A.
Adoption, question of, 175;
present aspect, 177
Afghanistan, Elphinstone's mission, 103;
Russian advances, 143;
first Afghan war, 146;
insurrection at Cabul, 149;
British losses in the Khyber Pass, 150;
end of war, 152;
vulnerable frontier, 186;
death of Dost Mohammed Khan, 290;
fratricidal war, 291;
Shere Ali Khan, ib.;
second Afghan war under Lord Lytton, 296
Agnew, Mr. Vans, murdered at Multan, 161
Agra, captured by General Lake, 95;
presidency formed, 128;
water way, 171;
isolation during the sepoy mutinies, 215, 231
Ajmere, acquired by the British, 120
Akalis, Sikh fanatics, 156, 157
Akbar Khan, son of Dost Mohammed, heads revolt at Cabul, 149;
murders Sir William Macnaghten, 150
Alam, Shah, Padishah, seeks British protection, 95
Alexander the Great, defeat of Porus, 163;
his invasion of India, 225
Alighur, fortress of, captured by Lake, 94
Aliwal, battle of, 159
Allahabad, at the junction of the Jumna and Ganges, 171;
position during the sepoy revolt, 215, 217, 220, 238;
mutiny and massacre, 241;
fortress besieged, ib.;
relieved by General Neill, 242
Amherst, Lord, Governor-General, 120;
first Burmese war, 121;
Bhurtpore war, 122
Amir Khan, an Afghan Pindhari, 105;
founds principality of Tonk, 112, 113;
surrenders to the British, 115
Amritsar, city of, 155
Andaman Islands, 294
Anderson, Lieut., murdered at Multan, 161
Anson, General, at Simla, 216;
movements at the revolt of Delhi, 216-271;
his death, ib.
Appa Sahib, defeated by the British, 117;
flight from Nagpore, ib.;
succeeded by his grandson, ib.
Arakan, annexed by the British government, 122, 169
Arcot, captured by Clive, 34;
suppresses mutiny at Vellore, 100
Arrah, besieged by rebels, 266;
relieved by Major Eyre, 267
Asia, Central and Northern, the cradle of India, 142;
rise of Nadir Shah, 143;
rise of British power in, 145
Asiatics of India, better phrase than "native," 186;
characteristic craft, 240;
officials, 300
Asiatic rulers, acknowledge British supremacy, 301;
British political officers in India, 302
Assam, overrun by Burmese, 121;
acquired by the British, 122;
tea cultivation, 123
Assaye, battle of, 94
Attock, fortress of, captured by Dost Mohammed Khan, 163
Auckland, Lord, Governor-General of India, 141;
declares war against Dost Mohammed Khan, 145;
sends expedition against Cabul, 146
Aurangzeb, the Great Mogul, 21;
stops supply of saltpetre to the British at the bidding of Turkey, 25;
his death, 31;
persecutes the Sikhs, 155;
detested by the Sikhs, 222
Ava, see Burma
B.
Baird, Sir David, commands storming party at Seringapatam, 86
Bala Hissar, fortress of, 148
Barlow, Sir George, provisional Governor-General, 98;
political half measures, 99;
sacrifices revenue in Bundelkund, 101;
annuls protective treaties, 104
Barnard, Sir Henry, commander-in-chief in 1857, advances against Delhi, 218;
his death, 230
Baroda, Gaekwar of, 112
Barrackpore, cantonment and park, near Calcutta, 192;
story of the Lascar and Brahman, 194;
sepoy agitation, 196;
incendiarism, 197;
outbreak of Mungal Pandy, 201;
disbandment of 19th Native Infantry, 202;
of the 34th Native Infantry, 205
Barwell, Mr., member of the Council of Warren Hastings, 65
Bassein, efforts of the British at Bombay to acquire from the Mahrattas, 72;
treaty of 1802 concluded with the Peishwa, 92, 119 note
Bayley, Sir Edward Clive, Home Secretary to Sir John Lawrence, his knowledge of Indian history, 288
Behar, a province of Bengal, 42-44, 127, 129;
mutinies at Patna, Dinapore, and Arrah, 266
Benares, ceded to the British, 73;
turbulent population, 235;
triumph of Mr. Gubbins, 236;
mutiny of sepoys, 237
Bengal, early English trade, 25;
British supervisors, 55;
terrible famine, ib.;
British administration, 58;
zemindari system of land revenue, ib.;
no village communities, 128;
people, 190
Bengal army, see Sepoys
Bentinck, Lord William, recalled from Madras, 101;
Governor-General, 123;
wise and just administration, ib.;
civil and judicial reforms, 126;
appoints Asiatic officials, 127;
settles land revenue in the North-West Provinces, 131, 167;
popularity, 140;
appoints Asiatic deputy collectors, 166
Berhampore, sepoys at, 192;
mutiny against greased cartridges, 198
Berar, British relations with, 72;
vacillations of the Raja, 95; see Nagpore
Bhotan, beyond Northern India, expedition to, 293
Bhurtpore, Jhat Raja of, pays a heavy fine to the British, 98;
destruction of the fortress, 122
Bithoor, palace of Nana Sahib, 244;
destroyed by Havelock, 259
Bombay, old fortress and town, 24;
interference in Mahratta affairs, 73;
bravery of sepoys, 118;
acquires the territories of the Peishwa, 134;
stagnation, 139;
want of roads, 172;
state education, 278;
cotton speculations, 287;
failure of Bank, ib.
