Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official

by Sir W. H. Sleeman

MAPS SHOWING AUTHOR'S ROUTE

Transcriber's Note: Only a small part or the printed map is reproduced here to keep the file size small, and maintain good legibility, while still showing the route taken.

Route Sagar to Sardhana: Chapters 15 to 75.

Route Jabalpur to Sagar: Chapters 1 to 15.

[INDEX]

[Transcriber's note. Many of the spellings in this index differ from the spelling used in the text and notes, especially in the use of the diacritical mark.]

Abū-Alīsena, or Avicenna, 339, 524.
Abū Bakr, Khalīf, 199.
Abūl Fazl, 111 n., 355 n.; on music, 562 n.
Abūl Hasan = Amīr Khusrū, poet, 508 n.
Acacia suma, worshipped, 174 n.
Adam's Bridge, 692 n.
Adham Khān, tomb of, 503 n.
Ādi Granth, Sikh scripture, 477 n.
Adilābād, in Old Delhi, 487 n.
Adoption, 211 n.
Adultery, 198-201.
Afghan War, first, 291 n., 417; history, 288-91.
Ages, Hindu, 522 n.
Agra, Christians at. II, 335; buildings at, 312-24; date of fort at, 357 n.; books about, 358 n.
Ahmadnagar, kingdom, 458 n.
Ahmad Shāh, Durrānī, 289.
Ajmēr, 350.
Ajodhya, kingdom, 374; city, 457 n., 641.
Akbar (I), the Great, taxed marriages, 40 n.; had Abūl Fazl as minister, 111 n.; officials of, 283 n.; tomb and bones of, 323, 325, 354 n.; character of, 356 n.; Maryam-uz-Zamānī, queen of, 348 n.; sons of, 350; conquests of, 458; punished Thugs, 652. (II), titular emperor, 309 n., 337, 501 n., 509 n., 525 n.
Āl dye, 228 n.
Alā-ud-dīn Muhammad Shāh, 489, 490 n., 497 n., 503.
Alīgarh District, 435 n., 441 n.; battle of, 566 n.
Altamsh, see Īltutmish. Sultan.
Amānat Khān, calligraphist, 316 n., 516.
Amarkantak, 14.
America, war with, 628.
Amīr Alī, Thug, 653.
Amīr Jumla, 513 n., 360 n.
Amīr Khān, Nawāb, 66 n., 130.
Ammonites, 121.
Angels, Muhammadan beliefs about, 40.
Angora, battle of, 531 n.
Anūpshahr, 605.
Anurshīrvān (Naushīrvān), 135 n.
Apis dorsata, bee, 4 n.
Arboriculture, 451 n.
Archaeological Survey, 520 n.
Architecture in India, 456.
Aristotle, 341,524.
Arjumand Bānō Bēgam, 315 n., 325.
Armenian tombs, 335 n.
Arms, license to carry, 246 n.
Army, value of native Indian, 632.
Arrian quoted, 285.
Arsenic, poisoning by, 86 n.
Art in India, 379.
Āsaf Khān (1), Akbar's general, 191 n.; (2) brother of Nūr Jahān, 328, 329, 332, 334.
Āsaf-ud-daula, of Oudh, 641.
Ascetics, 592 n.
Asīrgarh, 163 n.
Asoka, monolith pillars of, 493 n.
Assaye, battle of, 600.
Assassins, sect of, 491 n.
Attar of roses, 216.
Auchmuty, Sir Samuel, 619 n.
Auckland, Lord, 291 n., 347 n., 563 n., 571.
Aurangzēb, emperor, 273-6, 314, 335, 513.
Austin de Bordeaux, 319, 516.
Avatār, 10, 45.
Avicenna, 339, 524.
Ayesha, story of, 198.
Azam, Prince, 274 n.
Azīm-ash-Shān, Prince, 275 n.
Azīz Koka, 504 n.

