Bengal, conquered by kings of
house of Ghor, 23; indepen-
dent in reign of Mahomed
Toghlak, 27; revolted in reign
of Mahomed Shah Sur, 36;
finally subdued by Akbar, 37;
Kings of, and extent of ter-
ritory, 42, 43; English fac-
tories in, 58; independent
after battle of Paniput, 70;
history of, from 1761 to 1774,
83.
Bentinck, Lord (Gov.-General),
formerly Governor of Madras,
war with Kūrg, 153; submis-
sion of Jodhpur Rājā, 154;
public works, 158; Maisūr go-
verned by East India Company,
Berar, dynasty of Imad Shah
in, 46; conquered by the
Nizam Shahi kings, 53.
Bhoja, ancient King of India, 9.
Bhopal, 142, 164.
Bijapur, dynasty of, 59; de-
stroyed by Aurungzib, 55.
Bijāyanuggur, kingdom of, 27;
conquered by the Mahomedan
kings of the Dekhun, 53.
Bombay, island of, with Sal-
sette obtained by the kings of
Guzerat, 44; ceded to the East
India Company, 58.
Bombay Presidency, history
of from 1761 to 1774, 90 et
seq.; speculative mania in, 210.
Brahmins, 11.
Būdhism, brief account of, 4, 6.
Burmah, wars with, by East
India Company, 148, 151, 180;
rebellion in, 209.
Canning, Viscount (Governor-
General), war with Persia,
188;
the great Indian Mutiny,
189; the Dumpy Mutiny, 195;
proclamation to the Oudh Ta-
lukdars, 198; rupture with
Sikkim Rājā, treaty with the
Nizam and with Burmah, 199;
waste lands order, 200; legis.
lative enactments passed, 201.
Castes, of the Hindus, 4.
Chronology of the Hindus, 2.
Clive, his career, 70, 72, 84.
Contemporaneous sovereigns
of England and Hindusthan,
table of, 80.
Cornwallis, Marquis (Gov.-
General,) war with Tippū
Sultan, 103; with the French in
India, 104; judicial reforms and
Permanent Settlement, 106; his
second appointment as Gov.-
General, and death, 123.
Dalhousie, Marquis (Gov..
General), war with the Sikhs,
178; with the Burmese, 180;
administrative reforms, 181,
183; annexation of Sattara,
Nagpur, and Jhansi, 181;
abolition of post of Nabob of
the Karnatik, 182; treaty with
the Nizam, 182; annexation
of Oudh, 183; Sonthal emeute,
185; death of Baji Rao, ex-
Peishwa, 186.
Danes in India, 59; sale of two
of their settlements, 176.
Darius, expedition of, to India,
Dekhun, what part of India so
called, 1; history of the early
dynasties of, 9; conquered by
Ala-u-din Khilji, 26; indepen-
dent in reign of Mahomed Togh
lak, 27; Bahmani Kings of,
30; great famine in, 50; com-
pletion of revenue survey in.
by Shah Jehan, 51; indepen-
dent after Battle of Paniput, 70.
Denison, Sir W. (provisional
Governor-General)," Umbeyla
Campaign, 205.
Dutch in India, their arrival,
41; rivals of the English, 52;
establish factories in Bengal,
59; defeated by the English,
75; lost their settlements of
Sadras, Pulikat, and Negapa-
tam, 96.
East India Company, first
establishment of, 48; firman
granted by Shah Jehan, 51;
factories established, 52; dis-.
putes with Aurungzib, 55;
progress till 1702, 58; from
1715 to 1746, 67; from 1746
to 1761, 72; interior manage-
ment of, and Regulating Act,
86; two Bills affecting the,
101; renewal of Charter in
1793, 107; in 1813, 133; in
1833, 155; in 1853, 185; dis-
solution of, 196.
Ecclesiastical
146, 151, 158, 167, 186, 202,
216.
Educational (statistics), 111,
145, 158, 186, 214.
Elgin and Kincardine, Earl
(Governor-General), Wahabi
conspiracy detected, 204.
Ellenborough, Viscount (Go-
vernor-General), war with Af-
ghānisthān, 168; with the
Mirs of Sindh, 169; with Sin-
dia (Gwalior State), 171.
English, their first visit to India,
40, 48.
Exhibitions, 216.
Famines in India-in the Dek-
hun, 50; in Lower Bengal, 85;
in Oudh and North-West Pro-
vinces, 157; in the North-West
Provinces, 198; in Orissa, 210.
Farokhsir (Mogul Emperor),
his reign, 63.
Firuz Toghlak (of Khilji) his
public works, 27.
French (East India Company)
establishment of, 59; progress
up to 1746, 68; up to 1761,
72; lose their settlements, 74;
Pondicherri and Mahé captured,
95; again captured, 104.