Brahmans, hereditary schoolmasters, astrologers, and priests, 129;
survival of, 131;
position in the Bengal army, 188, 191
Britain, Great, an Asiatic power, 140, 180, 276
Buller, Sir Arthur, his opposition in legislative council, 281
Bundelkund, lawless condition of, 101;
chiefs of, defy the British, ib.;
peace restored, 102;
condition, 255, 289 note
Burma, aggressive demands of the officials, 120;
invade British territory, 121;
end of first war, 122;
second war, 168
Burnes, Sir Alexander, at Cabul, 148;
environed by Afghan mob, 149;
murdered, ib.
Buxar, battle of, 52
C.
Cabul, see Afghanistan
Cachar, under British rule, 122;
tea cultivation, 123
Calcutta, founded, 28;
captured by the Nawab of Bengal, 35;
Black Hole tragedy, 38;
recaptured, 42;
auction sales of lands, 60;
British garrison of, 186, 192
Campbell, Sir Archibald, at Rangoon, 121
Campbell, Sir Colin, commander-in-chief, Bengal army, 271;
sets out for Lucknow, ib.;
reaches Residency, ib.;
brings away besieged, ib.
Canara, landholders and land revenue of, 133
Canning, Lord, Governor-General, 181;
war with Persia, ib.;
settlement with the Delhi family, 182;
uneasy about Oudh, ib.;
alarm of the sepoys at Barrackpore, 192;
mutiny at Berhampore, 200;
outbreak at Barrackpore, 201;
disaffection in Oudh, 202;
disbandments at Barrackpore, 202, 205;
mutiny at Meerut, 206, 208;
orders General Anson to Delhi, 217;
refuses to abandon Peshawar, 229;
offends non-official Europeans at Calcutta, 279;
turns the executive council of India into a cabinet, 281;
departure and death, 285
Carnatic in Southern India, conquered by Aurangzeb, 22;
war between Great Britain and France, 32;
interference of the Nawab, ib.;
rival Nawabs, 33;
invasions of Hyder, 74;
acquired by Lord Wellesley and incorporated with the Madras Presidency, 87, 88
Cashmere, conquered by Runjeet Singh, 103;
sold by Lord Hardinge to Golab Singh, 160;
relations with the British government, 289
Caste in Bengal army, 191;
its disadvantages, ib.
Cavagnari, Sir Louis, murdered at Cabul, 297
Cawnpore on the Ganges, British cantonment in Lord Lake's time, 94;
position, 171, 175;
outbreak of the sepoy mutinies, 233;
story of Cawnpore, 243;
peril of General Wheeler, 244;
palace of Nana Sahib at Bithoor, 245;
suspense, 248;
mutiny, 251;
treachery of Nana Sahib, 252;
revolting cruelties, ib.;
massacre, 254;
advance of Havelock, 256;
story of the "well," 258;
defeat of Wyndham, 272;
victory of Sir Colin Campbell, ib.
Central India, feudatory Asiatic states and chiefships, 289 note
Central Provinces, under Home Office, 297
Chamberlain, Neville, his flying column in the Punjab, 224;
services at the siege of Delhi, 227, 230
Charnock, Job, imprisoned and scourged by the Nawab of Bengal, 25;
flies to Madras, 27;
founds Calcutta, 28
Charters, see East India Company
Child, Sir Joseph, frames a municipal corporation for Madras, 16;
makes war on the Great Mogul, 25;
plans the protection of British trade in India by three great fortresses, 26;
his humiliation, 27
Chillianwalla, battle of, 163, 164
China, East India Company's trade with, 138
Chout, paid by the Mogul to the Mahrattas, 28;
plunder of Bengal and the Carnatic for non-payment, 32;
Mahratta demands on the Nizam, 82;
demanded by Holkar, 96
Clavering, General, appointed member of council, 66;
insolence to Warren Hastings and Elijah Impey, 67, 68
Cleveland, Augustus, humanises the Sonthals, 78
Clive, Robert, saves British interests in India by the capture of Arcot, 34;
expedition to Calcutta after the Black Hole disaster, 40;
victory at Plassy, 42;
instals a new Nawab, 43;
relieves the Mogul Prince Imperial, 45;
refuses the post of Dewan to the Great Mogul, ib.;
offers it to William Pitt, 46;
Governor of British settlements in Bengal, 53;
accepts the Dewani, 54;
returns to England, 55;
inferior authority to that of Warren Hastings, 56
Code, Penal, 281
Colvin, Mr. John, besieged in fortress of Agra, 220, 231 note
Combermere, Lord, captures fortress of Bhurtpore, 122
Company, see East India
Cornwallis, Lord, appointed Governor-General, 78;
proclaims the perpetual settlement, 79;
judicial reforms, ib.;
war against Tippu, 80;
Governor-General a second time, 98;
dies, ib.
