PAC

PACHECO'S defence of Cochin, first de-
monstrates the superiority of Euro-
pean over native troops, 109
Pandya dynasty, in the Deccan, 16
Paniput, Baber's victory, 45. Akbar's vic-
tory. 51. The Abdalee's victory, 137
Peel, Captain, of the Shannon; his naval
brigade, 507

Persia, embassy sent by Lord Wellesley,
252. And by the Crown, 294. And by
Lord Minto, 295

Peshwa, the authority of the, established
by Ballajee Wishwanath, 97. Extin-
guished by Lord Hastings, 330
Pigot, Lord, Governor of Madras, placed
in confinement by the Council; decision
of the Court of Directors; his death, 192
Pindarees, their origin; their leaders, 304.

Their system of plunder, 305. First

inroad into the British districts, 306;
Lord Minto's representations to the
Court, 306. Lord Hastings's repeated
representations, 318. Their expedition
in 1815, 322. In 1816, 324. Lord Hastings
takes the field, and exterminates them,
334

Pitt's India bill, its provisions, 213
Pondicherry founded, captured by the
Dutch, restored at the peace, 112, Be-
sieged by Admiral Boscawen without
success, 117. Captured in 1761 by
Coote and demolished, 132. Captured
in 1779, 194. Captured in 1793, 229.
Pollock, General, forces the Khyber pass
and reaches Jellalabad, 420. Evades
Lord Ellenborough's orders to retire
424. Defeats Akbar Khan, at Tezeen;
occupies Cabul, 427

Portuguese, double the Cape, 106. Vas-
co de Gama discovers India at Calicut,
107. Second expedition under Cabral;
third expedition under Vasco, 108. Al-
meyda defeats the Egyptian and Guze-
rattee squadrons, 109. Albuquerque
Viceroy, founds Goa, establishes Portu-
guese authority over 12,000 miles of sea
coast; superseded and dies, 110. The
Portuguese occupy Ceylon, and Macao
in China, 110. They are established in
Bengal, 111. Resist the whole Mahome-
dan power of the Deccan, 111. They
shrink into insignificance, 111
Pottinger, Lieut. afterwards Major, his de-
fence of Herat, 393. Envoy at Cabul, on
the assassination of Sir W. Macnaghten,
makes a new treaty, 415. Delivered up
as a hostage. 416. His energy at Ba-
meean, 428

Its

Press, liberty of, destroyed by Mr. Adam,
346. Its condition under Lord Am-
herst and Lord W. Bentinck, 383.
freedom legalised by Sir C. Metcalfe,
383
Procession of the captured Sikh guns,
453

Punjab; Jeypal, king of, defeated by Su-
buktugeen, 19. Consolidated under
Runjeet Sing, 290. Revolutions on his
death, 443. The army becomes all
powerful, 444. And murders the prime

SAT

minister, and plunders Golab Sing, and
Moolraj, 445. Ranee Jhindun regent,
launches the army on the British terri-
tories, 446. The four engagements, 451.
Sir Henry Hardinge enters it, and con-
fiscates the Cis Sutlej province and Jul-
lunder, and alienates Cashmere. 453.
Treaty of 9th March, 1846, and of De-
cember, 454. Revolts in 1848, 460. Con-
quered a second time and annexed, 469.
Admirable administration under Lord
Dalhousie; suppression of slavery, da-
coity and thuggee, 471. Roads, canals,
and other improvements, 471. Loyalty
during the mutiny; contributes to the
suppression of it, 509

RAILWAYS, projected by Sir Mac-

donald Stephenson; encouraged by
Lord Hardinge, 485. Organised by Lord
Dalhousie; his memorable minute, 485.
State railways projected by Lord Mayo,
530

Rajpootana, desolated by Holkar and
Ameer Khan, and invokes British pro-
tection, 284. Which is granted by Lord
Hastings, 327