Bābur, 527.
Babylon, history of, 452.
Badarpur, in Old Delhi, 486 n., 487 n.
Bagree dacoits, xxxiii.
Bahādur Shāh (I), 275 n.; (II), 309 n., 501 n.
Bāhmani dynasty, 458 n.
Baid, defined, 107 n.
Baijnāth shrine, 590.
Bairāgīs, 300, 370, 591, 592 n.
Baird, Sir David, 634, 640 n.
Baitantī river, 209.
Baiza Bāī, 303,466.
Bajazet (Bāyazīd), Greek emperor, 531.
Bājī Rāo, I and II, Peshwās, 381 n.
Bājpai family, xxxii.
Bajranggarh, Rājā of, 293.
Bakshī, or paymaster, 211.
Bālā Bāi, 563.
Balban, Sultan, 420 n., 488 n., 502.
Baldēo (Bāladeva), (1) brother of Krishna, 379; (2) Singh, defender of Bharatpur, 360.
Bali Rājā, a demon, 2, 33.
Ballabhgarh, 475.
Ballot Act, 399 n.
Bamboos, 311.
Bamhauri, in Orchhā State, 124, 172.
Bāna-linga, 122 n., 141 n.
Bānda, town, 78.
Baniyā, defined, 295 n.
Banjāra tribe, 100.
Bankers, Indian private, 409 n.
Banks, Presidency, 424 n.
Banyan tree, 385, 566 n.
Bāolī, defined, 442, 446.
Barber, as match-maker, 16.
Barlow, Sir George, 271 n.
Barnes, Sir B., C.-in-C-., 618 n., 619 n.
Baroda, Gaikwār of, 286.
Barrackpore, mutiny at, 2.
Barwā Sāgar, 207.
Basalt, 96-8, 113, 261, 268.
Basant festival, 501.
Basrah (Bussorah), 199.
Batavia, capture of, 691 n.
Bathing, religions merit of, l.
Bāwarias of Muzaffarnagar, 235 n.
Beef, eating of, 194, 203.
Bees, at Marble Rocks, 4.
Bēgam Sarāi at Delhi, 510 n.
Belemnites, fossil, 121.
Benares, city, 25, 103 n.; province, 434 n.
Bengal, permanent settlement of, 64 n.; Islam in, 424 n.; territories, defined, 553 n.; river thuggee in, 652.
Bentinck, Lord William, 109, 321 n., 341 n., 445, 547, 548, 571, 614, 618, 619 n., 632 n.
Berār, kingdom, 156 n., 458 n.
Bernier, (1) François, on suttee, 26 n., 47 n.; historical work of, 273 n.; (2) Major, 606.
Betel leaf, 216 n.
Betiyā (Bettia), Christian colony at. 11, 13 n.
Bhāgavata Purāna, 10 n.
Bhagvān = Vishnu = God, 2.
Bharat, brother of Rāma, 374, 382.
Bharatpur (Bhurtpore), sieges of, 116, 355, 359-62, 377, 562 n.
Bherāghāt (-garh), 1, 6, 18, 54.
Bhīl tribes, 295.
Bhīlsā, town, 264.
Bhōjpur, 146.
Bhonslās of Nāgpur, 103 n., 286, 292, 381.
Bhopāl, 238.
Bhrigu-pātā sacrifice, 103 n.
Bhūmiāwat, 245-52.
Bhūmkā, 60 n.
Bhurtpore, see Bharatpur.
Biās river, (1) = Hyphasis, in Panjāb, 3 n., 165 n.; (2) in Central Provinces, 204, 290.
Bīdar kingdom, 458 n.
Bīghā, defined, 453 n.
Bihārī Mall, Rājā, 348 n.
Bījāpur, great gun at, 241 n.; fall of, 286 n.; kingdom, 458 n.
Bindāchal, 590.
Bindrāban (Brindāban), 120.
Bird, Robert Merttins, 575 n.
Birjū Bāulā, singer, 562.
Bīrsingh Dēo, Rājā, 134, 164 n., 232, 237.
Black buck, 236 n.; Hole, 582.
Blake, Mr., murder of, 503, 504 n.
Blights, 193-8.
Boigne, General de, 271.
Bombay land System, 576.
Borak, Muhammad's donkey, 541.
Bow, use of, 80.
Brahmā, god, 7, 9, 45 n., 376 n., 594.
Brahmans forbid marriage of widows, 26; sacrificed, 46.
Bruce, Captain, (1) brother of (2), 270; (2) James, traveller, 270 n.
Budha Gupta, king, 55 n.
Budhuk dacoits, xxxv.
Buffaloes, sacrificed, 46 n.
Bulākī, Prince, 334.
Buland Darwāza, 352 n.
Bullocks, price of, 437.
Bundēla Rājpūts, 144 n., 185.
Bundēlkhand, 94 n., 111, 112, 149, 185, 207, 209 n., 227.
Bundēlkhandī dialects, 188 n.
Burial, alive, 570; customs, 218 n.
Burn, Lieut.-Col., 421 n.
Bussorah, see Basrah.
Buxar, battle of, 338 n.

Cairo, mosques at, 494 n.
Calcutta, commercial crisis of 1883 at, 422.
Canals, 158 n.
Cannibalism, 152.
Capital, foreign, 422.
Carpets made at Jhānsī, 217, 241.
Caste, 45-51.
Cattle-poisoning, 86 n.
Cawnpore, rise of, 445 n.
Ceded provinces, 434 n.
Census, 194 n.
Central India, 178.
Central Provinces, 57 n., 94 n.
Chambal river, 301, 303.
Chambēlī, or jasmine, 33.
Champat Rāī, Bundēla, 190 n.
Chandamirt (chandan mirt), 141, 588, 593.
Chand Bardāi, poet, 190 n.
Chandēl Rājpūts, 144 n., 178 n., 185, 189.
Chandērī State, 193, 251, 293.
Chāndnī Chauk, Delhi, 604 n.
Chandra, Rājā, 498 n.
Chaprāsī, or orderly, 74 n.
Cheonkal (chhonkar) tree, 174.
Cherry, Mr., murder of, 473.
Chhatarpur State, 192.
Chhatarsāl, Rājā, 94, 193.
Chick-pea, or gram, 414 n.
Chiefs' colleges, 256 n.
China, land tenure in, 423; Tīmūr's designs on, 533.
Chingīz Khan, 535.
Chītal, spotted deer, 244 n.
Chitōr, towers at, 493 n.
Chitragupta, secretary to Yamarāja, 9.
Chitrakōt, 95.
Cholera, beliefs about, 163, 232.
Christians, 11-13, 335, 424.
Chuhārī, Christian colony at, 13 n.
Cicer arietinum, gram, 150 n.
Cis-Sutlaj States, 476 n.
Cities, growth of, 455.
Civil Service of India, 426 n., 649.
Clerk, Sir George, 90 n.
Coal, 230, 231 n.
Codes, 65 n., 66 n.
Coins, of Nūrjahān, 333 n.; of Sikhs, 477 n.; largesse, 479 n.
Colebrooke, Sir B., 461.
Combermere, Lord, 355 n., 359, 618.
Concan, see Konkan.
Conquered Provinces, 434 n.
Corn laws, 574.
Cornwallis, Lord, second administration of, 460 n.
Corporal punishment, see Flogging.
Corruption, official, 403.
Cotton, soil, black, 94 n., 149 n., 258 n.; -tree, 385.
'Covenanted' service, 426 n.
Cow, veneration of, 163, 202.
Criminal tribes, 234 n., 557 n.; law, 305 n.
Crooke, Mr. William, xix; on veneration of the cow, 163 n.
Cubbon, Sir Mark, 90 n.
Customs, inland, 347 n.; hedge, 426 n.