Councils, executive and legislative, see Government
Courts, see Judicature
Currie, Sir Frederic, Resident at Lahore, 161
D.
Dalhousie, Lord Governor-General, 161;
enters on the second Sikh war, 163;
annexes the Punjab, 164;
introduces British administration, 166;
second Burmese war, 168;
annexation of Pegu, 169;
progressive policy, 170;
public works, ib.;
roads, 171;
railways, 173;
telegraphs, 174;
Ganges canal, ib.;
annexation policy, 175;
question of adoption, 176;
annexation of Jhansi and Oudh, 177;
opens the legislative council of India, 179;
leaves India, 180
Deccan, definition of the term, 2;
Mohammedan Sultans of Golconda, 22;
bad roads, 172
Delhi, capital of the Mogul empire, 44;
flight of the Prince Imperial to Calcutta, ib.;
proposed British expedition stopped by Clive, 53;
defended by Ochterlony against Holkar, 95;
occupied and plundered by Nadir Shah, 144;
water-way to Calcutta, 173;
family of the last of the Moguls, 182;
occupied by the rebel sepoys from Meerut, 208;
the city and its surroundings, 210;
massacre of Europeans, 213;
explosion of the magazine, 214;
rebel successes, 216;
avenged, 219;
the siege, 221;
the capture, 230;
imperial assemblage at, 295
Denison, Sir William, Provisional Governor-General, 286;
returns to Madras, ib.
Dharna, sitting in, 81;
abolished, ib.
Dhuleep Singh, nominal sovereign of the Punjab, 157
Dinapore, European regiment at, 186;
mutiny at, 266
Dost Mohammed Khan, ruler of Afghanistan, 145;
defeated by the British, 146;
a prisoner at Calcutta, 147;
returns to Cabul, 152;
recovers Peshawar during second Sikh war, 162, 163;
helped by the British in the Persian war, 181;
death, 290;
wars between his sons, 291
Dravidian races, 142
Dumdum arsenal, near Calcutta, 186;
musketry school at, 192
Dupleix, French Governor of Pondicherry, 32;
his brilliant success, 33;
appointed Nawab of the Carnatic, ib.;
ruin of his schemes by Clive, 34;
return to France, ib.;
disgrace and death of, ib.
Durand, Sir H., Foreign Secretary, 288;
relations with Sir John Lawrence, 289;
proposed restoration of Mysore, 292
Dutch, settlements of, 9
E.
East India Company, charter and factories, 1;
English house at Surat, 4;
territory and fortress at Madras, 7;
Fort St. George, 12;
charter from James II. for municipal corporation, 16;
settlement at Bombay, 24;
at Hughly, 25;
war against the Great Mogul, 26;
submission, 27;
war with France, 32;
saved by Robert Clive, 34;
Black Hole tragedy, 35;
Plassy, 42;
exasperated by their civil servants at Calcutta, 53;
accepts the office of Dewan for Bengal, Behar, and Orissa, 54;
orders Warren Hastings to assume the direct administration, 56;
false position of the Company in Bengal, 69;
first war against the Mahrattas, 71;
Fox's hostile India bill, 75;
Pitt's Board of Control, 76;
trial of Warren Hastings, 77;
wars of Lord Wellesley, 84;
conquest of Mysore, 86;
annexation of the Carnatic, 88;
subsidiary alliances, 89;
second Mahratta war, 94;
recall of Lord Wellesley from Bengal, 98;
recall of Lord William Bentinck from Madras, 101;
war against Nipal, 108;
Pindhari and Mahratta wars, 110;
paramount power in India, 120;
first Burmese war, ib.;
administration of Lord William Bentinck, 123;
stages in the relations between the Company and the Crown, 135;
old East India House, 136;
patronage under Pitt's bill, 137;
charters of 1813 and 1833 granted by Parliament, 138;
abolition of licences, ib.; constitutional changes, 139;
appointment of Lord Macaulay, ib.;
charter of 1833, its evil results, ib.;
an Asiatic power, 141;
first Sikh war, 154;
second Sikh war, 161;
acquisition of the Punjab, 165;
second Burmese war, 168;
splendid administration of Lord Dalhousie, 170;
question of adoption, 175;
annexation of Oudh, 177;
end of charter of 1833, 178;
competitive examinations for the Indian civil and new legislative council of India, 179;
sepoy revolt, 185, 232;
end of the East India Company, 275
Edinburgh, Duke of, visit to India, 295
Education in India, 277;
state system, 278;
Bible teaching, 279
Edwardes, Herbert, defeats rebels at Multan, 161, 162;
opposes withdrawal from Peshawar, 229
Elgin, Lord, sends British regiments to Lord Canning, 233;
Viceroy and Governor-General, 286
Ellenborough, Lord, Governor-General, 151;
hears news of Khyber Pass disaster, ib.;
interferes in Gwalior, 152;
recalled, 154;
proposes removal of the Delhi family, 182
Elphinstone, Mountstuart, his mission to Cabul, 103;
Resident at Poona, 112;
negotiations with the Mahratta Peishwa, 113;
destruction of his library, 116;
Governor of Bombay, 134;
conservatism in India, 299;
its failure, 300
Empress of India, proclamation of, 295
F.
