ADA

ADAM, Mr., Governor-General ad in-
terim, extinguishes the liberty of the
press, 347

Adil Shahee dynasty established at Bee-
japore, 43

Adisoor, king of Bengal, introduces Brah-
mins from Cunouge, 14

Afghan expedition, its progress through
the Bolan Pass, its privations, 396.
Capture of Ghuzni, 397. It reaches
Cabul; flight of Dost Mahomed, 398.
Honours to the victors, 399. The army
retained, 401. Bala Hissar given up;
vicious position of the cantonments,
402. General Nott and Major Rawlin-
son at Candahar. 404. The Eastern
Ghiljies; the Western Ghiljies, 405.
Court of Directors advise retirement;
Lord Auckland determines to remain,
and retrench expenditure, 406. Ghil-
jies revolt and block up the passes, 407.
General revolt in Cabul, 408. Retreat
and extinction of the army, 410, 411
Afghanistan, Sir John Lawrence's policy,
529. Lord Mayo's policy, 530
Ahmednugur, the kingdom established,
43. Its capture by Akbar's generals,
60. The kingdom extinguished, 70
Ahmed Shah Abdalee, his first invasion
of India; second and third invasions,
133. Gives Delhi up to plunder, 134.
His fourth invasion; defeats Sindia and
Holkar, 135. Defeats the great Mah-
ratta force at Paniput, 136. Turns lis
back on India, 137

Akbar, his birth at Amercote, 48. Mounts
the throne, 50. Defeats Hemu at Pani-
put; shakes off the influence of Byram,
51. Insubordination of his generals,
52. They are eventually crushed, and
his authority fully established; matri-
monial alliances with Rajpoot prin-
cesses, 53. Conquers Guzerat, 54. In-
vasion, conquest, loss and recovery of
Bengal, 55. Conquest of Orissa and of
Cashmere, 56. Of Sinde, and recon-
quest of Candahar; his army annihi
lated in the Khyber, 57. He invades
the Deccan, 59. Last four years of his

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life, 60. His death and character, 61.
His institutions; his revenue settle-
ment; splendour of his court, 62
Akbar Khan arrives at Cabul, and takes
command of the insurrection, 412. De-
feated at Jellalabad, 422. And at Te-
zeen, 427

Albuquerque, viceroy of Portuguese India;
founds Goa; extends his power over
12,000 miles of sea-coast; is super-
seded and dies, 110
Alexander the Great enters the Punjab;
defeats Porus, 9. Obliged to turn back
from the Beyas; his death, 10

Ali Gohur, son of the emperor, comes
down on Patna; retires on the ap
proach of Clive, 153. Becomes en
peror under the title of Shah Alum
and again marches on Patna; defeated
by Captain Knox, 155

Ali Morad of Sinde, his infamous conduct,
433

Ali Merdan, makes over Candahar to the
Moguls; his celebrated canal, 70
Aliverdy Khan, supplants Serefraj at
court; defeats him and becomes Soo-
badar of Bengal, 145. Long contests
with the Mahrattas, to whom he at
length cedes Orissa, and agrees to pay
chout, 146. His death, 146
Alla-ood-deen, of the Ghiljie dynasty, in-
vades the Deccan; puts his uncle to
death, 30. Overruns the Deccan, 31.
Miserable close of his life; last of his
conquests, 32

Alliwal, victory gained by General Smith,

450

Almeyda burns Dabul; defeats the Egyp-
tian and Guzeratee fleet, 109
Almora, conquered by Colonel Gardner,

316

Aluptugeen establishes the kingdom of
Ghuzni, 19

Ameer Khan, head of the Patans in
Central India; joins Holkar and plun-
ders the country, 260. Is repulsed from
Nagpore, 297. Confirmed in his acqui-
sitions and breaks up his army, 329
Ameers of Sinde, their severe and unjust

Andhra dynasty, 13

Annexation, the principle of, laid down
by the Court of Directors, 477
Anson, General, Commander-in-Chief, dies
of cholera, 508

Appa Sahib, regent of Nagpore, 322. Signs
a subsidiary treaty, 322. Murders the
raja, and mounts the throne, 331.
Breaks out, and attacks the Residency,
and is defeated, 332. Is deposed, 332
Arracan, conquered from the Burmese,
350

Aryans, their origin and progress, 3
Asoka, extent of his dominions; his
edicts. 11. Establishes the religion of
Booddha; his death, 12

Assam, conquered from the Burmese, 350
Auckland, Lord, Governor-General, 385.