Dacoits, Sleeman's books on, xxxiii, xxxv, 89.
Daityas, bad spirits, 10.
Dalhousie, Lord, xxv; annexation policy of, 187 n.
Damoh, town, 76.
Dāniyāl, Prince, 334.
Dārā Shikoh, Prince, 272-4, 511-13 n.
Darbhanga, 51.
Dargāh, defined, 568 n.
Dasahara ceremonies, 175 n., 241 n., 293, 296.
Dasān river, 108.
Dasaratha, Rājā, 382.
Datiyā, Rājā of, 193, 221, 226.
Datūra, poisoning, 82-6.
Daulatābād, 490.
Daulat Rāo Sindhia, 563.
Davis, Mr., gallant defence by, 474 n.
Dāwar Baksh, Prince, 334.
De Boigne, see Boigne, General de.
Deccan, geology of, 97 n., 114 n,; kingdoms of, 285; early history of, 457.
Deeg, see Dīg.
Delhi, territories, 420 n., 448, 459 n.; province, 459 n.; defended by Burn, 421; old city of, 486-503; Sultans of, 488 n.; new city of, 504-30; Jāmi Masjid at, 514; Motī Masjid at, 514 n.; palace at, 515-19; peacock throne at, 517; books about, 519 n.; taken by Tīmūr, 529.
Denudation, sub-aerial, 138 n.
Deorī, town, 124, 129.
De Thevenot, see Thevenot, de.
Devas, good spirits, 10.
Devī, goddess, 7, 593.
Devil, Muhammadan myth of, 537.
Devils, 223 n.
Dhamonī, 110.
Dhandēla Rājpūts, 187.
Dhanuk jag festival, 173.
Dharmsālā, defined, 568 n.
Dhaū (Lythrum fructuosum) tree, 237.
Dhīmar caste, 76.
Dhōlpur State, 272, 302-10.
Diamonds, great, 290.
Dīg (Deeg), garden at, 364; battle at, 421, 566 n.
Dīnāī, slow poison, 142.
Dinapore, 341.
Discipline, military, xxxiii, 615-40.
Diseases, Hindoo notions about, 168.
Districts, civil, size of, 646 n.
Dīwān-i-Āmm, at Delhi, 515.
Dīwān-i-Khās, at Delhi, 517.
Dīwanī, grant of, 500.
Doāb defined, 233 n.
Dost Muhammad, 291.
Drowning, suicide by, 219.
Dubois, Hindu Manners, xix.
Dudrenec, Monsieur, 603.
Durgāvatī, queen, 190.
Dutch factory at Agra, 335.
Dyce, Colonel, 611.
Dyce-Sombre, Mr., 595, 610.

Education, of young nobles, 256 n.; Muhammadan and English, 523, 524 n.
Egypt, expedition to, 634, 640 n.
Electricity, 311.
Elephant-drivers, 50.
Elichpur (Īlichpur), 156.
Ellis, Mr., at Patna, 597.
Ellora, 8 n.; 653.
Epidemics, 161-72.
Epilepsy, 221.
Eran, pillar at, 55.
Erythrina arborescens, or coral-tree, 74 n.
Etāwah, Thuggee in, 652.
Evil eye, 168.
Exogamy, 144 n.
Exorcisers, 168.