Ferozshahar, battle of, 158, 159
Foreign Office, Indian, relations with Asiatic states, 289;
misleading term, 290 note
Fort St. George, see Madras
Fort William, see Calcutta
Francis, Mr. Philip, member of Bengal Council, reputed author of the Letters of Junius, 66;
jealous hatred of Warren Hastings, ib.;
bitter charges against Hastings and Impey, 67, 68;
denounces appointment of Impey to the Sudder, 70;
fights a duel and returns to England, 75
Frere, Sir Bartle, Governor of Bombay, 286;
his career, 287
Frontier tribes on the north-west, 225
G.
Gaekwar of Baroda, 112, 289 note
Ganges canal, 174
Ganges, river, 171, 175
George III., his hostility to Fox's India Bill, 137;
accepts presents from Warren Hastings, 296
Ghorka, conquest of Nipal, 106;
war against British government, 108-110
Gillespie, Colonel, commands garrison at Arcot, 100;
suppresses mutiny at Vellore, 101
Goa, the capital of Portuguese India, 2
Goddard, Colonel, leads an expedition from Calcutta to Bombay against Mahratta country, 73
Godwin, General, commands expedition to Burma, 169
Golab Singh buys Cashmere from Lord Hardinge, 160
Goojerat, battle of, 164
Gough, Sir Hugh, commands army in Gwalior, 153;
his victory at Maharajpore, 154;
battles at Moodki and Ferozshahar, 158;
at Sobraon, 159;
Chillianwalla, 163;
Goojerat, 164
Government, old merchant rule in Madras, 5, 8, 12;
municipal experiments, 14, 16;
Nawab rule in Bengal, 43;
offer of the Dewani, 45;
Great Mogul installed in British factory at Patna, 48;
collision between the British and the Nawab in Bengal, 49;
Clive's double government, 54;
Warren Hastings a sovereign ruler, 56;
British zemindar at Calcutta, 59;
appointment of British collectors, 61;
members of council at Calcutta appointed by Parliament, 65;
quarrels, 66;
Governor-General in Council empowered by parliament to make laws, 69;
changes under the charter of 1833, 135;
executive council remodelled by Lord Canning, 280;
legislative councils of 1854 and 1861-6, 179, 284;
relations of legislative and executive, 293;
British India a school for Asiatics, 297
Govind, Guru, 155;
founder of the Sikh Khalsa, 156
Graves, Brigadier, commands station at Delhi, 209, 210;
preparations to resist rebel sepoys from Meerut, 211;
escapes to Flagstaff Tower, 213
Gubbins, Mr. Frederic, his municipal reforms at Benares, 235, 236
Gwalior, fortress of, captured, 73;
interference and war by Lord Ellenborough, 152
Gwalior contingent formed, 154;
mutiny of, 228, 229;
victory of, at Cawnpore, 272
H.