Rajpoots, their early struggles with the
Mahomedans, 41. Defeated by Baber,
46. Join Akbar, and fight for him, 53.
Their struggles with Aurungzebe, 85
Ramayun, the epic, its legends, 6
Ramu, his birth and exploits, his expe-
dition to Lunka or Ceylon, 7

Rana Sanga, raja of Oodypore; his exten-
sive power, and his army, 41. Defeated
by Baber, 46

Ravunu, the sovereign of Lunka slain by
Ramu, 7

Red Sea, expedition to, 253

Rent free tenures, their origin and cha-
racter, 359. Resumption completed by
Lord William Bentinck, 359

Roe, Sir Thomas,envoy to the Mogul court

65

Rose, Sir Hugh, his campaign during the
mutiny in Central India, 513

Runjeet Sing, consolidates his power in
the Punjab, 290. Makes inroads into
Sirhind; Mr. Metcalfe obliges him to re-
tire, 292. He signs the treaty of Umritsir,
293. Annexes Cashmere, Mooltan, and
the Derajat, 367. French officers disci-
pline his army, 368. He is defeated at
Noushera, 368. Sends a present of a
shawl tent to the Queen of England; re-
ceives a present of dray horses in return,
369. His power and resources in 1830,
369. Meeting with Lord William Ben-
tinck at Roopur, 370. Seizes Peshawur,
385. His designs on Sinde defeated, 386.
Signs the tripartite treaty, 391. His
death and character, 399

SAMBAJEE, son of Sevajee, succeeds him,
his worthless character; barbarously
murdered by Aurungzebe, 90
Satara, a portion of the Peshwa's territory

SEE

granted to the family of Sevajee. 340.
On the failure of heirs, it is annexed to
the Company's territories, 477
Seeta, the wife of Ramu, carried off by
Ravunu, recovered by her husband, 7
Seetabuldee, battle of, 332
Seraj-ood-dowlah, soobadar of Bengal,
sacks Calcutta, 147. Defeated by Colonel
Clive at Dumdum, 150. His intolerable
oppressions; conspiracy against him, 150.
Is defeated at Plassy and flies; is brought
back and murdered by Meerun, 152
Serampore Missionaries, their labours in-
terdicted on account of the Vellore
mutiny, 288

Serefraj Khan, soobadar of Bengal, sup-
planted by Aliverdy Khan, 145
Seringapatam captured, 246

Sepoys, their chronic insubordination; cause
of disaffection in 1856, 491
Sevajee, founder of Mahratta greatness;
his birth and early exploits, 78. His
conquests, and strength of his army,
at the age of 35; ravages the Mogul
territories, 80. Plunders Surat, 81.
Strikes the coin in his own name; he
creates a fleet; signs the convention of
Poorundur, 81. Origin of the chout, 82.
Proceeds to the emperor's court; is be-
leaguered, and escapes, 82. Revises his
institutions, 82. Proclaims his inde-
pendence and is crowned, 85. His expe.
dition to the south and his fanaticism,
86. His death and character, 87
Shah Alam, emperor, as Ali Gohur, endea-
vours to recover Bengal, is defeated by
Colonel Calliaud, 154. Cedes the Dewa-
nee to the Company, 161. Blinded by
Gholam Khadir, 230. Rescued from
misery by Lord Lake, 268

Shahjee, the father of Sovajee, his origin

aud progress; obtains the jageers of
Poona and other districts; his expedi
tion to the south, where he acquires
jageers, 77

Shah Jehan, the valiant son of Jehangeer,

Un-

65. He revolts and is defeated; recon-
ciled to his father, 66. And ascends the
throne, 69. His extravagant expendi-
ture, 69.
Commences war in the
Deccan, 69. Extinguishes the kingdom
of Ahmednugur; subjects Beejapore to
tribute; recovers Candahar, 70.
successful expedition to Balkh ; loses an
army in the Afghan passes; loses Can-
dahar, 71. His four sons and their
characters, 72. His serious illness, 72.
Struggles for the throne, 73. His re-
covery, but too late; Aurungzebe enters
the capital and deposes him, 74. Sur-
vives the deposition six years; his char-
acter, his magnificence; the peacock
throne; his admirable administration,
and immense wealth, 74
Shao, chief of the Mahrattas, 96
Shelton, Brigadier, his abominable temper,
and its deplorable effects, 411
Shere Shah, establishes the Soor dynasty,
47. Defeats the king of Bengal; defeats
Humayoon at Cunouge, and mounts the