6, 17; their food, dress, birth | Khilji, house of, 26.
ceremonies, marriages, fune-
rals, 12, 13; system of Govern-
ment, criminal justice of, 13;
village system, commerce, 14;
personal appearance and cha-
racter of, 15, 16.
Hindusthan, of what part of
India it consists, 1.
Holkar, family of, 66; events
connected with, 91, 116, 125,
Khrishna, a deified Hindu hero,
3, 16.
Kutb-Shahi, dynasty, its kings
and extent, 60.
Humayun (Mogul Emperor),
his reign, 34, 35.
Imad Shah (in Berar) dynasty
of, 46.
India, extent, area, population,
and aborigines of, 1.
Indian Finance Ministers,
201, 213.
Jainism, brief account of, 7.
Jehandar Shah (Mogul Em-
peror), his reign, 62.
Jehangir (Mogul Emperor), his
reign, 46.
Jodhpur (see Marwar).
Jounpur, kingdom of, re-an-
nexed to Delhi by Behlol Lodi,
29; the kings of, 31;
tent, 31.
Karnata (kingdom of), conquered
by Ala-u-din Khilji, 26; inde-
pendent in reign of Mahomed
Toghlak, 27.
Karnatik, contentions in, 68;
Anwar-u-din the founder of the
Nabobs of the, 68; annexed to
the Madras Presidency, 120;
abolition of post of Nabob of
the, 182.
Kashmir, kingdom of, taken by
Akbar and made a Sūbah, 38.
Khandesh, kingdom of, inde-
pendent in reign of Mahmud
Toghlak, 27; conquered by Ak-
bar and made a Subah, 38;
kings of, and extent of terri-
tory, 45.
Lahore, the seat of government
of several of the Ghuznivide
princes, 22; a Subah in time
of Akbar, 38.
Languages (Indian), their di-
Lawrence, Sir John (Governor-
General), war with Bhotan,
207; conflict with the Wag-
hurs, Black Mountain cam-
paign, 208; Persia prevented
from seizing Bundur Abbas,
208; settlement of tenant-right
in Oudh, North-West Pro-
vinces, and Punjab 209; ad-
ministrative reforms, 211;
public works, 211; Legislative
enactments passed, 212.
Lodi, Mahomedan house of, 29.
Lunar races of the Hindus, 2.
Macpherson, Mr. John, Pro-
visional Governor-General, 102.
Madras, factory established at,
52; factories in the Presidency
of, 58; history of from 1761 to
1774, 88.
Magada, kingdom of, what it
comprised, 8, 17.
Maha-bharat, Hindu epic poem,
3.
Mahmud of Ghuzni, his twelve
invasions of India, 19; extent
of his territories, 20.
Mahomedanism, rise of, 10.
Mahomedans, first appearance
of in India, 10.
Mahomedan India, extent of,
in reign of Mahomed Ghori,
24; invasion of by Tamerlane
(Teimur), 27; by Bāber, 29.
Mahomedan period, notes on,
77 et seq.
Mahomed Shah, (Mogul Em-
peror), his reign, 63.
Mohamed Toghlak, his reign,
Malabar, kingdom of, conquered
by Mobarik Khilji, 26.
Malwa, kingdom of, independent
during the Ghor dynasty, 24;
rebelled, but subdued in reign
of Mahomed Toghlak, 27; in-
dependent in reign of Mahmud
Toghlak, 28; conquered by
Bahadur Shah, king of Guzerat,
31; by Shir Shah Sur, 35; but
afterwards regained indepen-
dence, 36; conquered by kings
of Guzerat, 44; taken by Ab-
bar, 39; over-ran by the Ma-
rattas, 66; ceded to the Peish-
wa, 67.
Marattas, rise of the, 55;
earliest mention of them, 60;
their history up to 1751, 65;
up to 1761, 71; under the
Peishwas to 1774, 91.
Marwar, invaded by Shir Shah
Sūr, 35, 38, 154.
Masulipatam, conquered by the
Bahmani kings, 30.
Menu, institutes of, 4, 16.
Metcalfe, Lord (provisional
Governor-General), 159.
Mēwar, (Province of), conquered
by Bāber, 33; by Shir Shah
Sür, 35, 38.
Minto, Earl (Governor-Gene-
ral), war with Amir Khan,
127; capture of Bourbon and
Mauritius, and of Java, 128;
treaty with Runjit Singh, 129;
embassies to Kabul and Persia,
130; effects of the permanent
settlement, 132.
Missions (Protestant) in India,
69, 112, 123, 172, 187, 205.
Moguls, irruptions of into India,
26 et seq.
