Csoma de Koros, Life and Works of, by Dr. Theodore Duka, quoted, 153 (foot- note I).
Cultivated, cultivable, and uncultivable area, etc., of certain Provinces of British India, Appendix III., 691. Cultivators, Rights of, reserved by the Permanent Settlement of Bengal, 442, 443; oppression of, by rack-renting landlords, 443; the Land Act of 1859, 444; Rent Commission of 1879, and its proposed reforms in the direction of fixity of occupation and compensation for disturbance, 444, 445. Cunningham, General, Corpus Inscrip- tionum Indicarum, quoted, 103 (foot- note); 144 (footnote); 145 (footnote); 146 (footnotes); 153 (footnote 2); 167 (footnote 1); Ancient Geography of India, 155 (footnote); 157 (footnote 1); 164 (footnotes I and 3); 165 (footnote); 166 (footnote 1); 167 (footnote 3); 185 (footnote 2); Reports of the Archeological Survey of India, 185 (footnote 4).
Cust, Mr. R. N., Linguistic and Oriental Essays, quoted, 103 (footnote). Customs, inland lines, abolished by Lord Mayo, 425; customs import duties abolished by Lord Ripon, 429. Customs revenue, 467.
Cutch, Silver jewellery of, 605. Cutlery manufactures, 606.
Dacca muslins, a decaying manufacture, 601.
Dadu, religious reformer and sacred poet of Rajputána (16th century), 344. Dae, Mr. Arcy, The Literature of Bengal, quoted, 347 (and footnote); 348, 349 (and footnote); 352 (footnote). Dalhousie, Earl of, Governor-General of India (1848-56), 412-417; his ad- ministrative reforms, 412; inaugura- tion of the Indian railway system and the Public Works Department, 412; second Sikh war and annexation of the Punjab, 412, 413; second Burmese war and annexation of Pegu, 413, 414; Lord Dalhousie's policy towards Native States, 414, 415; Lord Dal-
housie's annexation of Oudh, and jus- tification of the measure, 415-417; Lord Dalhousie's scheme of trunk military railways, 545.
Dalton, Colonel E. T., Ethnology of Bengal, quoted, 67 (footnote). Damascened steel work, 607. Damodar coal tract, Geology of, 636-638. Dandis, a sect of Sivaite religious as- cetics and mendicants, 213, 214. Danish East India Companies (1612 and 1670 A.D.), and their settlements, 372. Danish missionaries, 259, 260.
Dasyus, the Aryan name for the non- Ayrans, or aborigines, 53.
Davids, Mr. Rhys, Buddhism, quoted, 137 (footnote); Buddhist Birth Stories, 137 (footnote).
Death-rate and average duration of life in India, 666, 667; death and birth rates in different Provinces, 667-679. Debt of India and its growth, 469. Deccan, The, or Southern India, 34-41; its mountain ranges and elevated table- land, 35, 36; mountain passes, 36, 37; rivers, 37; forests, 38, 40; scenery, 40; crops, 40, 41; minerals, 41; Maráthá power in the Deccan, 320, 322, 323.
Deccan Agriculturists' Relief Acts, a rural insolvency law, 449, 450. Decennial Settlement, The (1789-1791), 393.
Decline and fall of the Mughal Empire (1707-1857 A.D.), 312-316; chief events, 312, 313 and footnote; the six puppet kings, 313; independence of the Deccan and Oudh, 314; the Maráthá chauth, 314; invasions of Nádír Sháh the Persian, and Ahmad Sháh the Afghán, 314, 315; misery of the Provinces, 315; third battle of Pánipat, 315; fall of the Empire, 315, 316.
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, quoted, 230 (footnote 1); 239 (foot- note 2).
Decline of the Peshwás (1772-1818), 321,
Decorative art in India, 112, 113. Deer, Varieties of, 657, 658. Delhi, Siege and storm of, 421. Del Mar's History of Money in Ancient Countries, quoted, 163.