SIN

throne of Delhi, 48. His cruelty s
Raiseen; captures Chittore; killed at
Callinger; his character, and extraordi
nary genius, 49

Shere Sing, deserts to Moolraj, 460. Pro-
claims war against the English, 460.
Fights General Thackwell at Sadoolla-
pore, 462. Fights Lord Gough at Chil-
lianwallah, 465. Defeated at Guzerat,

467

Shore, Sir John, opposes the Permanent
Settlement, 227. Becomes Governor-
General, 233. His feeble policy in the
affairs of the Nizam, 234. He quails
before the second mutiny of the Eure-
pean officers, and is superseded, 237.
His courage in dealing with the affairs of
Oude, 288. Created a peer on his return
to England, 239

Sikhs, their origin, a religious sect, and
political commonwealth; their spiritual
guides; driven back by Bahadoor Shah
to their hills, 95

Sinde, subjugated by the Mahomedans,
18. Submits to the emperor Akbar, 57.
Treaty with Lord William Bentinck,
371. The Ameers coerced by Lord
Auckland, 396. Treated unjustly by
Sir Charles Napier, 432. Defeated at
Meeanee, 435. Sinde annexed by Lord
Ellenborough; remarks on the transac-
tion, 435

Sindia, rise of the family, 101. Mahda-
jee, totally defeated by Colonel Camac,
188. Makes peace with Hastings, 190.
Negotiates the treaty of Salbye which
increases his consequence, 190. Becomes
minister and commander-in-chief of the
emperor, and obtains possession of the
Dooab, 229. Plunders the Rajpoots;
defeated by them; defeats them, 230.
De Boigne organises a great Sepoy
army, 231. Sindia proceeds to Poona,
becomes all powerful with the young
Peshwa, 231. De Boigne defeats Hol-
kar; death of Sindia, 232

Sindia, Dowlut Rao, defeated by Holkar;
defeats Holkar, 261. Joins the Peshwa,
and defeated by Holkar at Poona, 262.
Joins the raja of Nagpore against the
English, 264. Ahmednugur captured
by General Wellesley; battle of Assye
266. General Lake captures Allygurb,
267. Beats Sindia's troops at Lasware,
and at Delhi, 268. Reduced to extre
mities, he signs the treaty of Sirjee
Anjengaum, 270. His hostile attitude
on the failure of the siege of Bhurtpore,
275. Resolves, in conjunction with
Nagpore, to absorb Bhopal; Lord Has-
tings prevents it, 319. Agrees to assist
in rooting out the Pindarees, 325. New
treaty forced on him by Lord Hastings,
329. Dies in 1827, 437. State of the
Cabinet in 1843; the army domineer over
the Government, 437. Lord Ellen-
borough insists on its disbandment
439. Battles of Maharajpore and Pun-
niar, 440. New treaty, 441. The 5th
Sindia obliged to fly from (walior

SLA

during the mutiny; restored to his
throne, 515

Slave dynasty, its establishment, 27. Its
extinction, 30

Sleeman Major, suppresses the Thugs,
376. Reports on the state of Oude,
481

Sobraon, battle of, 451

Somnath, its magnificent temple de-
spoiled by Mahmood of Ghuzni, 22
Soojah, Shah Jehan's second son, viceroy
of Bengal; his struggles for the throne,
is defeated; flies to Arracan and is put
to death, 73

