India Under British Rule from the Foundation of the East India Company

by James Talboys Wheeler

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]

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