His secretaries. 389. Embarks in
the Afghan expedition, 391. It is uni-
versally reprobated; his manifesto, 392.
Meeting with Runjeet Sing, 395. His
prostration of mind on its failure, 417
Aurungzebe deposes his father and
mounts the throne, 74. Puts his
brothers to death, 75. Defeated in the
Khyber, 83. Persecutes the Hindoos,
84. His conflicts with the Rajpoots, 85.
Proceeds to the Deccan with a magnifi-
cent army, 87. Defeated in the Concan;
extinguishes the kingdom of Beejapore,
88. And of Golconda, 89. Perpetually
harassed by the Mahrattas; his plans
to baffle them, 92. Obliged to treat with
them; retires in disgrace from the
Deccan; his death and character, 93
Aylah bye, her exemplary administration,
260

BABER, his ancestry, 44. His early vicis-

situdes, 45. His expeditions across the
Indus, 45. Defeats the Emperor Ibrahim
at Paniput, and establishes the Mogul
dynasty, 45. Defeats the Rajpoots; his
death and character, 46

Bajee Rao, the first Peshwa; conflicts
with the Nizam, 100. Levies contribu-
tions on Malwa, 100. His demands on
the Emperor; marches to the gates of
Delhi, 102. Defeats the Nizam, 103
Bajee Rao, the last Peshwa; his perfidious
character, 262. Is defeated by Holkar,
and flies to Bassein, 262. Executes the
treaty of Bassein, 262. Infatuated with
his favourite Trimbukjee, 320. Connives
at the murder of Gungadhur Shastree,
320. Surrenders Trimbukjee, who
escapes from confinement, 321. Bajee
Rao prepares for hostilities,325. Obliged
to sign a new treaty and cede territory;
forms a confederacy against the Govern-
ment, 330. Treacherously attacks Mr.

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Elphinstone and is defeated; he flies,
and is pursued, 330. Surrenders, and is
pensioned, and placed at Bithoor, where
he dies after having received two and a
half crores from Government, 336
Bahadoor Shah, Emperor, defeats the
Sikhs; his death, 95

Bahadoor Shah of Guzerat; his conflict
with Humayoon; loses and regains his
throne, 40. His mysterious death at
Diu, 40

Bahminee dynasty established in the
Deccan; constantly at war with Beeja-
nuger and Telingana, 42. It crumbles
to pieces, and five independent monar-
chies spring up, 43

Ballajee Wishwanath establishes the
power of the Peshwas, 96; obtains a dis-
graceful concession from Hoosen Ali,
97. Establishes the cabinet of brahmins,
at his capital Poona, 97. His death, 99
Bank of Bombay, bankrupt, 527
Barlow, Sir George, Governor-General ad
interim, pursues Lord Cornwallis's
policy, 281. His treaties with Sindia
and Holkar, 282. Abandons Jeypoor
and Boondee to Holkar, 282. Appointed
Governor-General by the Court of
Directors: the appointment cancelled
by the Ministry, 288. He restores the
finances, 285. Governor of Madras; his
unpopularity, 297. The mutiny of the
European officers aggravated by his in-
temperance, and quelled by his firmness,
299. He is recalled, 300

Barnard, General, succeeds General Anson,
508. Dies of cholera, 509
Bassein, treaty of, 262