Delta of Bengal, 23-28; deltaic distribu- taries, 23; combined delta of the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghná, 24; deltaic swamps, 24; land-making, 25; size of the Bengal delta, 26; deltaic depressions, 26; subterranean structure of the Bengal delta at Cal- cutta, 26 (footnote); alluvial deposits of the Ganges and Brahmaputra, 26,
27; amount of silt deposited at Gházi- pur and in the delta, 27, 28; age of the Bengal delta, 28.
Deltaic channel of the Ganges, Section of, 23.
Density of the Indian population, 46; overcrowded and under-peopled Pro- vinces, 46, 47; population entirely rural, 46; immobility of the rural population, 47; relation of labour to land, 48, 49; unequal pressure of the population on the land, 49, 50; in- crease of population since 1872, 50. Deserted river-marts and capitals, 30. Devadatta, the Buddhist schismatic, 140.
Dhangars, a semi-Hinduized tribe of Bengal and Chutiá Nágpur, their numbers in 1872, 71 (footnote 1). Diamonds, 41; 628, 629. Dictionary of Hindu Mythology, by Professor Dowson, quoted, 180 (foot- note 4); 184 (footnote 1).
Dig, Battle of, and defeat of Holkar, 323.
Diminution of population in Madras and Mysore, 50.
Dina Bandu Mitra, dramatic poet and author of the Nil Darpan, 354. Dina Krishna Dás, Uriyá poet of the 16th century, 343.
Distillation of country spirits, 454. Distribution of Indian trade with foreign countries, 565-580.
District officers, Duties of, 436. Districts, Number of, in India, their varying size and population, 436, 437. Diwani, or financial administration of Bengal, granted to the East India Company (1765), 387. Dnyánoba, Maráthí poet of the 13th century, 346.
Doctrines of Buddha, 141, 142; moral code and missionary aspects of Buddh- ism, 143.
Dog, Different varieties of, 654. Dongargaon, mart in the Central Pro- vinces, 596.
Dowson, Professor, Dictionary of Hindu Mythology, quoted, 180 (footnote 4); 184 (footnote 1).
Drama, The Indian, 125-127; 354- Draupadi, the wife of the five Pandava
brethren in the epic of the Mahá- bharata, 195.
Dravidians, The, aboriginal races of Southern India, their languages, 64- 68; place of Dravidian languages in philology, 327, 328; the Dravidians in Sanskrit literature, 328; pre-Aryan Dravidian civilisation, 328; Dravidian art, 328, 329; Bráhmanical influence on the Dravidians, 329, 330; develop-
ment of Dravidian speech into ver- nacular literatures, 330; Tamil, the oldest and the most influential ver- nacular of Southern India, 330; Jain cycle of Tamil literature, earliest Tamil poets, 331; Tamil hymnology, 332; modern Tamil writers, Beschi, the Italian Jesuit and Tamil scholar, 333; recent statistics of Tamil litera- ture, 333.
Droughts.-See FAMINES. Drugs and medicines, 34-
Dual system of administration in Benga! (1767-72), 387, 388.
Duarte Nunez, first Portuguese bishop in India (1514-17 A.D.), 244.
Duff, Rev. Alexander, first Presbyterian missionary to India, 261.
Dufferin, Earl of, Viceroy (1884), 430. Duka, Dr. Theodore, Life and Works of Alexander Csoma de Koros, quoted, 153 (footnote 1). Duncker, Professor Max, Ancient History of India, quoted, 81 (footnote 2); 84 (footnotes 2 and 4); 115 (footnote); 163 (footnote 4).
Dupleix, French administrator, his ambi- tion of founding a French Empire ia India, and his struggles in the Karnátik with Clive, 378, 379.
Duráni rule in Afghánistán (1747-1826), 406, 407.
Duration of life (average) in India, 667. Durgá, one of the forms of the wife of Siva, 211, 212.
