833 granted by Parliament, [138;]
abolition of licences, ib.; constitutional changes, [139;]
appointment of Lord Macaulay, ib.;
charter of 1833, its evil results, ib.;
an Asiatic power, [141;]
first Sikh war, [154;]
second Sikh war, [161;]
acquisition of the Punjab, [165;]
second Burmese war, [168;]
splendid administration of Lord Dalhousie, [170;]
question of adoption, [175;]
annexation of Oudh, [177;]
end of charter of 1833, [178;]
competitive examinations for the Indian civil and new legislative council of India, [179;]
sepoy revolt, [185,] [232;]
end of the East India Company, [275]

Edinburgh, Duke of, visit to India, [295]

Education in India, [277;]
state system, [278;]
Bible teaching, [279]

Edwardes, Herbert, defeats rebels at Multan, [161,] [162;]
opposes withdrawal from Peshawar, [229]

Elgin, Lord, sends British regiments to Lord Canning, [233;]
Viceroy and Governor-General, [286]

Ellenborough, Lord, Governor-General, [151;]
hears news of Khyber Pass disaster, ib.;
interferes in Gwalior, [152;]
recalled, [154;]
proposes removal of the Delhi family, [182]

Elphinstone, Mountstuart, his mission to Cabul, [103;]
Resident at Poona, [112;]
negotiations with the Mahratta Peishwa, [113;]
destruction of his library, [116;]
Governor of Bombay, [134;]
conservatism in India, [299;]
its failure, [300]

Empress of India, proclamation of, [295]

Ferozshahar, battle of, [158,] [159]

Foreign Office, Indian, relations with Asiatic states, [289;]
misleading term, [290] note

Fort St. George, see Madras

Fort William, see Calcutta

Francis, Mr. Philip, member of Bengal Council, reputed author of the Letters of Junius, [66;]
jealous hatred of Warren Hastings, ib.;
bitter charges against Hastings and Impey, [67,] [68;]
denounces appointment of Impey to the Sudder, [70;]
fights a duel and returns to England, [75]

Frere, Sir Bartle, Governor of Bombay, [286;]
his career, [287]

Frontier tribes on the north-west, [225]

Gaekwar of Baroda, [112,] [289] note

Ganges canal, [174]

Ganges, river, [171,] [175]

George III., his hostility to Fox's India Bill, [137;]
accepts presents from Warren Hastings, [296]

Ghorka, conquest of Nipal, [106;]
war against British government, [108]-[110]

Gillespie, Colonel, commands garrison at Arcot, [100;]
suppresses mutiny at Vellore, [101]

Goa, the capital of Portuguese India, [2]

Goddard, Colonel, leads an expedition from Calcutta to Bombay against Mahratta country, [73]

Godwin, General, commands expedition to Burma, [169]

Golab Singh buys Cashmere from Lord Hardinge, [160]

Goojerat, battle of, [164]

Gough, Sir Hugh, commands army in Gwalior, [153;]
his victory at Maharajpore, [154;]
battles at Moodki and Ferozshahar, [158;]
at Sobraon, [159;]
Chillianwalla, [163;]
Goojerat, [164]

Government, old merchant rule in Madras, [5,] [8,] [12;]
municipal experiments, [14,] [16;]
Nawab rule in Bengal, [43;]
offer of the Dewani, [45;]
Great Mogul installed in British factory at Patna, [48;]
collision between the British and the Nawab in Bengal, [49;]
Clive's double government, [54;]
Warren Hastings a sovereign ruler, [56;]
British zemindar at Calcutta, [59;]
appointment of British collectors, [61;]
members of council at Calcutta appointed by Parliament, [65;]
quarrels, [66;]
Governor-General in Council empowered by parliament to make laws, [69;]
changes under the charter of 1833, [135;]
executive council remodelled by Lord Canning, [280;]
legislative councils of 1854 and 1861-6, [179,] [284;]
relations of legislative and executive, [293;]
British India a school for Asiatics, [297]

Govind, Guru, [155;]
founder of the Sikh Khalsa, [156]

Graves, Brigadier, commands station at Delhi, [209,] [210;]
preparations to resist rebel sepoys from Meerut, [211;]
escapes to Flagstaff Tower, [213]