Fairs, 1.
Fakīrs, 370, 591, 592 n.
Famine, of 1833, 148; policy, 150; in Mālwā, 441 n.
Fanshawe, H. C., on Delhi, 520 n.
Farhad, poet, 136.
Farīdābād (Farīdpur), 479, 480 n.
Farīd-ud-dīn Ganj Shakar, saint, 507 n.
Faringia (Feringheea), Thug, 78.
Farrukhsīyar, emperor, 275 n.
Fathpur-Sīkrī, 351-8.
Fatwa, defined, 200 n., 536.
Fergusson, on Indian architecture, 359 n.
Fertility, diminution of, 413 n.,415.
Feudal System, 145, 578 n.
Ficus religiosa, pīpal tree, 205 n.
Filose, Jean Baptiste, 115 n., 293, 296.
Finch, traveller, quoted, 324 n.
Fīrōzābād at Delhi, 497 n.
Fīrōzpur, 420, 459.
Fīrōz Shāh Tughlak, deported Thugs, 652.
Fish, Persian order of, 135, 137; eating, 307.
Flattery, 243.
Flax plant, 195.
Flogging in army, 616-22, 637.
Fontenne, de, maiden name of Lady Sleeman, xxiii.
Forest department, 451 n.
Forester, Lady, 612 n.
Fortresses, insalubrity of, 111.
Fossils, 98, 121.
Francolinus vulgaris, black partridge, 44 n.
Fraser, Mr. C., xxiii, 89 n.; Mr. Hugh, xxiv; Major-General, 89 n.; Mr. W., murder of, 420, 458-75.
Frederick the Great, 625, 629.
Fullerton, Dr., 597.
Funeral obsequies, 620 n.
Furse, Mrs., sister of author, xxv n., xxx.
Futtehpore Seekree, see Fathpur-Sīkrī.
Fyzābād, 457 n., 641.

Gabriel, angel, 37.
Gaīkwār of Baroda, 286.
Galen, 339, 524.
Gandak river, 121 n.
Ganges river, 6, 17; water, 141 n., 588, 594.
Gardiner (Gardner), Colonel, 346.
Garhā, Rānī of, 56, 73.
Garhā Kota, 293.
Garhā Mandla, xxxii, 190.
Gārpagrī, hail-charmer, 60 n,.
Gaur, 330 n.
Gaurī Sankar, 6, 54.
Geronimo Veroneo, 320 n.
Ghaznī, 454 n.
Ghiyās-ud-dīn, Khwāja, 328.
Ghorapachhār rivers, 298.
Ghosts, 221-6.
Ghulām Kādir, 338 n.
Gipsies, 535, 557 n.
God, ninety-nine names of, 323 n.
Gohad, Rānā of, 270-2, 302.
Golconda, fall of, 286 n.; kingdom of, 458 n.
Gonds, xxxii, 68, 102, 128, 221, 384.
Gondwāna rocks, 231 n.
Gosāīns, 218, 370, 591, 592 n.
Govardhan, 337,371-83.
Gram, 197, 198 n., 227, 414 n.
Grasses, 124.
Groves, 260, 433-41, 444, 565.
Guinea-worm, 77.
Gūjar caste, 192, 469 n.
Gujarāt, 149, 441.
Gulistan, quoted, 401.
Guns made in India, 241.
Gūrkhas (Gōrkhās), 350, 625 n.
Guru Govind, 477 n.
Gwālior State, 258-70, 292, 294, 299; city, 262; fortress, 266-71.

Hāfiz Rahmat Khān, 599.
Hājī Bēgam, 511 n.
Hakīm defined, 107 n.
Hamīda Bāno Bēgam, 511 n.
Hānsī, 604 n., 605 n.
Hanumān, monkey-god, 27, 300, 371, 374.
Hardaul, Lālā, legend of, 162-5, 232.
Hardinge, Lord (Viscount), letter to, xxix n.
Hasan, 483 n.
Hastings, Lord (Marquis of), 229, 292, 321, 381 n.
Haunted villages, 221-6.
Hawking, 237.
Hay in Bundēlkhand, 124.
Herbert, Sir Thomas, quoted, 332 n.
Hervey, Some Records of Crime, xxvi.
High Courts, 555 n.
Hiliyā (Haliyā) Pass, 444 n.
Himālaya, v, xxiv.
Hinduism, 176.
Hippocrates, 339, 524.
Hirtius, nom de plume of author, xxxi.
Holī, festival, 204, 483 n.
Holkar dynasty, 286, 381.
Horal (Hodal), town, 426.
Hornets, 56.
Human sacrifice, 46 n., 101.
Humāyūn, emperor, tomb of, 511.
Husain. 483 n.
Hyderābād Contingent, 156 n.
Hyphasis (Biās) river, 3, 165.

Iblīs, the devil, 538.
Ibn Batuta, traveller, 488 n.
Ibrāhīm Lodi, Sultan, 269.
Id-ul-Bakr festival, 163 n.
Īltutmish, Sultan, 269; buildings of, 492, 494 n., 495 n., 497, 500; tomb of, 501.
Imam Mashhadī, tomb of, 503.
Imām-ud-dīn Ghazzālī, 341 n., 524. Imperial Service Troops, 280 n.
Impressment, 184, 628.
India, people of, vi; population of, 38 n.
Indore State, 286, 292.
Indra, god, 2, 10, 33.
Industries, 159 n.
Infanticide, 28.
Inheritance, law of, 578.
Invalid establishment, 640.
Iron mines, 93, 230; pillar of Delhi, 498.
Islam in Lower Bengal, 424 n.
Isle of France (Mauritius), 311, 620 n., 622.
Itimād-ud-daula, 326-9.