Stuart General, at Madras, his dilatory
conduct on the death of Hyder, 201.
At length marches to Cuddalore; is
baffled by the genius of Bussy, 202.
Rescued from peril by the peace be-
tween France and England; put under
arrest at Madras, 202

Subuktugeen, ruler of Ghuzni, attacked
by Jeypal and defeats him, 19

Suffrein, the great French admiral, fights
four battles with the English; all in-
decisive, 199

Sumachar Durpun, the first native
printed newspaper, 338

Supreme Court; its establishment, its
encroachments on the Government,
which is paralysed, 206. Interposition
of Parliament, 206. Amalgamated with
the Sudder Court, 525

Syud Ahmed, a Mahomedan fanatic, ob-
tains possession of Peshawur, but is
expelled, 368

Syuds, dynasty of the, 37

TAJ MEHAL, built by Shah Jehan as a
mausoleum for his queen, 74
Tallikotta, great battle of; destroys Hin-
doo power in the Deccan, 59
Tanjore, the principality founded by
Shahjee, 77. Besieged by Lally, but the
siege raised, 130. First interference of
the Madras authorities, 118. At the in-
stance of Mahomed Ali they fleece the
raja and depose him; the Court of
Directors restore him, 191

Tantia Topee superintends the massacre of
the Europeans at Cawnpore,502. Marches
to relieve Jhansi; defeated by Sir Hugh
Rose, 514. Takes possession of Gwalior,
515. Is chased, captured, and executed,
519
Teetoo Meer's insurrection near Calcutta,
361

Telingana, Hindoo kingdom in the Dec-
can, 16

Thackwell, General, fights Shere Sing at
Sadoollapore, 463

Timur, or Tamerlane, invades India, 36.
Defeats the emperor; lets his soldiery
loose on Delhi for five days; proclaims
himself emperor and recrosses the
Indus, 37

Tippoo, plunders the garden-houses of
the Madras gentry, 169. He invests

WEL

Mangalore, and captures it after a siege
of nine months, 203. Attacks the lines
of the raja of Travancore, an ally of the
English, 219. Lord Cornwallis declares
war; first campaign abortive, 220.
Second campaign fails, 221. The third
successful, and Tippoo resigns half his
territory and pays three crores, 223.
His hostility to the English; the Mau-
ritius proclamation, 240. Lord Welles-
ley takes the field against him; he
makes a stand at Malavelly, 245. Is be-
sieged at Seringapatam; the town cap-
tured: Tippoo killed, and his dynasty
extinguished, 246

Toder Mull, raja, Akbar's great finance
minister, 62

Toghluk Ghazee, founds the Toghluk
dynasty, 33

Toghluk Mahomed, his accomplishments;
his military skill; his insane eccen-
tricities, 33. Extends his power beyond
all previous princes, 33. Sends an
army to China which perishes; en-
deavours to remove the capital to
Dowlutabad, 34. His caprices create in-
surrections; Bengal revolts; the whole
of the Deccan revolts, 35. The dynasty
decays, and four independent kingdoms
established, 35

Toghluk Feroze, extraordinary number of
his edifices, 35

WELLESLEY, Lord, Governor-General,
239. Condition of India, 239. Tip-
poo's hostile proclamation, 240. Resolves
to coerce him; orders the Madras army
into the field; its weakness, 241. He
breaks up the policy of isolation; nego-
tiates with the Nizam,242. Extinguishes
the French force at Hyderabad, 243.
Seringapatam captured, and Hyder's
dynasty extinguished, 246. Mediatizes
the nabob of the Carnatic, 251. Sends
an expedition to Egypt, 253. Takes over
half the Oude territory, 255. Concludes
the treaty of Bassein with the Peshwa,
262. Encourages private trade, 257. Es-
tablishes the college of Fort William,
256. Censured by the Directors, resigns,
258. Is asked to remain another year;
consequences of this request, 259. War
with Sindia, and the raja of Nagpore, 263.
War with Holkar, 272. Alarm at home,
276. He is superseded, 276. Character
of his administration, 277. Coudemned