Gubbins, Mr. Frederic, his municipal reforms at Benares, [235,] [236]

Gwalior, fortress of, captured, [73;]
interference and war by Lord Ellenborough, [152]

Gwalior contingent formed, [154;]
mutiny of, [228,] [229;]
victory of, at Cawnpore, [272]

Hands, Right and Left, Hindu antagonism in Southern India, [10,] [11;]
see also [39] note

Hardinge, Lord, Governor-General, [154;]
commands the army at Moodki, [158;]
at Sobraon, [159;]
settles the government of the Punjab under a regency, [160;]
returns to England, [161]

Harris, General, commands British army against Mysore, [86]

Hastings, Warren, appointed Governor of Bengal, [56;]
virtually sovereign of Bengal, Behar, and Orissa, ib.;
previous career, [57;]
introduces British administration, [58;]
dealings with the zemindars and land revenue, [59,] [61;]
judicial administration, 62 creates the Sudder Court, [64;]
surprised by the arrival of three new members of council, and the creation of the Supreme Court, [65;]
appointed Governor-General, ib.;
quarrel with Philip Francis, [66;]
trial and execution of Nundcomar, [67;]
inaction, ib.;
collision between the Supreme Court and the Sudder, [68;]
points in dispute, [69;]
settled by parliament, ib.;
alleged corruption of Elijah Impey, [70;]
war with the Mahrattas, [71;]
plottings of three Asiatic powers, [73;]
Hyder invades the Carnatic, [74;]
interference of parliament, [75;]
India bills of Fox and Pitt, ib.;
returns to England, [76;]
trial in Westminster Hall, ib.;
case of the Oudh Begums, ib.;
services of Hastings, [77,] [78;]
presents to George III., [296]

Hastings, Marquis of, Governor-General of India, [107;]
war against Nipal, [108;]
converted from non-intervention to imperialism, [110;]
suppresses Pindhari raids and Mahratta disaffection, [111;]
humiliation of Sindia, [113;]
submission of Amir Khan of Tonk, [114;]
treachery, defeat, and flight of the Peishwa, [115;]
dealings with Nagpore, [116;]
defeat of Holkar, [117;]
capture and conquest of the Peishwa, [118,] [119;]
renewal of protective treaties in Rajputana, [120]

Havelock, General, his career in India, [256;]
advance on Cawnpore during the sepoy mutinies, ib.;
hangs a deputy collector, [258;]
enters Cawnpore after the massacre, ib.;
advances towards Lucknow, [259;]
retreats, [266;]
second advance with Outram, [268;]
relief of the garrison, [269;]
death, [272]

Herat, besieged by Persia, [145;]
defended by Eldred Pottinger, [151;]
second siege by Persia, [181]

Hindus, protected against European soldiers at Madras, [14;]
rebel against the house tax, [15;]
municipality in the 17th century, [16;]
abolition of Suttee, [123;]
overawed by Thugs, [125;]
village communities in the
North-West Provinces, [128;]
in the Madras Presidency, [131;]
ancient colonisation, ib.;
ancient migrations from Central and Northern Asia, [142;]
accept Sikh religion in the Punjab, [155;]
absence of roads in Hindu kingdoms, [172;]
belief in adoption but reluctant to adopt, [175;]
caste system, [188,] [191;]
worship of the cow and horror of beef, [195;]
forced conversions to Islam, [196;]
hostility of the Brahmans at Benares, stamped out by Mr. Gubbins, [235;]
Hindu culture, [298;]
child marriages, ib.;
temper, ib.;
social despotism, [299;]
failure of hereditary officials, [300;]
successful training, ib.