Jabalpur, see Jubbulpore.
Jack-tree, 225.
Jagannāth, shrine of, 589.
Jāgīrdārs, 181.
Jahānārā Bēgam, tomb of, 510.
Jahāngīr, (1) emperor, 111 n., 333, 452, 568 n., mother of, 348 n.; birth of, 351, 355; (2) Mirzā, tomb of, 509.
Jain statues at Gwālior, 267 n.
Jaipur State, xxxii, 503.
Jaitpur, Rāj of, 193 n.
Jalāl-ud-dīn, Fīrōz Shāh Khiljī, 489.
Jālaun State, 185, 193.
Jamāldehī Thugs, 82.
Jang Bahādur, Sir, 598 n.
Jasmine, 33.
Jāts (Jats), 307, 380 n.; outrages of, 354 n.; and Rājpūts, 476 n.
Java, conquest of, 619, 640 n.
Jaxartes, river, 532.
Jesuit missionaries, 337 n.
Jesus, inscription quoting, 354, 504.
Jeswant Rāo Holkar, 165, 421, 474 n.
Jhajjar, Nawāb of, 474.
Jhānsī State, 185, 193 n., 209-19.
Jhirni, Thug signal, 81.
Jodh Bāī, tomb of, 348.
Johilā river, 14, 16.
Johnson (Johnstone), Bēgam, 580.
Jubbulpore (Jabalpur), xxiii, 1, 29, 58, 71.
Julius Caesar, Bishop, 594.

Kābul, mission of Burnes to, 417 n.
Kailās temple, 8 n.
Kalas custom, 179.
Kali age, 522 n.
Kālī, goddess, 141 n.
Kalpa Briksha tree, 74.
Kām Baksh, Prince, 274 n.
Kanauj, ancient city, 454.
Kandēlī, Thug village, xxii.
Karaulī State, 293.
Karbalā, battle of, 483 n.
Kārtikeya, god, 259 n.
Kāsim, Mīr (Kāsim Alī Khān), 596- 9.
Katrā Pass, 127, 445 n.
Kaukabas, 136.
Kedārnāth temple, 592 n.
Kerahi (Kerāi) Pass, 445 n.
Khajurāho, temples at, 193 n.
Khalīfate, the, 483 n.
Khān Azam, 333.
Kharītā defined, 134 n.
Kharwā cloth, 228 n.
Khusrū, (1) Parvīz, King of Persia, 135; (2) Prince, son of Jahāngīr, 333; (3) poet, tomb of, 507.
Khwāja Ghiās-ud-dīn, 326.
Kohinūr diamond, 288-91, 513 n.
Kōil, battle of, 566 n.
Konkan (Concan), 225.
Korān, origin of, 481.
Kosī, 424.
Kotwāl defined, 154 n.
Krishna, legends of. 11, 371-5.
Kumāra, god, 259 n.
Kunbī caste, 381 n.
Kurmī caste, 130.
Kutb Mīnār, 492-7, 504; mosque, 497.
Kutb-ud-dīn, (1) Khan, 330; (2) Sultan, 494n.; (3) Khwāja, saint of Ūsh, 494 n., 500 n.

Lachhman, brother of Rāma, 382.
Lachhmī Bāī, Rānī of Jhansī, 193 n., 220 n.
Lahar fort, 270 n.
Lake, Lord, 359, 377, 380, 421, 561, 643.
Lakes, artificial, 63, 178.
Land-revenue, 61 n., 63 n., 68 n.
Laswārī, battle of, 116, 566 n.
Laterite, 92.
Lathyrus, poisonous species of, 104.
Leprosy, 215 n.
Le Vaisseau, Monsieur, 603-10.
Linseed, 195.
Liverpool, Earl of, 580.
Lodhī caste, 130 n.
Looting shops, custom of, 294.
Lotus, 109 n.
Lowis, Captain, xxxiii.
Lucknow, author Resident at, xxv; an ancient city, 457 n.
Lūdiāna, 3, 290.

Macaulay, 341 n., 547 n.
Madras system of land settlement, 576.
Mahābhārata, 5, 10, 103 n., 522.
Māhādajī (Mādhojī) Sindhia, 271, 563.
Mahādēo (Siva), god, 7, 8, 9, 45 n., 103 n., 141 n.; oracle of, 484; sandstones, 102.
Mahī Marātib, 135, 137 n.
Mahārājpur, battle of, xxv, 271 n.
Mahmūd of Ghaznī, 454.
Mahoba, town, 189, 193 n.
Maihar, Rājā of, 127, 593.
Maille, Claudius, 560.
Makwānpur, fort, 598.
Malcolm, Sir John, 229.
Mālguzārī tenure, 144.
Mālwā, province, 149, 238, 239 n., 451.
Mandēsar, Thug burying-place, xxii.
Mansabdārs, 283 n.
Mān Singh, (1) Rājā of Gwālior, 276 n.; (2) Rājā of Jaipur (Ambēr), 333.
Mansūr Alī Khān, tomb of, 506, 544 n.
Manucci, on Akbar, 325 n., 354 n.
Manuscript works of author, xxxvii.
Marāthās, 294; defeated, 421 n., 566 n.
Marble Rocks, 1; quarries, 318.
Marriage, of trees, 32, 122, 143; of Hindoos, 37-40.
Maryam-uz-Zamānī, queen of Akbar, 348 n.
Mashhad (Meshed), 288.
Material progress of India. 414 n.
Mathurā (Muttra), 383.
Mau (Mhow), town, 247.
Mauritius, 311 n., 620 n.
Mauza defined, 60 n.
Medicine, systems of, 107, 571.
Meerut, military and civil station, xxiv, 80, 544 n., 567-70, 579; sacked by Tīmūr, 529.
Megpunnaism (Megpunnia Thugs), xxxii, 91, 593 n.
Metcalfe, Sir Charles, 347, 461, 563 n.
Meteors, 34-7.
Mewātīs, 420.
Mihrauli, tombs at, 500 n.
Mihr-un-nisā, 328 n.; see Nūr Jahān.
Military discipline, xxxiii, 615-40.
Mīnārs, 492 n.
Mīr Jumla, see Amīr Jumla.
Miracles, 337.
Mirzāpur, 250, 445.
Mishkāt-ul-Masābih, 35.
Missionaries, Jesuit, 337 n.
Mogul (Moghal, Mughal), defined, 80 n.; raids, 490.
Molony, Report on Narsinghpur, xxxvii.
Monastic orders, 592.
Monghyr (Mungēr), 642.
Monkeys, 383.
Monson's retreat, 474, 566 n.
Months, Hindoo, l.
Motī Masjid (mosque), 322.
Muazzam, Prince, 274 n.
Muhammad, Ghorī, Sultan, 269 n.; Shāh, 291 n., 518; tomb of, 510; son of Īsā, architect, 319 n.; bin Tughlak, Sultan, 457 n., 487 n.
Muhammadabad, in old Delhi, 487.
Muhammadan schools, 480; year, 482; prayers, 489.
Muharram celebrations, 482.
Mumtāz-i-Mahall, 315, 325.
Music of Hindostan, by Strangways, 561 n.