Hands, Right and Left, Hindu antagonism in Southern India, 10, 11;
see also 39 note
Hardinge, Lord, Governor-General, 154;
commands the army at Moodki, 158;
at Sobraon, 159;
settles the government of the Punjab under a regency, 160;
returns to England, 161
Harris, General, commands British army against Mysore, 86
Hastings, Warren, appointed Governor of Bengal, 56;
virtually sovereign of Bengal, Behar, and Orissa, ib.;
previous career, 57;
introduces British administration, 58;
dealings with the zemindars and land revenue, 59, 61;
judicial administration, 62 creates the Sudder Court, 64;
surprised by the arrival of three new members of council, and the creation of the Supreme Court, 65;
appointed Governor-General, ib.;
quarrel with Philip Francis, 66;
trial and execution of Nundcomar, 67;
inaction, ib.;
collision between the Supreme Court and the Sudder, 68;
points in dispute, 69;
settled by parliament, ib.;
alleged corruption of Elijah Impey, 70;
war with the Mahrattas, 71;
plottings of three Asiatic powers, 73;
Hyder invades the Carnatic, 74;
interference of parliament, 75;
India bills of Fox and Pitt, ib.;
returns to England, 76;
trial in Westminster Hall, ib.;
case of the Oudh Begums, ib.;
services of Hastings, 77, 78;
presents to George III., 296
Hastings, Marquis of, Governor-General of India, 107;
war against Nipal, 108;
converted from non-intervention to imperialism, 110;
suppresses Pindhari raids and Mahratta disaffection, 111;
humiliation of Sindia, 113;
submission of Amir Khan of Tonk, 114;
treachery, defeat, and flight of the Peishwa, 115;
dealings with Nagpore, 116;
defeat of Holkar, 117;
capture and conquest of the Peishwa, 118, 119;
renewal of protective treaties in Rajputana, 120
Havelock, General, his career in India, 256;
advance on Cawnpore during the sepoy mutinies, ib.;
hangs a deputy collector, 258;
enters Cawnpore after the massacre, ib.;
advances towards Lucknow, 259;
retreats, 266;
second advance with Outram, 268;
relief of the garrison, 269;
death, 272
Herat, besieged by Persia, 145;
defended by Eldred Pottinger, 151;
second siege by Persia, 181
Hindus, protected against European soldiers at Madras, 14;
rebel against the house tax, 15;
municipality in the 17th century, 16;
abolition of Suttee, 123;
overawed by Thugs, 125;
village communities in the
North-West Provinces, 128;
in the Madras Presidency, 131;
ancient colonisation, ib.;
ancient migrations from Central and Northern Asia, 142;
accept Sikh religion in the Punjab, 155;
absence of roads in Hindu kingdoms, 172;
belief in adoption but reluctant to adopt, 175;
caste system, 188, 191;
worship of the cow and horror of beef, 195;
forced conversions to Islam, 196;
hostility of the Brahmans at Benares, stamped out by Mr. Gubbins, 235;
Hindu culture, 298;
child marriages, ib.;
temper, ib.;
social despotism, 299;
failure of hereditary officials, 300;
successful training, ib.
Holkar, Jaswant Rao, the bandit, 92;
drives the Peishwa from Poona, ib.;
occupies Indore territory, 93;
relations with the British, 95;
defiance, 96;
campaign of Lord Lake, ib.;
Monson's disastrous retreat, 97;
joined by Sindia, etc., ib.;
flies to the Punjab, 99;
confined as a madman, ib.;
dies of cherry brandy, 111;
see Indore
Holkar, see Indore
Holwell, Mr., elected Governor of Calcutta, during the siege, 38;
sells Calcutta lands by auction, 60
Hughly, old Portuguese fortress at, 19;
demolished in punishment for slave dealing, 20;
British factory at, 25;
Mogul oppressions, ib.;
British retreat to Madras, 27
Hyder Ali, of Mysore, desolates the Carnatic, 74
Hyderabad, disbandment of French battalions, 85;
subsidiary force at, 113
I.
Impey, Sir Elijah, first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at Calcutta, 65;
charges against, 70
Indore, revolt of the army of Holkar, 115;
defeated at Mehidpore, 117;
subsidiary alliance, 118;
outbreak during the mutinies, 272;
political relations, 289 note
J.
Java, wrested from the Dutch, 104;
restored to Holland, ib.
Jeypore, Raja of, fights for princess of Oodeypore, 105;
asks British government to arbitrate, 106
Jhansi, massacre at, 176, 255
Jodhpore, Raja of, contends for princess of Oodeypore, 105;
asks British to arbitrate, 106
Judicature, justices of the Choultry at Madras, 13;
mayor's court, 31;
British zemindar at Calcutta, 59;
magistrates and judges, 62;
courts of circuit and appeal, 63;
chief court or Sudder, 64;
patriarchal system, ib.;
supreme court of barrister judges, 65;
collisions, 67, 68;
judicial reforms of Lord Cornwallis, 79;
of Lord William Bentinck, 126;
Asiatic judges, 127;
amalgamation of Supreme Court and Sudder in the existing High Courts, 284;
Asiatic judges and magistrates, 285;
proposed changes, 300
Julinder, mutiny at, 227
K.
Kali, goddess, worshipped by the Thugs, 124;
Calcutta a corruption of Kali-Ghat, 125 note
Keane, Sir John, captures fortress of Ghazni, 146;
created Baron of Ghazni, 147
Khalsas, the Sikh, 155;
army of, 156;
sent to plunder India, 158;
defeated at Sobraon, 159;
broken up, 164
Khyber Pass, British disaster in, 151;
faces Peshawar, 225
Korygaum, glorious action of sepoys, 118
Kumaon, ceded to the British by Nipal, 109
L.