Holkar, Jaswant Rao, the bandit, [92;]
drives the Peishwa from Poona, ib.;
occupies Indore territory, [93;]
relations with the British, [95;]
defiance, [96;]
campaign of Lord Lake, ib.;
Monson's disastrous retreat, [97;]
joined by Sindia, etc., ib.;
flies to the Punjab, [99;]
confined as a madman, ib.;
dies of cherry brandy, [111;]
see Indore

Holkar, see Indore

Holwell, Mr., elected Governor of Calcutta, during the siege, [38;]
sells Calcutta lands by auction, [60]

Hughly, old Portuguese fortress at, [19;]
demolished in punishment for slave dealing, [20;]
British factory at, [25;]
Mogul oppressions, ib.;
British retreat to Madras, [27]

Hyder Ali, of Mysore, desolates the Carnatic, [74]

Hyderabad, disbandment of French battalions, [85;]
subsidiary force at, [113]

Impey, Sir Elijah, first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at Calcutta, [65;]
charges against, [70]

Indore, revolt of the army of Holkar, [115;]
defeated at Mehidpore, [117;]
subsidiary alliance, [118;]
outbreak during the mutinies, [272;]
political relations, [289] note

Java, wrested from the Dutch, [104;]
restored to Holland, ib.

Jeypore, Raja of, fights for princess of Oodeypore, [105;]
asks British government to arbitrate, [106]

Jhansi, massacre at, [176,] [255]

Jodhpore, Raja of, contends for princess of Oodeypore, [105;]
asks British to arbitrate, [106]

Judicature, justices of the Choultry at Madras, [13;]
mayor's court, [31;]
British zemindar at Calcutta, [59;]
magistrates and judges, [62;]
courts of circuit and appeal, [63;]
chief court or Sudder, [64;]
patriarchal system, ib.;
supreme court of barrister judges, [65;]
collisions, [67,] [68;]
judicial reforms of Lord Cornwallis, [79;]
of Lord William Bentinck, [126;]
Asiatic judges, [127;]
amalgamation of Supreme Court and Sudder in the existing High Courts, [284;]
Asiatic judges and magistrates, [285;]
proposed changes, [300]

Julinder, mutiny at, [227]

Kali, goddess, worshipped by the Thugs, [124;]
Calcutta a corruption of Kali-Ghat, [125] note

Keane, Sir John, captures fortress of Ghazni, [146;]
created Baron of Ghazni, [147]

Khalsas, the Sikh, [155;]
army of, [156;]
sent to plunder India, [158;]
defeated at Sobraon, [159;]
broken up, [164]

Khyber Pass, British disaster in, [151;]
faces Peshawar, [225]

Korygaum, glorious action of sepoys, [118]

Kumaon, ceded to the British by Nipal, [109]

Lacouperie, Professor Terrien de, on the right and left hand castes, [39] note

Lahore, Council of Regency at, [161;]
sepoy mutinies at, [223,] [224;]
European strength, [243]

Lake, General, commander-in-chief of the Bengal army, [94;]
his campaign in Hindustan, [94,] [95;]
attacks Holkar, [96;]
fails to reduce Bhurtpore, [97,] [98]

Lawrence, Sir Henry, Resident at Lahore after first Sikh war, [161,] [164;]
chief commissioner of Oudh, [202;]
suppresses a mutiny at Lucknow, [216;]
holds a public durbar for rewarding sepoys, [259;]
preparations for the defence of Lucknow, [260;]
wounded at Chinhut, [261;]
dies, [265]

Lawrence, John, chief commissioner of the Punjab, [165;]
patriarchal rule, [166;]
land settlement, [167;]
telegram to General Anson, [217;]
executions at Peshawar, [226;]
sends Punjab "Guides" to Delhi, ib.;
proposes to withdraw from Peshawar, [228;]
overruled by Lord Canning, [229;]
disarms all Bengal sepoys in the Punjab, ib.;
created a baronet and afterwards a peer, [286] note;
Viceroy and Governor-General, [286;]
yearly migrations to Simla, [288;]
relations with Sir Henry Durand, [289;]
leaves India, [293;]
burial in Westminster Abbey, [294]

Legislation, no code of laws, [13;]
powers of, granted to the Governor-General in Council, [69;]
legislative council created in 1833 under the charter, [139;]
new legislative council of 1854 under Lord Dalhousie, [179;]
new Penal Code, [180;]
new legislative council of 1861-2, [284;]
relations of cabinet and council, [293;]
proposed changes, [301]

