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]