Lacouperie, Professor Terrien de, on the right and left hand castes, 39 note
Lahore, Council of Regency at, 161;
sepoy mutinies at, 223, 224;
European strength, 243
Lake, General, commander-in-chief of the Bengal army, 94;
his campaign in Hindustan, 94, 95;
attacks Holkar, 96;
fails to reduce Bhurtpore, 97, 98
Lawrence, Sir Henry, Resident at Lahore after first Sikh war, 161, 164;
chief commissioner of Oudh, 202;
suppresses a mutiny at Lucknow, 216;
holds a public durbar for rewarding sepoys, 259;
preparations for the defence of Lucknow, 260;
wounded at Chinhut, 261;
dies, 265
Lawrence, John, chief commissioner of the Punjab, 165;
patriarchal rule, 166;
land settlement, 167;
telegram to General Anson, 217;
executions at Peshawar, 226;
sends Punjab "Guides" to Delhi, ib.;
proposes to withdraw from Peshawar, 228;
overruled by Lord Canning, 229;
disarms all Bengal sepoys in the Punjab, ib.;
created a baronet and afterwards a peer, 286 note;
Viceroy and Governor-General, 286;
yearly migrations to Simla, 288;
relations with Sir Henry Durand, 289;
leaves India, 293;
burial in Westminster Abbey, 294
Legislation, no code of laws, 13;
powers of, granted to the Governor-General in Council, 69;
legislative council created in 1833 under the charter, 139;
new legislative council of 1854 under Lord Dalhousie, 179;
new Penal Code, 180;
new legislative council of 1861-2, 284;
relations of cabinet and council, 293;
proposed changes, 301
Lucknow, capital of Oudh, description of, 203;
the British Residency, ib.;
first mutiny suppressed by Sir Henry Lawrence, ib.;
further durbar for rewarding loyal sepoys, 259;
general mutiny, 261;
hostility of the city, 263;
disaster at Chinhut, ib.;
British Residency besieged by mutineers and rebels, 264;
death of Sir Henry Lawrence, 265;
anarchy in the city, ib.;
retreat of Havelock, 266;
desperate defence, 267;
advance of Havelock and Outram, 268;
triumphant entry, 269;
final relief of Sir Colin Campbell, 271
Lumsden, Sir Peter, his mission to Candahar, 181
Lytton, Lord, Viceroy, 295;
proclaims Her Majesty as Empress of India, 295;
the second Afghan war, 296
M.
Macaulay (Mr., afterwards Lord) appointed legal member of the Council of India, 139;
drafts the Penal Code, 180
Macnaghten, Sir William, British minister at Cabul, 146, 147;
his difficulties, 148;
murdered by Akbar Khan, 149, 150
Macrae, Mr., Governor of Madras, in the olden time, 31
Madras, foundation of fortress, 7;
growth of Fort St. George and Black Town, 8;
wars of the Right and Left Hands, 10;
first Hindu town under British rule, 13;
Asiatic revolt against European taxation, 14, 15;
corporation founded, 16;
trade in slaves, 18;
abolished and revived, 21, 22;
flourishing private trade, 23;
Governors Pitt and Macrae, 31;
Madras captured by the French, 32;
restored, 33;
village communities of Southern India, 131;
creation of zemindars, 132;
establishment of ryotwari, 134
Maharajpore, battle of, 154
Mahrattas, raids on the Mogul empire quieted by the payment of "chout," or black-mail, 28;
origin of Mahratta power, 71;
rise of the Peishwa and his feudatories—Sindia, Holkar, and the Gaekwar, 72;
first British war against the Mahrattas, 73;
refuse the British alliance, 89;
rise of Sindia, 92;
acceptance of British suzerainty by the Peishwa, ib.;
campaigns of Wellesley and Lake, 94, 95;
Holkar's defiance and successes, 97;
non-intervention, 99;
disaffection, 111;
hostility, 115;
final establishment of British supremacy, 116, 119;
see also Sindia and Holkar
Malcolm, Sir John, sent on missions to Persia, 91, 103;
negotiations with the Mahrattas, 112, 113;
defeats Holkar, 117;
captures the Peishwa, 119
Mayo, Lord, Viceroy and Governor-General, 294;
his tragic death, ib.