Lucknow, capital of Oudh, description of, [203;]
the British Residency, ib.;
first mutiny suppressed by Sir Henry Lawrence, ib.;
further durbar for rewarding loyal sepoys, [259;]
general mutiny, [261;]
hostility of the city, [263;]
disaster at Chinhut, ib.;
British Residency besieged by mutineers and rebels, [264;]
death of Sir Henry Lawrence, [265;]
anarchy in the city, ib.;
retreat of Havelock, [266;]
desperate defence, [267;]
advance of Havelock and Outram, [268;]
triumphant entry, [269;]
final relief of Sir Colin Campbell, [271]

Lumsden, Sir Peter, his mission to Candahar, [181]

Lytton, Lord, Viceroy, [295;]
proclaims Her Majesty as Empress of India, [295;]
the second Afghan war, [296]

Macaulay (Mr., afterwards Lord) appointed legal member of the Council of India, [139;]
drafts the Penal Code, [180]

Macnaghten, Sir William, British minister at Cabul, [146,] [147;]
his difficulties, [148;]
murdered by Akbar Khan, [149,] [150]

Macrae, Mr., Governor of Madras, in the olden time, [31]

Madras, foundation of fortress, [7;]
growth of Fort St. George and Black Town, [8;]
wars of the Right and Left Hands, [10;]
first Hindu town under British rule, [13;]
Asiatic revolt against European taxation, [14,] [15;]
corporation founded, [16;]
trade in slaves, [18;]
abolished and revived, [21,] [22;]
flourishing private trade, [23;]
Governors Pitt and Macrae, [31;]
Madras captured by the French, [32;]
restored, [33;]
village communities of Southern India, [131;]
creation of zemindars, [132;]
establishment of ryotwari, [134]

Maharajpore, battle of, [154]

Mahrattas, raids on the Mogul empire quieted by the payment of "chout," or black-mail, [28;]
origin of Mahratta power, [71;]
rise of the Peishwa and his feudatories—Sindia, Holkar, and the Gaekwar, [72;]
first British war against the Mahrattas, [73;]
refuse the British alliance, [89;]
rise of Sindia, [92;]
acceptance of British suzerainty by the Peishwa, ib.;
campaigns of Wellesley and Lake, [94,] [95;]
Holkar's defiance and successes, [97;]
non-intervention, [99;]
disaffection, [111;]
hostility, [115;]
final establishment of British supremacy, [116,] [119;]
see also Sindia and Holkar

Malcolm, Sir John, sent on missions to Persia, [91,] [103;]
negotiations with the Mahrattas, [112,] [113;]
defeats Holkar, [117;]
captures the Peishwa, [119]

Mayo, Lord, Viceroy and Governor-General, [294;]
his tragic death, ib.

Meerut, sepoy mutinies, [206]-[212]

Mehidpore, battle of, [117]

Metcalfe, Charles, his mission to Runjeet Singh at Lahore, [102;]
Governor-General, [140]

Minto, Lord, Governor-General, [101]

Mogul, empire in India, [2;]
his vengeance on the Portuguese at Hughly, [20;]
conquers the Deccan, [21;]
breaking up, [31;]
enthronement of a Great Mogul in the British factory at Patna, [48;]
settlement of Lord Clive, [54;]
flight to Delhi with the Mahrattas, [57;]
a pensioner of the British government, [95;]
makes common cause with the rebel sepoys, [209,] [216;]
banishment to Rangoon, [231] note

Mohammedans, proportion of, in the Bengal sepoy army, [191;]
conversion of Hindus by force, [196,] [210;]
revolt of Delhi, fanatics preaching rebellion, [220;]
capture of Delhi, [231]

Moira, Lord, Governor-General, [110;]
see Hastings, Marquis of

Monro, Sir Hector, victory at Buxar, [52;]
takes possession of Oudh, [52]

Monson, Colonel, disastrous retreat from Holkar, [97,] [98]

Moodki, battle of, [158]

Mornington, Lord, see Wellesley, Marquis of

Mulraj, Sikh governor of Multan, his revolt, [161;]
murder of two British officers, ib.;
surrenders, [164]

Munro, Thomas, his career, [133,] [134;]
his conservatism, [299]

Munsifs, or civil judges, appointed, [80]

Mutinies, see Sepoy

Mysore, Raja, restored to the throne of Mysore, [87]

Mysore, conquest of, by the British army, [86;]
restoration of a Hindu Raja, [87;]
Mohammedan mutiny at Vellore, [100,] [188;]
brought under British rule, [221;]
restored to Hindu rule, [292]

Nadir, Shah, checkmates Russia, [143;]
invades India, [144;]
an Asiatic Napoleon, ib.