Dutch, The, in India (1602-1824 A.D.),
361-363; Dutch East India Com. panies, 361, 362; supremacy of the, in the Eastern Seas, brilliant progress, and decline, 362; Dutch relics in India, 363; English Treaty of Defence' with the Dutch (1619), 367; massacre of Amboyna, and expulsion of the English from the Eastern Archipelago (1624), 368; Dutch conquests in India, 371, 372; Dutch defeated by Clive at Chinsurah, 385; Dutch monopoly of Eastern trade (1600), 560. Dyes, export of, 574, 575.
Early Greek historians of India, 163, 164.
Early History of Tibet and Khoten, in Mr. Rockhill's Life of the Buddha, from the Tibetan classics, 176 and 177 (footnotes).
Early Muhammadan rulers (711-1526 A.D.), chap. X. PP. 268-289. Early Arab expeditions to Bombay (636-711 A.D.), 268; Muhammadan
settlement in Sind (711 A.D.), 268; expulsion of the Muhammadans from Sind (828 A.D.), 268; India on the eve of the Muhammadan conquest (1000 A.D.), 268, 269; the Hindu kingdoms and Hindu power of resist- ance, 269; slow progress of Muham- madan conquest, 269, 270; Muhamma- dan conquest only partial and tempo- rary, 270; recapture of India from the Muhammadans by the Hindus (1707-61 A.D.), 270; chronology of Muhammadan conquerors and dynas- ties of India (1001-1857 A.D.), 271; first Túrkí invasions, Subuktigín (977-997 A.D.), 272; the seventeen invasions of Mahmud of Ghazní (1001- 24 A.D.), 272-274; the Somnáth ex- pedition, 273, 274; Mahmúd's con- quest of the Punjab, 274; the Ghor dynasty (1152-1206 A.D.), 275-278; Muhammad of Ghor's invasions (1191- 1206 A.D.), 275, 276; his conquest of Bengal (1203 A.D.), 277, 278; Muham- mad's work in India and subjugation of Northern India, 278; Kutab-ud- dín (1206-10 A.D.), 278; the Slave dynasty, 278-280; Altamsh (1211-36 A.D.), 279; the Empress Raziya (1236- 39 A.D.), 279; Mughal irruptions and Rajput revolts (1244-88), 279, 280; Balban (1265-87 A.D.), his cruelties, 280; his Royal pensioners, 280; end of the Slave Kings, 280; the house of Khilji (1290-1320 A.D.), 280-283; Alá-
ud-din's raids into Southern India (1294), 281; conquest of Northern India (1295-1303), 281; conquest of Southern India (1303-15), 281, 282; Muhammadan power and population in India (1306), 282; Mughal merce- naries and Hindu revolts, 281; Khusru, the renegade Hindu Emperor (1316-20 A.D.), 282, 283; the house of Tughlak (1320-1414 A.D.), 283-286; Muhammad Tughlak (1324-51 A.D.), his expeditions, cruelties, forced cur- rency, 283, 284; revolts, 284; Mu- hammad Tughlak's revenue exactions, 284, 285; Firoz Shah Tughlak (1351- 88 A.D.); his canals, 285; Timur's invasion (1398 A.D.), 285; ruin of the Tughlak dynasty, 285, 286; the Say- yid, Lodi, and Bahmani dynasties (1450- 1526 A.D.), 286, 287; Muhammadan States of the Deccan, 288; the Hindu kingdom of Vijayanagar, 286, 288; independent Náyaks and Pálegárs of Southern India, 288; independent Muhammadan kingdoms of Bengal, Gujarát, and Jaunpur, 289.
East India Companies, and early Euro- pean Settlements; Portuguese, 356-361;
Dutch, 361-363; English, 363-371; other India Companies, 371; French, 372; Danish, Scotch, and Spanish, 372; German or Ostend, 372-374, 376; Prussian, 374-376; Swedish, 376; causes of failure, 376, 377. East India Company (English), 363- 365; first Charter, 364; amalgamated Companies, 365; early voyages, 365, 366; defeat of the Portuguese at Swally, 366; wars with the Dutch, 367, 368; massacre of Amboyna, 368; early English factories, 368-370; founda- tion of Calcutta (1686), 371; Company embarks on territorial sway (1689 A.D.), 371; downfall of the Company, and transfer of India to the Crown (1858 A.D.), 422.
