to the Crown, 191; created an Earl, 192, 355, 362 Canouje, 36, 37, 39, 44, 64, 209 Cape Comorin, 6, 38, 39, 53, 61, 119, 173, 243 Cape Delgado, 345
Cape of Good Hope, 119, 252; (of
storms), 252, 266, 294-296, 346 Cape Guardafui, 347
Capua," the Indian, 166
Caravans, 311
Cardamons, 13
Carey, 28, 258
Carnac, defeats Scindiah, 147, 178; 197; 228, 360 Carnarvon, Earl of, 268
Carnatic, 40, 65, 74, 87; invaded, 99; Nawab of, 126-128, 129, 141, 177; Sovereign of, 259; French in, 261
Carnelions, 15
Carrying trade, 295
Central Indian Agency, 226-250, passim
Central Provinces, 18, 19, 24, 250, passim
Cereals, 272, 274, 275
Ceylon, 2, 27, 178; Dutch in, 255,
258, 267-296, 344, 349: pro- ducts, scenery, &c., 350, 351; Prince of Wales' visit, 351; area, population, &c., 352 Chairman of Scinde, Punjab and Delhi Railway Company, 379 Chalybes 172 Chamba (State), 221 Champain, Major, 376 Champion's Sepoys, 224
Chand Sultana, 86: put to death,
87; heroine of Deccan, 87 Chancellor of the Exchequer, 298
Cashgar (Kashgar), death of king Chanderi captured, 50
Cashmere, wool, 14, 18, 24, 27, 38,
39, 53, 61, 101; shawls, 105; erected into a tributary State, 187-197, 198, 218; valley of, 219-221, 324
Caspian Sea. 321, 322, 326, 329 Caste, 21, 26 n, 28, 29; or colour, 29
Cathedral, of Calcutta, 137; of Goa, 254; built by Begum Sumroo, 102
Catherine of Bragança, 122 Catmandoo, capital of Nepaul, 332, 333
Cattle, 286; wild, 359 Cavaree-Cavery, 133, 258 Cave temples, Ajunta and Ellora, 65; Kanhari, 124; Elephanta, 124, &c. Cawnpore, 78, 148, 149, 181, 811 "Celestials," the, 325 Celts, 20
Chandernagore, 101; taken, 140:
restored, 140, 259: taken, 262: Prince of Wales' visit, 264 Character of the people of India, 29, 30 Chardjuy, 327 Charil, 253
Charism, king of, 89
Charles II., 118, 122, 146
Charles V., 49, 50
Charlewood. Admiral, 298 Charnock, Job, 135
Chatanatti villages bought, 136 Chawura race, 364
Cheetore-siege, 83, 199, 200,
201, 202; destroyed, 203, 367 Chenab, 169 scarcely navigable, 379
Chesney, General, 298, 368, 370, 373
Cheyt Sing deposed, 179 Chichester, Earl of, 368 Chief Commissioner, 133, 176
Chiefships, Aboriginal, 197; Na-
tive, 245 Chikislar, 326
Chillianwalla, battle of, 188 Chimnajee, 255
Chin Killick Khan, 238
China, 27, 173, 269, 273, 277, 278; tea cultivation, 279, 280, 282, 283, 289, 296, 297, 322; and Russia, 325; obstructive, 331-335, 336, 339, 345 Chinchona, 12, 282
Chincona (Chinchona), cultivation of, &c., 282
Chinese, 280, 281; in Yunnan,
325; soldiers, 832-337, 338; in Java, 340
Clement, C. B., 285 Cleopatra, 54, 89
Climate of India, 8, 242 Clinton, Lord R., 368 Clive (Lord), 126, 127; takes Arcot, 127; his genius, 128; victor at Beypore, 129, 135, 136, 140; victor of Plassy, 141. 142; master of Southern India, 166; his renown, 177; leaves India, 178-257, 262, 265 Cloncurry, Lord, 368 Clothing, 270
Cloves, 348
Clytemnestra, n 364
Coal, 5, 12; England and Austria, 15; fields, 16, 270
Chingis Khan, 322, 323 (See Coast, Coromandel, 7
Coast, Malabar, 75
Coasting trade, 260
Cocoa-nut, oil, 10; and fibre, 11, 269
Cochin, 7, 125, 198, 238; State of, 243-253, 283
Code of Menu, 21, 29, 35 Cody Singh, 202
Coffee, 12, 242, 267, 269, 272, 281, 282, 339, 341, 348, 350 Colaba, 122
Colachel, 300
Colbert, 258
Colchester, Lord, 368 Cold season, 8
Cole. Hon. H. (M.P.), 368
Colebrooke, Sir E., 368
Colebrooke, Sir W., 368