Nagpore, 111;
plottings against the British government, [116;]
annexed by Lord Dalhousie, [176]

Nana Sahib, a protégé of the ex-Peishwa of the Mahrattas, [245;]
his preposterous claims against the British government, ib.;
pertinacity and cunning, [246;]
pretended loyalty at Cawnpore, [249;]
deludes the British, [250;]
unpopularity with the Bengal sepoys, ib.;
joins the sepoy mutineers, [251;]
parleying and perfidy, [253;]
massacre of Europeans, [254;]
his triumph, ib.;
his terrors, [255;]
his army defeated by Havelock, [257;]
massacre of women and children, [258;]
flight into Oudh, ib.

Nanuk Guru, founder of the Sikh religion, [154;]
his teaching, [155]

Napier, Sir Charles, defeats Amirs of Sind, [152;]
supersedes Lord Gough, [164]

Natives, see Asiatic

Neill, Colonel, his advance towards Allahabad and Cawnpore, [234;]
delayed at Benares, [238;]
at Allahabad, ib.;
restores order, [242;]
joined by Havelock, [256]

Newars, Buddhist people of Nipal, [106]

Nicholson, John, the sainted warrior, [227;]
worshipped by the Sikhs, ib.;
crushes the rebel sepoy brigade from Sealkote, [229;]
mortally wounded at Delhi, [231]

Nipal, Ghorka conquest of, [106;]
aggressions on British territory, [107;]
war, [108;]
peace, [110]

Nizam of the Deccan, [33,] [82;]
disbandment of his French battalions, [83;]
accepts subsidiary alliance with the British government, [89;]
political relations, [290] note

Non-intervention, policy of, [82;]
sad results, [99;]
bad effects in Rajputana, [106;]
in the Punjab, [158]

Northbrook, Lord, Viceroy and Governor-General, [295]

North-West Provinces, land settlement of, [167;]
revolt and suppression, [231]

Nott, General, at Candahar, [146,] [151;]
advances on Cabul, [152]

Nundcomar, his charges against Warren Hastings, [67;]
arrested on charge of forgery, ib.;
trial and execution, ib.

Ochterlony, Colonel, defends Delhi from Holkar, [97;]
services in the war against Nipal, [109;]
operations against Bhurtpore, [216]

Orissa, a province of Bengal, [44,] [127;]
village communities, [129]

Oudh, old aggressions on Bengal, [44,] [47;]
settlement of Lord Clive with the Nawab Vizier, [53;]
case of the Begums, [76;]
acquisitions of Lord Wellesley, [91;]
annexation by Lord Dalhousie, [177,] [178;]
land settlement, [182;]
disaffection of the talukdars, [183;]
discontent of sepoys, [184,] [190,] [202;]
Sir Henry Lawrence, chief commissioner, [203;]
disaffection, [220;]
mutiny and rebellion, [259,] [262;]
peace restored, [272;]
causes of revolt, [273;]
settlement of Lord Lawrence with the talukdars, [292]

Outram, Sir James, his mission to the Persian Gulf, [181;]
joins Havelock, [269;]
chief commissioner of Oudh, [270]

Parliament, interference in India, [75,] [135;]
Charters of 1813 and 1833;
opening out trade, etc., [138;]
creates the Legislative Council of India, and introduces competitive examinations, [178;]
transfers India from the Company to the Crown, [275;]
Council Act of 1861, [284]

Patna, massacre at, [52;]
Mohammedan plots, [220,] [266]

Peacock, Sir Barnes, revises Penal Code, [180]

Pegu annexed by Lord Dalhousie, [169,] [170]

Peishwa, Mahratta, his feudatories jealous of the British, [186;]
refuses the subsidiary alliance, [89;]
flight to British territory, [92;]
accepts subsidiary alliance at Bassein, ib.;
disaffected, [99;]
intrigues, [111;]
hostility, [115;]
defeat and flight, [116;]
extinction, [119;]
at Bithoor, [245]

Penal Code, drafted by Lord Macaulay, revised by Sir Barnes Peacock, [180]