Eastern branches of the early Aryans, 75.
Eastern Ghats, mountain range along the Eastern coast of India, 36, 38; forests of, 39.
Eastern Jumna canal, 29; 532. Ecclesiastical Department, The Indian, 266, 267.
Education Commission appointed by Lord Ripon, 429; its recommendations, 429; 474.
Education in India, 472-479; educa- tion in ancient India, 472; Sanskrit tols, 472; Calcutta Madrasa and other colleges, 473; Mission schools, 473; State system of education, 473, 474; educational finance, 475; Indian uni- versities, 475, 476; colleges, 476; upper, middle, and primary schools, 476, 477; girls' schools, 478, 479; normal and other special schools, 479; educational classification of the popu- lation, Appendix IX., 698-702. Elephants, domestic and wild, 521; 655; elephant-catching a Government mono- poly, 655, 656; Elephant Preserva- tion Act, 656.
Elgin, Lord, Viceroy of India (1862-63),
Ellenborough, Earl of, Governor-General of India (1842-44), 408, 409; the Afghán army of retribution under Generals Nott and Pollock, 408, 409; Ellenborough's Somnath proclamation, 409; conquest and annexation of Sind, 409; Gwalior outbreak, and the battles of Mahárájpur and Punniah, 409.
Ellichpur, Muhammadan kingdom of Southern India (1484-1572 A.D.), 288. Elliot, Sir Henry, Tribes of the North- Western Provinces, 195 (footnote 2); History of India as told by its own Historians, 271 (footnote); 272 (foot- notes 3 and 4); 273 (footnote); 287
Embden East India Company. PRUSSIAN AND EMBDEN EAST INDIA COMPANIES.
Embroidery work, 603.
English in India, The (1496-1689 A.D.), pp. 363-377. Attempts to reach India by the North-West passage, 363; Thomas Stephens, the earliest recorded English traveller in India (1579 A.D.), 363, 364; Fitch, Newberry, and Leedes (1583 A.D.), 364; first Charter of the East India Company (1600 A.D.), 364 ; later East India Companies, 365; the amalgamated Company (1709 A.D.), 365; early English voyages to India (1600-12 A.D.), 365, 366; British defeat of the Portuguese fleet Swally (1615 A.D.), 366; Sir Thomas Roe, British Ambassador to India (1615 A.D.), 367; wars between Eng- lish and Dutch, 367, 368; massacre of Amboyna, and expulsion of the British from the Eastern Archipelago, 368; early Indian factories in India, 367, 368; Madras founded (1639 A.D.), 369; Húgli, Balasor, and Kásímbázár factories, 369, 370; Bombay ceded to the British Crown (1661 A.D.), and the Presidency transferred thither from Surat (1684-87 A.D.), 370; Bengal separated from Madras (1687 A.D.), 370; Sir John Child, first 'Governor-General,' 370, 371; Eng- lish oppressed in Bengal by the native Viceroys, 371; the Company starts on territorial sway (1689 A.D.), 371; causes of England's success in India, and of the failure of other European powers, 377.
Ethnical division of the population, 51, 52; 73, 74.