Colebrooke's "Asiatic Researches,"
Colleges, Begum Sumroo's, 102
Colonial Office, 339
Colonies, 10
Colonization in India, 11
Colombo retaken, 256, 351
Colossus of the North, 220 Columbus, 252
Combermere, Lord-storms and
captures Bhurtpore, 134, 213
Commander-in-Chief, 176 Commander of the Faithful, 81 Commerce of India, passim- ancient routes of, 293, African, 347; Chamber of, 370, 371 Committee, Select, of the House of Commons, 330, 376 Commons, House of, 264, 298, 330, 374. 376 Communications in India, 288 and passim
Comorin, Cape (See Cape) Company, East India, 137, 139, 142, 362, passim Compensations of natives, 305 Concan, 12, 194, 198, 234, 355* Congeveran and Tanjore, 64 Conquest of Scinde, 312 Conservation of forests, 284 Constantinople, 293, 294, 330, 375
Consul, the first (Buonaparte), 264 Consuls, Her Majesty's, 376 Convent, Begum Sumroo's, 102 Coorg, 6, 11, 12, 18, 282 Coote, Sir Eyre, 75, 126, 128, 134, 177, commands Madras army, 178; dies, 179; victory at Wandewash, 262 Copeland, Alderman, 368 Copmanhurst, Friar of, 171 Copper, 335 Corbet, 168
Cornwallis, Lord, Governor- General-177, 180; settles land-tax-Mysore conquered- Policy of non-intervention, 181; Deposes Nawab of Oude- Leaves India, 181; again Governor-General-Dies, 182: character, 208-302 Cormorants, 357
Coromandel coast, 7, 63, 126;
war on, 129 n
Corrie, Archdeacon, 28
Cossack outposts, 326
Cossim, Meer, 153, 178 Cottages, 11
Cotton, 12; mills, 124; Mart, 125-168; fabric, 230, 266; Manchester in India, 266, 269, 270; American, 271; trade, 290, 348, 350
Court of Directors, 180, 182, 195 Court of Tehran, British Envoy at, 321
Courts of the Empire, 59; of India, 97
Crawford, R. W., 275, 368 Creeds, 25
Cremorne, Lord, 368 Creeping rose, 4 Crimean War, 266 Crocodiles, 356 Cromlechs, 20
Crown, the British-India trans- ferred to, 191
Crown, Imperial, 245; servants of,
Deccan, the, 12, 24, 25; war in,
47-53, 56, 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 70, 71, 73, 76, 83, 118, 121, 124, 134, 145, 181, 227, 228, 238, 261, 270 Deeg, battle of, 76 Deer, 14
Delhi, 2, 3, 25, 37, 39, 47, 49, 51,
53, 56, 57, 58, 60, 61, 64, 65, 67, 69, 76, 81, 95, 101, 102, 104, 118, 139, 145, 146, 155, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 166, 167, 180, 184, 190, 199, 200, 207, 208, 222, 223, 224, 227, 248, 289, 311, 316 Delhi gardens, 55
Dhuleep Singh (Maharajah), 186,
Diamonds, 15; mines, 226, 241 Dinkar Rao, Sir, 112, 229 Diodorus, 36
Directors, Court of, 180, 182, 184 Diu, 22, 124, 253, 256
Discipline, advantage of European, 127 Doab, 17 Dolmans, 20 Don, the, 294
Donoughmore, Earl of, 368 Dost Mahomed, 113, 185, 313, 314
Douglas Captain, 159 Dowlut Singh, 365 Dragoons, the 19th," 126, 131 Dranghdra, chief of, 236 n Dravidian, settlers, 20; races, 198 Duchesnois, 365 Ducks. 14
Duff, Major Grant, 73, 165, 373 Dufferin, Lord, 368 Dugshai, 166
Duke, Sir James, M.P., 368 Dundee, 273
Dundoo Punt, 77
Dunnajee Gaikwar, 74
Dunne, Colonel, M P., 368 Dupleix, M., 134, 259, 261, 262, 263, 265
Durbars, 105, 106 Durghetti, 84. 85 Durham, Bishop of, 368 Durjan Sal, usurper, 214
Dutch factory, 68; 119, 134, 177, 179, 182, 243, 252, 253, 255; fleet-shipping destroyed by British in the Hooghly, 257; 258, 259
Dyce Sombre, 101, 104 Dynasty, Mogul or Tartar, 49, 62, 64, 132, passim; Pathan, 121: Hyderabad, 71, 74; Gwalior, 227; Gaikwar, 232; Gupta, 297; Gurkha, 333, &c.