Persia, mission of John Malcolm, [103;]
collision with British India, [140;]
menaced by Russia, [141;]
advance of Russia checkmated by Nadir Shah, [143;]
Persian invasion of India, [144;]
British expedition to the Persian Gulf, [181;]
its return to India, [217]

Peshawar, valley of, wrested from the Afghans by Runjeet Singh, [103;]
reoccupied by Afghans in second Sikh war, [163;]
the key to India, [225;]
frontier tribes, ib.;
peril during the sepoy mutinies, ib.;
execution of rebels, [226;]
proposed withdrawal, [228;]
overruled by Lord Canning, [229]

Peter the Great, covert advance to India, [143;]
checkmated by Nadir Shah, ib.

Pindharies, freebooters in the Mahratta armies, [104;]
horrible raids in British territory, [110;]
George Canning's denunciations, [111;]
campaign of Lord Hastings, [113;]
extinction of the gangs, [115]

Pitt, Thomas, Governor of Madras, [29;]
his diamond, [30]

Pitt, William, the younger, his India Bill, [75;]
creates a Board of Control, [76;]
marvellous statesmanship, [137]

Plassy, battle of, [42]

Pollock, General, avenges the British losses in the Khyber, [151;]
relieves Sale and restores British prestige, [152]

Pondicherry, French settlement, [32;]
British carried prisoners to, ib.

Poona, head-quarters of the Sivaji family, [71;]
capital of the Mahratta Peishwas, ib.;
interference of Bombay, [72,] [73;]
negotiations of Lord Wellesley, [86;]
flight of the Peishwa to Bassein, [92;]
subsidiary alliance, ib.;
intrigues, [112,] [113;]
British residency burnt, [116;]
incorporated with the Bombay Presidency, [119]

Portuguese in India, their fortresses, [3;]
thwart the British at Surat, [4;]
intermarriages with the British at Madras, [12;]
slave trade, [19;]
settlement at Hughly, [20;]
destroyed by the Great Mogul, [21]

Pottinger, Eldred, Captain, [151]

Provinces, regulation and non-regulation, [166,] [289;]
distinction effaced, [297]

Punjab, Sikh rule under Runjeet Singh, [102;]
relations with the British government, [103;]
attitude in the first Afghan war, [146;]
opened to British troops after the death of Runjeet Singh, [147;]
a Sikh army under French officers a menace to Hindustan, [153;]
review of Sikh history, [154;]
army of the Khalsa, [156;]
anarchy, [157;]
despotism of the army, ib.;
Sikh invasion of British India, [158;]
Aliwal and Sobraon, [159;]
end of first Sikh war, [160;]
mixed government, ib.;
revolt at Multan, [161;]
second Sikh war, [162;]
Chillianwalla, [163;]
Goojerat, [164;]
annexation, [165;]
patriarchal rule, [166;]
non-regulation system, ib.;
land settlement, [167;]
frontier province of India on the north-west, facing Afghanistan and Cashmere, [186;]
musketry school at Sealkote, [193;]
John Lawrence, chief commissioner, sends the Punjab "Guides" to Delhi, [222;]
disaffection of Bengal sepoy regiments, [224;]
valley of Peshawar, [225;]
Sikh volunteers, [226;]
John Nicholson, the sainted warrior,[ 227;]
difficulties of John Lawrence, [228;]
fall of Delhi, [231]

Railways in India, [173,] [174]

Rajputana, princes and chiefs taken under British protection by Lord Wellesley, [95;]
annulment of treaties by Sir George Barlow, [99;]
plundered by the Mahrattas, ib.;
ravaged by Sindia and Amir Khan, [105;]
renewal of protective treaties by Lord Hastings, [120;]
relations with the British government, [289]

Rajputs, in Bengal sepoy army, [191]

Rama, the ancient hero of Oudh, [104]

Rana, of Oodeypore, his descent, [104;]
war for his daughter, [105;]
her death, [106]

Rangoon, expedition to, [121;]
second Burmese war, [168]

Rawlinson, Major, at Candahar, [146,] [152]

Revenue, Board of, [128]

Rewah in Central India, [289] note

Roe, Sir Thomas, Ambassador to India, [135]

Rohilcund, mutiny in, [228]