Nābhā, chief of, 476.
Nādir, Shāh, 288, 510, 516.
Nāgaudh (Nāgod), 33 n.
Nāgpur (Nagpore), Bhonslās of, 286, 292.
Nāhan, Rājā of, 209 n.
Najaf Khān, 599.
Nānā Sāhib, 381 n.
Narsinghpur, xxii, xxxvii, 167.
Nasīr-ud-din of Tūs, 341, 524.
Nepāl, war with, xxi, 122, 598, 636.
Nerbudda (Narbadā) river, 2, 5, 14, 17, 18, 203.
Newspapers, 640.
News-writers, 249 n., 388 n.
Nīlgāi, a kind of antelope, 244.
Nineveh, history of, 452.
nisār coins, 479 n.
Nizāmuddīn Auliyā, saint, 490-2, 507.
Noer, Count von, on Akbar, 324 n.
Norman-French formula, 475.
North-Western Provinces, 434 n.
Nūr Jahān, 325 n., 329, 332, 568 n.
Nūr Mahall, 325 n., 329, 332.

Oaths, 391.
Obsequies, funeral, 620 n.
Ochterlony, Sir David, 598 n., 635.
Ocymum sanctum, basil or tulasī plant, 121 n.
Og (Ūj), King, legend of, 374.
O'Halloran, Major-General Sir Joseph, 344 n.
Omar ('Umar), Khalif, 199 n.
Omens, taken by Thugs and robbers, 297, 651.
Opium department, 324 n.
Oracle of Mahādēo, 484.
Orchhā, State and Rājā of, 132, 139, 193 n., 251 n.
Orpheus, mosaic of, 516.
O'Shaughnessy, Dr. W. B., scientific publications of, 571 n.
Osman (Othman), Khalīf, a Sunnī, 48 n., 483 n.
Otaheite sugar-cane, 208.
Oudh (Oude), Sleeman's work in, xxiv-xxvii; A Journey through, xxxvi; MS. history of reigning family of, xxxvii; infanticide in, 28 n.; Jamāldehī Thugs in, 82; recruits from, 146, 624; annexation of, 187 n.; disorder in, 248,252; Chief Commissioner of, 347 n.; Nawāb Wazīrs of, 473 n.; magisterial powers in, 552 n.; capitals of, 641; Thuggee in, 653.

Paintings, Indian, 379.
Pakkā defined, 435 n.
Palace at Delhi, 515.
Palwal, town, 452.
Pān, 216, 454.
Pāndavas, 5.
Pānīpat, third battle of, 298 n.
Panjāb (Punjab), annexation of, 478 n., 625 n.
Panj (Pānch) Mahāl tract, 124 n. Panna State and Rājā, 95 n., 250 n.
Panther, 115.
Paoli, Mr., 600.
Paralysis, caused by eating Lathyrus sativus, 104.
Parents, murder of indigent, xxxii; reverence for, 254.
Pariahs, 120.
Parihār, Rājpūts, 143.
Parmāl, Chandēl Rājā, 189 n.
Partābgarh in Oudh, xxii, 248.
Partition, 278 n.
Partridge, black, 44, 118.
Pārvatī, goddess, 9, 141 n.
Patēl defined, 221.
'Pathān', as a misnomer, 488 n.
Patharia, town, 91.
Patiālā, chief of, 476.
Patna, massacre of, 597.
Pawār Rājpūts, 187, 189.
Pay of Indian army, 617, 622, 640.
Peacock throne, 517.
Peacocks, 259, 411.
Pensions of Indian army, 632, 640-4.
Perjury, 407, 412.
Permanent settlement, 64 n., 577 n.
Persian, order of the Fish, 135; wheel, 147.
Peshwās, the, 192, 236, 381 n.
Phānsīgars = Tugs, xxxi.
Phoceus baya, weaver bird, 117 n.
Pilgrims, 588-94.
Pillars, monolithic, 493.
Pindhārīs, 130 n., 292-4, 297.
Pīpal tree, 205, 385, 442, 447, 566 n.
Piper betel, 216 n.
Pīr Muhammad, heir of Tīmūr, 534.
Plassey, battle of, 338 n.
Plato, 341, 524.
Poisoners, 82-6.
Police, Indian, 544-61, 647.
Political economy, 157, 160.
Popham, Major, 270.
Population of India, 38 n.
Portax pictus, nīlgāi antelope, 244 n.
Portuguese at Agra, 336 n.
Prāyaschit defined, 215.
Predestination, 511.
Press-gang, 184 n.
Primogeniture, 180, 277, 578.
Prinsep, James, discoveries of, 493.
Prithī Rāj, 498-500.
Processions, 168.
Property in land, 449 n.
Proprietors of land, 576.
Public spirit of Hindoos, xxxiii, 442-51.
Purānas, the, 10, 338 n.
Puri town, 589 n.
Purōhit defined, 140 n.
Purveyance system, 41-4.