Multan, a Subah in time of Ak-
bar, 38.
Muskat, affairs in, during Sir
John Lawrence's administra-
tion, 208.
Mutinies (in India), first among
East India Company's Sepoys
in 1764, 83; among officers of
the Bengal army, 84, 109; at
Vellore, 125; in the Madras
army, 128; at Barrakpur,
149; in the Madras army, 172;
of Bengal Sepoys, 186; Great
Indian Mutiny of 1857, 189;
the Dumpy Mutiny, 195.
Mysore (Maisúr), formerly a
province of the kingdom of
Bijāyanuggur, 82; new king-
dom created, 113; manage-
ment of, assumed by East
India Company, 155; great
improvements in, 186; Maisūr
Grant, 200.
Nadir Shah (king of Persia),
his invasion of India, 64.
Nipal, war with East India
Company, 136; rise of Gurkha
power in, 142.
Nizam (of the Dekhun), its
founder, 64; events connected
with the, 110, 126, 143, 182,
199.
Nizam Shahi (dynasty), kings
and extent, 53; extinguished
in 1637, 53.
Orissa, great famine and inun-
dation in, 210.
Ostend East India Company
previously established by an
Emperor of Germany, de-
stroyed, 68.
Oudh, a Subah in time of Akbar,
38; origin of the late reigning
family of, 67; alienated from
the Mogul empire, 69; inde-
pendent after the battle of
Paniput, 70; treatment of the
Begums of, by Warren Hast-
ings, 100; a new Nabob Vizier
created by the English, 111;
disturbances in, 119, 155, 164;
annexation of, 183; proclama-
tion to Talukdars of, 198;
settlement of land tenure in,
209.
Paniput, battle of, 70.
Parsi community in India, 166.
Pindaris, their first appearance
in India, 72; they attack
British territory, 131. (See
Hastings, Marquis).
Portuguese in India, rise and
history of, 31, 41, 51, 67.
Powar, rise of the family of, 66.
Punjab, revolt of, in reign of
Mahomed Toghlak, 27; revolt
of, in reign of Mahomed Shah
Sūr, 36; overrun by Sikhs, 62;
ceded to Ahmed Shah Abdāli,
69; independent after battle of
Paniput, 70. (See Sikhs and
Marquis Dalhousie.)
Purānas, of the Hindūs, 5.
Rājāmundri conquered by the
Bahmani kings, 30.
Rājpūts of Chittore, 10; states
of, generally, 38.
Rāma, a deified Hindū hero, 3, 16.
Revenue (Indian) statistics, 118,
127, 135, 145, 172, 177, 186,
202, 213.
Roe, Sir Thomas, his embassy
to the court of Jehangir, 48.
Rohilla war, conduct of Hastings
in the, 87.
Salivahāna, age of, 9.
Sanitaria hill, in India, 151, 158,
Schools of Hindu philosophy, 15.
Seleucus, invasion of India by, 8.
Shah Jehan (Mogul emperor),
his reign, 49.
Shore, Sir John (Governor-
General), his non-interfering
policy, 109; concessions to the
Indian army, 109; creates a new
Nabob Vizier in Oudh, 111.
Sikhs, rise and origin of, 62;
nearly extirpated in reign of
Farokhsir, 63; their history
from 1761, 129; they take
Multan and Kashmir, 144 ;
death of Runjit Singh, 165;
war with East India Company
and subsequent annexation of
the Punjab, 173, 178.
Sikkim, rupture with the Rājā
of, by the East India Company,
Sindh, first invasion of, by the
Mahomedans,10; twice invaded
by Altamsh, 25 by Firuz
Toghlak, 27; by Humayun,
34; conquered by Akbar, 37;
treaty with Mirs of, 141; war
with Mirs of, 169, 172.
Sindia, rise of the family of, 66;
their independence, 107; Dow-
lut Rao succeeds Mahādāji
Sindia, 111; war with the
East India Company, 114;
treaties entered into, 126, 142;
dissensions among the family
of, 154; war with the East
India Company, 171.
Singapore, town of, founded in
1819, 145.
Siwuji, founder of the Maratta
dynasty, 55. (See Marattas.)
Slave King dynasty, 25.
Solar race of the Hindūs, 2.
Sungskrut language, 6.
Sur, family of, 35.
Sutti (or widow sacrifice), 13;
discouraged by Akbar, 40;
abolished by proclamation, 153;
partly suppressed by several
independent native princes, 176.
Syud dynasty, 28.
Taj Mehal, at Agra, built by
Shah Jehan, 51.
Takshūk (or serpent race) of
ancient India, 3.
Tamerlane (or Teimūr), inva-
sion of India by, 27.
Tanjur State, conflict with the
East India Company in 1749,
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