Beder, an independent state, 44
Beejanuger, an independent Hindoo state
established in the Deccan, 34. Its con-
stant wars; its great extent and power;
a confederacy of the Mahomedan princes
in the Deccan attacks and extinguishes
it at Tallikotta, 58

Beejapore, the kingdom established in
1489, 43. Rendered tributary to Delhi,
70. It is extinguished, 88. Unrivalled
magnificence of its edifices, 89

Behar, conquered by Bukhtyar Ghiljie, 26
Benares, the province, taken from the
nabob of Oude, 178. The successful
exertions of Mr. Tucker to save it during
the mutiny, 503

Benfield, Paul, his extortions, 192
Bengal, governed by the Pal and the Sen
dynasties, 14. Conquered by Bukhtyar
Ghiljie, 26. Conquered by Soliman; his
son defeated by Akbar, and the king-
dom absorbed in the Mogul empire, 55
Bentinck, Lord William, recalled from the
Government of Madras, 287. Governor-
General, 357; reduces allowances, and
becomes unpopular, 357; enforces the
half batta order, 358. He annexes
Cachar and Coorg, 361. His non-inter-
vention policy, $62. Takes over the
government of Mysore, 363. Transac
tions with Joudpore and Jeypore. 364
And with Oude, 365. Meeting at Roopur

CLI

ters Seleucus and makes a treaty with
him, 10
Clive, Lieutenant, (afterwards Lord) his
parentage, and early career at Madras,
122. Memorable defence of Arcot, 123.
Captures Geriah near Bombay, 149.
Returns to Madras; proceeds with Ad-
miral Watson to Bengal, and recap-
tures Calcutta, 149. Defeats the nabob
at Dumdum, 150. Concludes a treaty
with him, 150. Captures Chandernagore,
150. Joins the confederacy against the
nabob, 151. Defeats him at Plassy, 151.
Makes Meer Jaffier nabob, 152. His part
in the deceit practised on Omichund,
151. Defeats the Dutch army at Chin-
surah, 154. Returns to England, 154.
Appointed Governor of Bengal, 160.
Finds the whole service corrupt, and
enforces the covenants, 161. Mediatizes
the nabob of Moorshedabad; restores
Oude to the nabob; settles Corah and
Allahabad on the emperor, together with
25 lacs of rupees, 161. Acquires the De-
wanee, 161. Puts down the mutiny of
the European officers, 163. Returns to
England; his disgraceful treatment; dies
by his own hand, 164
Cole insurrection, 360

College of Fort William, established on a
grand scale by Lord Wellesley; reduced
by the Court of Directors, 257
Confederacy of the Peshwa, the Nizam, the
raja of Nagpore and Hyder Ali against
the Company, 189

Coorg, misconduct of the raja; the country
conquered and annexed, 362

Coote, Colonel, (afterwards Sir Eyre) de-
feats Lally at Wandewash, 131. Captures
Pondicherry, 132. Appointed to Council
in Calcutta; goes to Madras and defeats
Hyder thrice, 197. His death, 202
Cornwallis, Lord, Governor-General, as
well as Commander-in-Chief, 216. His
economical reforms; he raises the scale of
allowances and purifies the services, 217.
His revenue reforms, 225. His Perma-
nent Settlement determined on by Mr.
Pitt, an egregious blunder, 227. Re-
models the whole judicial system; reor-
ganizes the civil and criminal courts,227.
His Code, 228. Excludes natives from
the public service, 229. Determines to
meet Tippoo in the field, 219. Forms al-
liances with the Peshwa and the Nizam,
220. Conducts the second campaign
against Tippoo in person; obliged to re-
tire in sight of Seringapatam for want of
provisions, 221. Grand preparations for
the third campaign, 222. Marches to
Seringapatam, and makes a night attack
on Tippoo's defences, 223. Tippoo sues
for peace, which is granted on severe
terms, 223