Abdul Rahman proclaimed Ameer of
Northern Afghanistan, 539. Total over-
throw of Ayoob Khan by, at Candahar,
542. His character as a ruler, 542,
549. Annual subsidy granted to, 547.
Publicly announces his alliance with the
British Government, 547

Afghan Boundary Commission, appoint-
ment of, 545. Success of their negotia-
tions, 546

Afghanistan, agreement as to boundaries
of, between England and Russia, 531.
Unsettled state of, 532. Russian em-
bassy received at Cabul, 535. English
embassy turned back, 535. Ultimatum
despatched, and war declared against,
535. Capture of Ali Musjid, Jellalabad,
and Candahar, 536. Two candidates for
the throne of, 537

Ahmed Khel, the battle of, defeat of the
Afghans at, 538

Ayoob Khan, at the battle of Maiwand,
539. Lays siege to Candahar, 539. The
siege abandoned, 540. Total rout of his
forces at Pir Paimal, 540. Defeats the
Ameer's forces, and again occupies Can-
dabar, 542. Totally overthrown by Abdul
Rahman, 542. His surrender to the
British, 548

Baroda, corrupt administration of Gaik-
war of, 532. Attempts to poison British
Resident, 532. He is deposed, 532
Bengal and Behar, threatened famine in
1874, 531

Black Mountains, punitive expeditions to,
550, 551

Bombay, famine in 1877, and great loss of
life, 534. Generous efforts in England,
534

Bradlaugh, Mr, at the Indian Congress at
Bombay, 551

Browne, General Sir Samuel, captures Ali
Musjid, 536

Buckingham and Chandos, Duke of, ap-
pointed Governor of Madras, 533
Burmah, Upper, difficulties in, with King
Theebaw, 542. Disturbed state of, 547-8.
Improved condition of, under British
rule, 549

Burroughs, General, at the battle of Mai-
wand, 539

Cabul, grand durbar held by General
Roberts at, 537. Wali Mohammed ap-
pointed military governor of, 537

Campbell, Sir George, Lieutenant-Gover-
nor of Bengal, his precautionary meas-
ures against threatened famine in Ben-
gal and Behar, 531. Receives the ap-
proval of Viceroy and Home Govern-
ment, 531

Candahar, the kingdom of, Shere Ali de-
clared ruler of, 538. Disaffection of the
Bengal soldiers in, 538. Intentions of
the Imperial Government regarding, 538.
Ayoob Khan advances with a large body
of troops towards, 539. After the battle
of Maiwand, the British troops forced
to retreat in disorder to, 589. Besieged
by Ayoob Khan, 539. General Roberts
starts to raise the siege of, 539.
celebrated march on, 540. The town and
surrounding country evacuated, 540.
Again occupied by Ayoob Khan, 542.
Cashmere, Maharajah of, abdication of
the, 550

His

Cavagnari, Major, concludes a treaty with
Yakoob Khan, 536. Is knighted, 536.
His murder, along with the members of
the embassy, 537
Chin-Lushai country, the, military opera-
tions in, 550

Clarence, the late Duke of, his visit to
India, 551

Congress, the National, first meeting of,
held in Calcutta, 549
Connaught, the Duke of, his resignation
as Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay
army, 551

Dufferin, Lady, service rendered by, in
behalf of the women of India, 550
Dufferin, Lord, succeeds Lord Ripon as
Viceroy, 547. Subsidises Abdul Rah-
man, 547. His resignation, 550. Im-
portant results of his administration,
550. Created Marquis of Dufferin and
Ava, 550

East Indian Railway purchased by Govern-
ment, 541

Empress of India, assumption of title of,
by her Majesty the Queen, 534. Pro-
claimed at Delhi on 1st January 1877,
534. Release of 16,000 prisoners, 534
Gwalior, the fortress of, restored to Sindia,
548

Harbours, fortification of, 551

Hobart, Lord, Governor of Madras, his
able administration, 532. His death in
1875, 532