Queen, river Nerbudda as a, 14.
Quinine, 107 n.

Raghugarh, Rājā of, 293.
Rainbow myth, 35.
Rāipur town, 72.
Rājpūts, 144.
Rāma and Sītā, 10, 74, 174, 371, 376.
Ramaseeana, xxxi.
Rāmāyana, 484.
Rāmesvaram (Ramisseram), 592 n.
Rāmlīlā, 104.
Rāmnagar, 25.
Rāmpur, Nawāb of, 87, 649.
Ranjit Singh, (1) Maharaja of the Panjāb, 291, 297; (2) Rājā of Bharatpur (Bhurtpore), 377, 380.
Rāvan, 377.
Rāwalpindi, military station, 545 n.
Raziā, Sultan ('empress'), 501 n.
Reglioni (properly Regholini), General (Monsieur), 594.
Regulations, VII of 1822 and IX of 1833, 575 n.
Reinhard, Walter (Sombre), 596.
Rent Acts, 62 n.
'Resumption' of revenue-free lands, 564,
River thuggee, xxxiii, 652.
Rīwā (Rewah) State, 24,
Roads, 301.
Roe, Sir Thomas, ambassador, 351, 452.
Rupee, value of, 77 n., 342 n., 583 n.
Ryotwār System, 576.

Saādat Alī Khān of Oudh, 473 n., 565.
Sacrifice, human, 46 n., 101.
Sādī (Sa'dī), Shaikh, poet, 75, 401, 410, 524.
Sadr Amīn, Subordinate Judge, 646 n.
Safdar Jang, tomb of, 507 n., 544 n.
Sāgar (Saugor), 41, 92, 100, 161; and Nerbudda Territories, 57 n., 94 n., 110 n., 112 n.
Sālagrāms, ammonites, 121.
Saleur, Monsieur, 610.
Salīm, Prince, 350; Shaikh, 350, 362 n., 354.
Salt manufacture, 260, 347 n., 428 n.
Samadh defined, 570.
Samarkand, 530.
Samrū (Sumroo), Bēgam, 504, 545; death of, 567; history of, 594-615; character of, 613.
Samthar, Rājā of, 191.
Sānsias, criminal tribe, 234 n.
Sarasvatī, consort of Brahmā, 7 n.
Sardhana, 594-615.
Sassanians of Persia, 137.
Sātārā, Rājā of, 286, 381.
Satī, see Suttee.
Sātpura, mountains, 52.
Scape-goat, 162-6.
Schools, Muhammadan, 480.
Science in India, 587.
Sebastē, city, 532.
Sects, Muhammadan, 49 n.
Secunderabad, military station, 545 n.
Seniority, promotion by, 622, 632.
'Settlements' of land revenue, 434 n., 575.
Shāh Ālam, 137 n., 338, 563 n.
Shahgarh, Rājā of, 72, 114.
Shāh Jahān, emperor, 314, 316, 320, 504, 510, 513, 560, 561 n.; Thugs in reign of, 652; sons of, 273.
Shāhjahānābād, or New Delhi, 504.
Shahryār, Prince, 334.
Shams-ud-dīn, Nawāb, 420, 458-75.
Sharaf-ud-dīn, historian, 533.
Shēr Afgan, 329-31.
Shēr Khan (Shāh), 270.
Sherwood, Dr., early writer on Thuggee, 653.
Shīa sect, 48 n., 483 n.
Shihāb-ud-dīn, Sultan, 269 n.
Shīrīn, queen, 136.
Shore, F. J., 44 n., 90; Sir John, 473 n., 605, 609.
Sikandar Lodi, Sultan, 357 n.
Sikandara (Secundra), Akbar's tomb at, 323, 354 n., 358 n.
Sikh government, 381.
Sikhs, history of, 477 n.
Sīkrī, 351; see Fathpur-Sīkrī.
Simla, trip to Gungoolee from, xxxvii.
Sindh river, 258.
Sindhia family, 271 n., 286, 294, 381.
Sindhia's territory, 258; see Gwālior State.
Singhāra, or water-nut, 76.
Sirāj-ud-daula, 581.
Sītā Baldī Rāmesar, 592.
Siva, god, 6, 7 n., 9, 45 n., 103 n., 141 n., 376 n., 588, 591.
Sivājī, 381.
Skanda, god, 259 n.
Skinner, Colonel, 463, 612 n.
Slavery in India, 282.
Sleeman, Captain J. L., xx, xxx, 652; Captain Philip, xxi; Lady xxiii, xxxvi; Sir W. H., memoir of, xx-xxx; works of, xxxi-xxxvii, 89 n.; James, xxx; Henry Arthur, xxx; William Henry, xxx.
Small-pox, 169-72.
Smith, F. G., 90; B. W., on Akbar's tomb, 323 n.; on Fathpur Sīkrī, 351 n.
Society in India, 582.
Sombre, see Samrū.
Sōn river, 14, 16.
Spotted deer, 244.
Spry, Dr., works of, 99 n.
Statistics, falsified, 554 n.
Stephen, Carr, on Delhi, 520 n.
Subdivision of property, 432.
Succession to crown, 239.
Sugar-mills, 207-9.
Suicide, vow of, 103.
Sulaimān Shikoh, Prince, 272.
Sultans of Delhi, 488 n.
Sumroo, see Samrū.
Sunnī sect, 48 n.
Supreme (Superior) Court, 555 n.
Sūraj Mall, Rājā, 364 n., 378, 567.
Survey myths, 201.
Suttee, 18-31, 47, 109.
Swallows, 353.
Sweepers, 45, 49.