Cotton, influx of wealth from the export of,

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by Mahmood of Ghuzni, 21. Despoiled
by Mahomed Ghory, 26
Cuttack, ceded to the Mahrattas, 146
Conquered from them by Lord Welles-
ley, 269. Disturbances created by op-
pressive landlords and oppressive laws,
339. Tranquillity restored by justice,
340. Desolating famine of 1866, 528

DALHOUSIE, Lord, Governor-General,

457. Outbreak at Mooltan, 458. Pro-
ceeds to the north-west, 461. After the
victory of Guzerat annexes the Punjab,
469. His excellent arrangements for its
government, 470. Drawn into a war
with Burmah, 473. His admirable orga
nisation of the expedition, 474. Pro-
ceeds in person to Rangoon to quicken
General Godwin, 475. Annexes Pegu,
475. Annexes Satara, 476. And Nag-
pore, 477. And Jhansi, 478. Sanctions
the extinction of the royal title and pri
vileges of the nabob of the Carnatic, 479.
Settles all difficulties with the Nizam,
480. Ordered from home to incorporate
Oude, 483, His administrative reforms;
cheap and uniform postage, 484. The
Ganges Canal, 484. Railroads, and his
great minute, 485. The electric tele-
graph, 487. Character of his adminis-
tration, 487. His premature death, 487
Darius, his conquests in India, 9
Deccan, its early history, 15. First inva-
sion by the Mahomedans, 30. The
greater part subdued by them, 32. Lost
to the Crown of Delhi, 36. Rise of the
Bahminee kingdom, 42. Its greatest
minister Mahomed Gawan, 45. It is
broken up and five kingdoms estab-
blished, 43. Incessant wars between
them, 44. Completely conquered by
Aurangzebe, succeeded by universal
anarchy, 89. Peace and tranquillity res-
tored by Lord Wellesley, 247
Delhi, the Hindoo king of, 20.

Becomes

the Mahomedan capital, 27. Captured
and plundered by Timur, 87. The new
city, built by Shah Jehan, 74. Plun-
dered by Nadir Shah, 105. Amount of
booty carried away, 105. Plundered by
the Abdalee, 134. Lord Lake enters it,
268. Besieged by Holkar, defended by
Colonel Ochterlony, 273. Occupied by
the insurgent sepoys, 496. Protracted
siege and capture of it, 510
Dewanee of the three Soobahs granted to
Clive by the emperor, 161
Doondhoo Punt, the Nana Sahib, leads
the revolt at Cawnpore, 501. Chased

out of India, and dies in Nepal, 518
Dost Mahomed, Lord Auckland dethrones
him, 398. He flies to Bokhara, 398.
Returns to Afghanistan and defeats
English troops, and surrenders, 403.
Restored to liberty, 481. Joins the
Sikhs, 461. His army chased out of the
Punjab, 468

Dumas, Governor of Pondicherry, en-
larges French power; creates a sepoy

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army; baffles the Mahratta general, and
is created a nabob, 113
Dupleix, his great genius; builds up
Chandernagore; governor of Pondí-
cherry; assumes oriental state, 114.
His vast ambition; espouses the cause
of Chunda Sahib, and makes him nabob
of the Carnatic, 118. Receives Mozuffer
Jung with great pomp, 119. He is at
the height of his glory, 122. Superseded
by his Company, and returns to Paris,
125. His disgraceful treatment and
end, 125.

EAST INDIA COMPANY incorporated

by Queen Elizabeth; their first enter-
prises, 138. Their establishments at
Madras, Bombay, and Bengal, 139.
They make war on the emperor, and
are obliged to retire, 140. All their
establishments in Bengal abandoned,
141. They are invited back and build
Calcutta, and fortify it, 142. A rival
Company established in London, its
disastrous results, 142. The two Com-
panies united, 143. Send an embassy to
Delhi, and obtain privileges which are
nullified by Moorshed Kooly Khan,
144. Loss of Calcutta, and their estab-

lishments extinguished in Bengal, 147.