EAGLES, 14 Earthquakes, 339
East India Company, 68, 121, 122, 123, 162 n, 190; government of abolished, 195; 209, 249, 266, 339; end of, 362
East Indian Railway, 15, 275, 289 Eastwick, Mr., 375 Ebony, 11
Eden, Hon. Ashley, mission of, 334 Eden, Colonel W., 209
Edwardes, Sir Herbert, 168, 170, 314
Egypt, 282, 294 296, 347 Egyptians, 349 Elcho, Lord, 368
Elephant, 13, 39, 336, 356 Garden, 93
Elephanta, Caves of, 124 Elgin, Lord, 177, 192
Elizabeth, Queen, 49, 52, 156, 266, 293, 320
Ellenborough, Lord, 177, 185, 360 Elliot, Sir H., (n)81 Ellora, Caves, of 65 Elphinstone, surrenders, 313 Elphinstone, Mountstuart, 46, 62, (n) 81, 85 (n), 151, 182 Elphinstone, Sir J., 368 Elton, Englishman in Nadir Shah's service, 321 Emperor of Delhi, 102, 203, and passim Empire, British, 297
Of Ghengis Khan, 46 Ghuznite, 44
Of Hindostan, 54, 89 Of India, 191, 204
Empress of India, 153, 249, 310 England, 14, 16, 18, 50, 108, 256, 257, 258; Madras restored to, 261; 269, 274, 276
Commerce of, 277, 282, 284; postal service, 289; re-
venue of, 301, 316; influence in Persia, 320, 322; Shah visits, 322, 329, 330; Queen of, 362, 371, 375, 376, 377
English, 23; missions, 28, 33; conquests, 65, 66, 68: con- cessions to Dutch, 68; league of with Nizam and Mahrattas, 74; Resident slain, 102; 109, 111, 118; first ship, 118; make common cause with French, 120; power totters, 136; vic- tories, 143, 152; officers, 169; garrison, 170; victories, 206; Residency at Indore, 230; sub- sidize the Nizam, 238-257; men, 264; Railway Companies, 291; cotton spinners, 325-327; Resident at Court of Nepaul, 333-338 passim
Enniskillen, Earl of, 368 Enterprise. private, 369 Erivan, Lake, 328 Erne, Earl of, 368 Erskine, Hon. J. C., 368 Eurasians, 10
Europe, 21, 23, 119, 139, 151, 282, 285; telegraph, 289; 293, 294 295; complications 297; States of, 328; Central 332, 373 European, soldiers and pensioners, 10; troops, 10; cultivators, 102, 282; society in India, 105; nationalities in India, 120 Europeans, (the 69th Regiment) at Vellore, 130, 131 the Great
During Mutiny, 166 Euphrates, Railway, 293, 294 (n), 297,298; Indian route, (n), 298; and Indus Valley, 316; import- ance of route, 327, 328; to Mediterranean, 328, 329, 369, 374; and Indus route to Central Asia, 368; steam route, 370, 371, 372, 373, 375, 376; pre- ferable to Suez, 378; chairman of Railway Company. 369 370
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