Taboos, 134 n.
Tāj, the, 312-21.
Tamarind tree, 566.
Tamerlane, see Tīmūr.
Tānda, town, 330.
Tānsēn, singer, 561, 562 n.
Tarmasharīn, Moghal, 490, 507, 529, 535.
Tasmabāz Thugs, 91.
Tavernier, traveller, 316, 320 n.
Taylor, Col. Meadows, Confessions of a Thug, 89 n., 653.
Taxation, indirect, 427; in England and India, 485.
Tehrī, town, 132, 143.
Teignmouth, Lord, 473 n.
Telescope, 543.
Thagī, see Thuggee and Thugs.
Thānadārs, 547.
Thessalonica, massacre of, 402.
Thevenot, de, quoted, 335; described Thuggee, 652.
Thomas, George, adventurer, 603-8.
Thuggee, 77-91,650-3.
Thugs, venerate Nizāmuddīn, 491 n.; on the Bēgam's boundary, 545; method of suppressing, 556 n.; disguised as ascetics, 592 n.
Tieffenthaler, Father, 336 n.
Tiger myths, 124-9.
Tīmūr, sack of Delhi by, 497 n.; history of, 527-34.
Tonk, Nawāb of, 66 n.
Tours, battle of, 513.
Trade, free, 160; Indian, 409 n.
Trap, Deccan, 97 n., 269 n.
Trees, marriage of, 32, 122, 143; sacred, 386 n.
Tughlak Shāh, 486.
Tughlakābād, 486, 489.
Tulasī Dās, poet, 123 n.
Tulsī (tulasī) plant, 121.
Tūs, or Mashhad, q.v., 341 n.

Uchahara State, 33, 148 n.
Ūj (Og), legend of, 374.
Ujjain (Ujain), 146 n.
Ulwar (Alwar) State, xxxii.
'Uncovenanted' service, 426.
United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, 434 n.
United States, war with, 628 n.
Universities, Indian, 256 n.
Urs, defined, 568 n.
Ūsh in Persia, 494 n., 500 n.
Usmān, see Osman.

Vaccination, 171 n.
Vagrancy laws, 370.
Vaikuntha, heaven of Vishnu, 8.
Vegetius quoted, 626 n., &c. Venī-dānam, offering of hair, 56 n.
Veracity, 383-411.
Village communities, 394.
Villages, 60.
Vindhya mountains, 62.
Vindhyan sandstones, 62 n.
Vishnu, god, 2, 7 n., 9, 141 n., 376 n., 588, 591.

Warōrā coalfield, 231 n.
Washermen, 45.
Water offerings, 141, 693.
Water-nut, or -chestnut, 76.
Watts, Governor, 581 n.
Wazīr Alī of Oudh, 473.
Weaver-bird, 173 n.
Wellesley, Marquis, 473 n.
Wells, 363, 435-41; songs sung at, 561 n.
Western Provinces, defined, 574 n.
Wheat, blight on, 195.
Widow-burning, see Suttee.
Widows, sold by auction, xxii; remarriage of, 26.
Wife, a duty of, 132 n.
Wilkinson, (1) Mr. L., and (2) Major, 89 n.
Wilton, Mr. John, 341 n.
Window-tax, 485.
Witchcraft, 68-73.
Wolf-children, xxxv.
Women, dress of, 18; offering of hair by, 56 n.; form of tomb of Muhammadan, 510 n.; secret murders of, 561 n.

Yamarāja (Jamrāj), 9.
Yudhisthira, 11, 522.

Zafaryāb Khān, son of Sombre, 611.
Zālim Singh, freebooter, 129.
Zamān Shāh, 289.
Zamīndārī tenure, 144.