Regain their power, and make a nabob
of their own, 152. Acquire the Dewa-
nee, 161. Gross abuses of their Govern-
ment and interference of Parliament,
173. The Regulating Act, 174. Placed
under the Board of Control, 213. Char-
ter of 1793, 233. Charter of 1813, and
loss of their Indian monopoly, 309.
Charter of 1833 and loss of China trade;
exist only as a political agency, 380.
Charter of 1853; its modifications, 488.
Their power and possessions trans-
ferred to the Crown, 520; their local
army extinguished, as well as their
lavy, 524

Edwardes, Lt., raises a force and defeats
Moolraj, 460. His great energy and
services during the mutiny, 498
Electric telegraph established, 486
Elgin, Lord, Governor-General; his death,
526
Ellenborough, Lord, Governor-General,
419. His first proclamation, 423. His
subsequent vacillations; recalls the
troops from Afghanistan and then
orders them to advance, 425. His jubi
lant proclamation, 429. His eccentric
proclamation of the gates, 430.
sembles a large army at Ferozepore, 431.
Annexes Sinde, 435. Is present at the
battle of Maharajpore, 440. The muti-
nous army of Gwalior extinguished, 440.
He is recalled; character of his admin-
istration, 441

As-

Elphinstone, General, in command at

Cabul; his utter incompetence results
in the ruin of the army, 409
Elphinstone, Mr. Mount Stuart, his em-
bassy to Cabul, 293. Twice offered the

GUN

Governor-Generalship and declines it

382

England, General, repulsed at Hykulzyę

423

FEROKSHERE, emperor, in bondage to
the Syuds; grants privileges to the
Company, 144. Disallows the concession
made to the Mahrattas by one of the
Syuds, who marches to Delhi and
murders him, 98

Ferozeshuhur, the battle of, 448
Fox's India Bill; its provisions; rejected
by the House of Lords, 212

Francis, Mr., his violent opposition to
Mr. Hastings, 178. The duel, 181
Franks, General, conquers the southern
portion of Oude, 516

French, the, arrive in India; found Pondi-
cherry, 112. War with the English, 114.
Become supreme in the Carnatic, 121.
And at Hyderabad, 129. Lose Chander-
nagore, and all power in Bengal, 150.
Pondicherry captured and their power
in the Deccan extinguished, 132
Fullerton, Col., his successful expedition
frustrated by the Madras Council, 203

GHAZEE-OOD-DEEN blinds the em
peror and deposes him, 134
Ghiljie dynasty, 30

Gholam Kadir plunders Delhi and blinds
the emperor; captured by Sindia and
hacked to pieces, 230

Ghore dynasty, 23

Ghuzni becomes independent, 19. Pil-
laged by Alla-ood-deen, 24. Extinction
of the dynasty, 24. Taken by the
English, 397. The fortifications blown
up, 427

Gillespie, General, quells the Vellore
mutiny, 286. Captures Fort Cornelis,
303. Killed at Kalunga, 314
Goddard, General, his expedition across
the Continent, 187. His treaty with
the Gaikwar, 187. Captures Ahmeda-
bad, chases Sindia and Holkar, 188.
His unsuccessful expedition to Poona,
189

Golconda, becomes an independent king-
dom, 34. Absorbs the Hindoo state of
Telingana, 57. The celebrated minister
Meer Joomla, 71. The capital taken by
treachery, 89. The dynasty extin
guished, 89

Gough, Sir Hugh, (afterwards Lord
Gough), defeats the Mahrattas at Maha
rajpore, 440. Battles of Moodkee, 447
And Ferozeshuhur, 448. Engagement
at Ramnuggur, 462. Battle of Chillian-
walla; he is recalled, 465. Victory at
Guzerat, 467

Gour, destruction of the city, 56
Guzerat, becomes an independent king.
dom, 39. Occupied by Humayoon;
annexed to the empire by Akbar, 40
Guntoor Sircar, proceedings of
Madras Council regarding it, 193 The

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