ILB

Ilbert Bill, the, nature of, 544. Outbreak
of race feeling and animosity caused by,
544. The bill withdrawn, 544
India, Imperial census of 1881, 542. Of
1891, 553

Indian Civil Service, the enactment that
a certain proportion of natives might be
appointed to, 541

Indian railways taken over by English
Government, 537

Jowakis, expedition against the, 535
Jung Bahadoor of Nepaul, his death, 535
Jung, Sir Salar, death of, 543

Khiva, Russian expedition in 1873 against,
530. Surrender of the Khan, and sub-
mission to the Czar, 530
Lytton, Lord, Governor-General, 533.
Cotton duties gradually repealed, 533
Madras, famine in, 1877, with great loss of
life, 534. Liberal assistance from Eng.
land towards relief, 534
Maiwand, the battle of, 589
Manipur, the State of, disturbance in, 552.
Murder of British officers in, 552.
ture and punishment of the leaders, 552
Mulhar Rao, Gaikwar of Baroda, corrupt
administration of, 532. Attempts to
poison the British Resident, 532. De-
posed after trial by a commission, 532
Nagas, the tribe of, depredations com-
mitted by, and final subjugation of, 541
Napier, Lord, Governor of Madras, suc-
ceeds by law to Lord Mayo, as Governor-
General, 530

Native soldiers sent to Malta, 535

Cap-

ZUL

Rupee, fall in the value of, 548
Russia and England, agreement between,
as to boundaries of Afghanistan, 531
Russians, the, continued advance of, to-
wards the borders of Persia and Afghan-
istan, 545. Their advance into Afghan
territory, 545. Defeat of the Afghans
by, at Ak Tepe, and annexation of Penj.
deh, 546. Advance of, into British
Indian and Afghan territory, 551
Shere Ali Khan, Ameer of Afghanistan,
banishes his eldest son, 532. Receives a
Russian embassy at Cabul, 535. Declines
to receive an English embassy, 535. War
declared against him, 535. His flight
from Cabul, and death at Balkh, 536
Stewart, General, captures Candahar, 536
Strachey, Sir John, Finance Minister, pro-

poses a tax for emergencies of famine,
534. His blundered Budget, 541
Temple, Sir Richard, his successful meas
ures to counteract the famine in 1874,
531. Gigantic nature of the transport
employed, 531

Theebaw, king of Upper Burmah, his
vicious character, 542. His treatment
of British subjects, 547. A force sent
against him, to which he surrenders,
547. His dominions annexed to the
British Empire, 547

Tibet, dispute between the Imperial Gov-
ernment and, respecting Sikkim, 549.
British assert their rights by force, 549.
By treaty with China, British supremacy
acknowledged, 550

533. Visits Maharajahs of Madras, 583.
Presides over investiture of Star of India
at Calcutta, 533. Enters Delhi in state,
533. Visits Nepaul, the Maharajahs of
Puttiala and Gwalior, and Holkar at In-
dore, 538. Embarks at Bombay on 18th
March, 538. His letter to Lord North-
brook, 583

Penjdeh, annexation of, by Russia, and
its results, 546

Queen's Jubilee, the, celebration of, 549
Railways, construction of, 551
Ripon, Lord, succeeds Lord Lytton as
Viceroy, 538. His judicious reforms,
543. His resignation, 547

Roberts, General, occupies Peiwar Pass,
536. Captures Cabul, 537. Evacuates
the city and occupies Sherpur, 587. His
celebrated march on Candahar, 540

Wolseley, Lord, his expedition to Egypt,
an Indian contingent sent to take part
in, 543

Yakoob Khan, succeeds his father as
Ameer of Afghanistan, 532. Treaty con-
cluded with, 536. His flight to the Brit-
ish camp, 537. His throne declared
forfeited, and made a prisoner of state,

587

Zulfikar Pass, its seizure by the Russians,
546. Afterwards restored to the Afghans,

546