Runjeet Singh, Sikh ruler of the Punjab, [102;]
relations with the British government, [103;]
attitude in the first Afghan war, [146;]
death, ib.;
genius and depravity, [156;]
family pensioned, [165]

Russia menaces Persia, [141,] [143;]
driven back by Nadir Shah, [144;]
cat's-paw policy, [145;]
hold on Turkistan, [296]

Ryotwari settlement, in Madras presidency, [133;]
introduced into Bombay presidency, [134]

Sale, Sir Robert, sent to Jellalabad, [149;]
besieged by Afghans, [151]

Sealkote, mutiny at, [229]

Secretary of State, Council of, [301]

Sepoy army of India, [188;]
old mutinies, [189;]
separate armies of Bengal, Bombay, and Madras, [190;]
high caste in old Bengal army, [191;]
mutinies against greased cartridges, [193]-[274]

Seringapatam taken by storm, [86]

Shere Ali Khan, Amir of Afghanistan, [291;]
estranged from British government, [296;]
flight, ib.;
death, [297]

Shore, Mr. John, presses for an inquiry into rights of ryots, [79;]
Governor-General, [81]

Sikh, kingdom founded by Runjeet Singh, [102;]
review of Sikh history, [154]-[157;]
first Sikh war, [158;]
second Sikh war, [161;]
annexed to British India, [165;]
help the British against Delhi, [222,] [226,] [237]

Sind, Amirs of, defeat of, [152;]
their territories incorporated with the Bombay presidency, ib.

Sindia, Mahadaji, feudatory of the Peishwa, [71;]
established a dominion in Hindustan, [72;]
French battalions, [83;]
rule of Daulat Rao, [90;]
his vacillation, [93;]
flight at Assaye, [94;]
joins Holkar, [97;]
returns to the British alliance, [98;]
ravages Rajputana, [105;]
secret negotiation, [111;]
submission, [114]

Sitabuldi Hill, battle on, [116,] [117]

Sivaji, hero of the Mahrattas, [71;]
his tomb repaired, ib. note

Slavery, Hindu and Mohammedan, [18;]
Mogul restrictions, [19;]
Portuguese trade, ib.;
abolished at Madras, [22]

Sobraon, battle of, [159]

Sudder Courts, [127] note, [128,] [284]

Supreme and Sudder Courts amalgamated, [284]

Surat, British traders at, [3;]
factory, [4;]
foreign guests, [5;]
decay, [24]

Suttee, abolished, [123]

Talukdars, or zemindars, [130;]
discontent in Oudh, [220;]
healed, [293]

Tayler, Mr. William, quashes plot at Patna, [266]

Thomason, Mr., Lieut.-Governor, land settlement finished, [167,] [168;]
constructs macadamised roads, [172]

Thugs, atrocities of, [124;]
hereditary gangs, ib.;
suppression, [125]

Tippu of Mysore, first war against, [80;]
alliance with the French, [84;]
second war and death, [86;]
family, [100,] [283]

Trevelyan, Sir Charles, protests against income tax, [283]

Tucker, Mr. Robert, at Futtehpore, murdered, [257]

Turkey, menaced by Russia, [141]

Vellore, sepoy revolt at, [100,] [188]

Village communities in the North-West Provinces, [128;]
in the Madras Presidency, [131;]
changes, [299]

Wales, Prince of, his tour in India, [295]

Water-ways in India, [171]

Wellesley, Marquis of, Governor-General, [82;]
political system of subsidiary alliances, [89;]
fears of France, [90;]
mission to Persia, [91;]
acquisitions from Oudh, ib.;
wars, [94;]
reversal of his policy, [98]

Wellington, Duke of, opposes recall of Lord Ellenborough, [154]

Wheeler, General Sir Hugh, commands at Cawnpore, [244]-[249;]
surrenders to Nana Sahib, [253]

Willoughby, Lieut., blows up the magazine at Delhi, [214;]
murdered, [215]

Wilson, Mr. James, Finance Minister, [282;]
proposes income tax, ib.;
death, [283]

Yakub Khan, imprisoned by his father Shere Ali, [296;]
succession and abdication, [297]

Zemindars, status in Bengal, [59;]
created in the Madras Presidency, [132]

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