Meerut, sepoy mutinies, 206-212
Mehidpore, battle of, 117
Metcalfe, Charles, his mission to Runjeet Singh at Lahore, 102;
Governor-General, 140
Minto, Lord, Governor-General, 101
Mogul, empire in India, 2;
his vengeance on the Portuguese at Hughly, 20;
conquers the Deccan, 21;
breaking up, 31;
enthronement of a Great Mogul in the British factory at Patna, 48;
settlement of Lord Clive, 54;
flight to Delhi with the Mahrattas, 57;
a pensioner of the British government, 95;
makes common cause with the rebel sepoys, 209, 216;
banishment to Rangoon, 231 note
Mohammedans, proportion of, in the Bengal sepoy army, 191;
conversion of Hindus by force, 196, 210;
revolt of Delhi, fanatics preaching rebellion, 220;
capture of Delhi, 231
Moira, Lord, Governor-General, 110;
see Hastings, Marquis of
Monro, Sir Hector, victory at Buxar, 52;
takes possession of Oudh, 52
Monson, Colonel, disastrous retreat from Holkar, 97, 98
Moodki, battle of, 158
Mornington, Lord, see Wellesley, Marquis of
Mulraj, Sikh governor of Multan, his revolt, 161;
murder of two British officers, ib.;
surrenders, 164
Munro, Thomas, his career, 133, 134;
his conservatism, 299
Munsifs, or civil judges, appointed, 80
Mutinies, see Sepoy
Mysore, Raja, restored to the throne of Mysore, 87
Mysore, conquest of, by the British army, 86;
restoration of a Hindu Raja, 87;
Mohammedan mutiny at Vellore, 100, 188;
brought under British rule, 221;
restored to Hindu rule, 292
N.
Nadir, Shah, checkmates Russia, 143;
invades India, 144;
an Asiatic Napoleon, ib.
Nagpore, 111;
plottings against the British government, 116;
annexed by Lord Dalhousie, 176
Nana Sahib, a protÉgÉ of the ex-Peishwa of the Mahrattas, 245;
his preposterous claims against the British government, ib.;
pertinacity and cunning, 246;
pretended loyalty at Cawnpore, 249;
deludes the British, 250;
unpopularity with the Bengal sepoys, ib.;
joins the sepoy mutineers, 251;
parleying and perfidy, 253;
massacre of Europeans, 254;
his triumph, ib.;
his terrors, 255;
his army defeated by Havelock, 257;
massacre of women and children, 258;
flight into Oudh, ib.
Nanuk Guru, founder of the Sikh religion, 154;
his teaching, 155
Napier, Sir Charles, defeats Amirs of Sind, 152;
supersedes Lord Gough, 164
Natives, see Asiatic
Neill, Colonel, his advance towards Allahabad and Cawnpore, 234;
delayed at Benares, 238;
at Allahabad, ib.;
restores order, 242;
joined by Havelock, 256
Newars, Buddhist people of Nipal, 106
Nicholson, John, the sainted warrior, 227;
worshipped by the Sikhs, ib.;
crushes the rebel sepoy brigade from Sealkote, 229;
mortally wounded at Delhi, 231
Nipal, Ghorka conquest of, 106;
aggressions on British territory, 107;
war, 108;
peace, 110
Nizam of the Deccan, 33, 82;
disbandment of his French battalions, 83;
accepts subsidiary alliance with the British government, 89;
political relations, 290 note
Non-intervention, policy of, 82;
sad results, 99;
bad effects in Rajputana, 106;
in the Punjab, 158
Northbrook, Lord, Viceroy and Governor-General, 295
North-West Provinces, land settlement of, 167;
revolt and suppression, 231
Nott, General, at Candahar, 146, 151;
advances on Cabul, 152
Nundcomar, his charges against Warren Hastings, 67;
arrested on charge of forgery, ib.;
trial and execution, ib.
O.
Ochterlony, Colonel, defends Delhi from Holkar, 97;
services in the war against Nipal, 109;
operations against Bhurtpore, 216
Orissa, a province of Bengal, 44, 127;
village communities, 129
Oudh, old aggressions on Bengal, 44, 47;
settlement of Lord Clive with the Nawab Vizier, 53;
case of the Begums, 76;
acquisitions of Lord Wellesley, 91;
annexation by Lord Dalhousie, 177, 178;
land settlement, 182;
disaffection of the talukdars, 183;
discontent of sepoys, 184, 190, 202;
Sir Henry Lawrence, chief commissioner, 203;
disaffection, 220;
mutiny and rebellion, 259, 262;
peace restored, 272;
causes of revolt, 273;
settlement of Lord Lawrence with the talukdars, 292
Outram, Sir James, his mission to the Persian Gulf, 181;
joins Havelock, 269;
chief commissioner of Oudh, 270
P.
Parliament, interference in India, 75, 135;
Charters of 1813 and 1833;
opening out trade, etc., 138;
creates the Legislative Council of India, and introduces competitive examinations, 178;
transfers India from the Company to the Crown, 275;
Council Act of 1861, 284
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
Pitt, Thomas, Governor of Madras, 29;
his diamond, 30
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
R.
Railways in India, 173, 174
Rajputana, princes and chiefs taken under British protection by Lord Wellesley, 95;
annulment of treaties by Sir George Barlow, 99;
plundered by the Mahrattas, ib.;
ravaged by Sindia and Amir Khan, 105;
renewal of protective treaties by Lord Hastings, 120;
relations with the British government, 289
Rajputs, in Bengal sepoy army, 191
Rama, the ancient hero of Oudh, 104
Rana, of Oodeypore, his descent, 104;
war for his daughter, 105;
her death, 106
Rangoon, expedition to, 121;
second Burmese war, 168
Rawlinson, Major, at Candahar, 146, 152
Revenue, Board of, 128
Rewah in Central India, 289 note
Roe, Sir Thomas, Ambassador to India, 135
Rohilcund, mutiny in, 228
Runjeet Singh, Sikh ruler of the Punjab, 102;
relations with the British government, 103;
attitude in the first Afghan war, 146;
death, ib.;
genius and depravity, 156;
family pensioned, 165
Russia menaces Persia, 141, 143;
driven back by Nadir Shah, 144;
cat's-paw policy, 145;
hold on Turkistan, 296
Ryotwari settlement, in Madras presidency, 133;
introduced into Bombay presidency, 134
S.
Sale, Sir Robert, sent to Jellalabad, 149;
besieged by Afghans, 151
Sealkote, mutiny at, 229
Secretary of State, Council of, 301
Sepoy army of India, 188;
old mutinies, 189;
separate armies of Bengal, Bombay, and Madras, 190;
high caste in old Bengal army, 191;
mutinies against greased cartridges, 193-274
Seringapatam taken by storm, 86
Shere Ali Khan, Amir of Afghanistan, 291;
estranged from British government, 296;
flight, ib.;
death, 297
Shore, Mr. John, presses for an inquiry into rights of ryots, 79;
Governor-General, 81
Sikh, kingdom founded by Runjeet Singh, 102;
review of Sikh history, 154-157;
first Sikh war, 158;
second Sikh war, 161;
annexed to British India, 165;
help the British against Delhi, 222, 226, 237
Sind, Amirs of, defeat of, 152;
their territories incorporated with the Bombay presidency, ib.
Sindia, Mahadaji, feudatory of the Peishwa, 71;
established a dominion in Hindustan, 72;
French battalions, 83;
rule of Daulat Rao, 90;
his vacillation, 93;
flight at Assaye, 94;
joins Holkar, 97;
returns to the British alliance, 98;
ravages Rajputana, 105;
secret negotiation, 111;
submission, 114
Sitabuldi Hill, battle on, 116, 117
Sivaji, hero of the Mahrattas, 71;
his tomb repaired, ib. note
Slavery, Hindu and Mohammedan, 18;
Mogul restrictions, 19;
Portuguese trade, ib.;
abolished at Madras, 22
Sobraon, battle of, 159
Sudder Courts, 127 note, 128, 284
Supreme and Sudder Courts amalgamated, 284
Surat, British traders at, 3;
factory, 4;
foreign guests, 5;
decay, 24
Suttee, abolished, 123
T.
Talukdars, or zemindars, 130;
discontent in Oudh, 220;
healed, 293
Tayler, Mr. William, quashes plot at Patna, 266
Thomason, Mr., Lieut.-Governor, land settlement finished, 167, 168;
constructs macadamised roads, 172
Thugs, atrocities of, 124;
hereditary gangs, ib.;
suppression, 125
Tippu of Mysore, first war against, 80;
alliance with the French, 84;
second war and death, 86;
family, 100, 283
Trevelyan, Sir Charles, protests against income tax, 283
Tucker, Mr. Robert, at Futtehpore, murdered, 257
Turkey, menaced by Russia, 141
V.
Vellore, sepoy revolt at, 100, 188
Village communities in the North-West Provinces, 128;
in the Madras Presidency, 131;
changes, 299
W.
Wales, Prince of, his tour in India, 295
Water-ways in India, 171
Wellesley, Marquis of, Governor-General, 82;
political system of subsidiary alliances, 89;
fears of France, 90;
mission to Persia, 91;
acquisitions from Oudh, ib.;
wars, 94;
reversal of his policy, 98
Wellington, Duke of, opposes recall of Lord Ellenborough, 154
Wheeler, General Sir Hugh, commands at Cawnpore, 244-249;
surrenders to Nana Sahib, 253
Willoughby, Lieut., blows up the magazine at Delhi, 214;
murdered, 215
Wilson, Mr. James, Finance Minister, 282;
proposes income tax, ib.;
death, 283
Y.
Yakub Khan, imprisoned by his father Shere Ali, 296;
succession and abdication, 297
Z.
Zemindars, status in Bengal, 59;
created in the Madras Presidency, 132
THE END.
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