European and Indian languages merely varieties of Aryan speech, 76. European Settlements (1498 to 18th cen- tury A.D.), chap. xiv. pp. 356-377. The Portuguese in India, 356-361; early Portuguese voyages, Covilham (1487 A.D.), and Vasco da Gama (1498 A.D.), 357, 358; state of India on arrival of Portuguese, 358; Portu- guese territorial expedition (1500 A.D.), 358; Portuguese supremacy in the Eastern Seas (1500-1600 A.D.), 358, 359; capture of Goa by Albuquerque
(1510 A.D.), 359; Portuguese crueltis, 359; Albuquerque's policy of concilia- tion, 359, 360; later Portuguese Vice- roys, their oppressions and conquest, 360; downfall of the Portuguese in India (1639-1739), 360, 361; Portu- guese possessions in 1881, 361; mixel descendants, 361. The Dutch in India (1602-1824), 359-362; Dutch East India Companies, 361; Dutch supre- macy in the Eastern Seas (1600-1700 A.D.), 362; their brilliant progress, but short-slighted policy and ultimate downfall, 362; Dutch relics in India, 363. The early English in India, 363-371; attempts to reach India by the North-West passage, 363; Thomas Stephens, the first authentic English traveller in India (1579 A. D.), 363,364: later travellers, Fitch, Newberry, and Leedes (1583 A.D.), 364; first Charter of the East India Company (1600 A.D.), 364; later East India Companies, (1635, 1655, and 1698 A.D.), 365; the amalgamated Company (1709 A.D., 365; early English voyages (1600-12 A.D.), 365; defeat of the Portuguese fleet at Swally, off Surat (1615), 366: Sir Thomas Roe, first English Ambas sador to India (1615 A.D.), 367; treaty with the Dutch (1619 A.D.), 367; English expelled from the Spice islands and Java by the Dutch (1620-21 A.D.), 367; establishment of English factories at Agra and Patná (1620 A.D.), 367: Masulipatam factory established (1622 A.D.), 368; English expelled from Eastern Archipelago, and retire to India, 368; Emperor's Farman grant- ing English liberty to trade in Bengal, 368, 369; Madras founded (1639 A.D.), 369; Húgli factory established (1640 A.D.), 369; Kásímbázár factory (1658 A.D.), 369, 370; Bombay ceded to the British Crown (1661 A.D.), 370: Presidency removed from Surat to Bombay (1684-87 A.D.), 370; separa- tion of Bengal from Madras (1681), 370; Sir John Child, first Governor- General' (1686 A.D.), 370, 371; Calcutta founded (1686), 371; the Company embarks on territorial sway (1689 A.D.), 371; French East India Companies and possessions in 1881, 372; Danish, Scotch, and Spanish Companies, 372; the German or Ostend Company, 372; its Indian settlements (1772 A.D.), 373; its successful experimental voyages and political objects, 373, 374: Ostend Company bankrupt and destroyed (1783-84 A.D.), and extinguished (1793 (A.D.), 374; the Prussian and Embden
Companies, 374-376; Swedish Com- pany (1731 A.D.), 376; causes of fail- ure of foreign European Companies, and of English success in India, 376, 377; European traders in India in 1872 and 1881, 377-
Everest, Mount, peak of the Himalayas, and highest measured mountain in the world, 5.
Everest, Rev. Mr., calculations regard ing silt discharge of Ganges, 27. Exchange, Loss by, 469.
Excise administration, distilleries, rice- beer, opium, gánjá, charas, 454, 455; 467; expenditure and income of British India, 465-470.
Excommunication from caste privileges, 199, 200.
Executive Council of the Governor- General, 432.
Export trade of India, its origin and growth, analysis and principal staples of, 567; 569-580; distribution of ex- ports to different countries, 569, 580; coasting trade, 584-586.
External sources of the ancient history of India, 163.
Fa-Hian, Chinese Buddhist pilgrim of the 5th century A.D., 155. Famine relief expenditure, 469. Famines, 539-544; causes of scarcity and of real famine, 539; means of husbanding the water-supply, 540; irrigation area, 540, 541; summary of Indian famines, 541, 542; the great famine of 1876-78, its causes, 542, 543; famine expenditure, 543; mor- tality from disease and starvation, 543, 544; famine a weak check on popula- tion, 544.
Faulmann, Buch der Schrift, quoted, 103 (footnote).
Fauna of India, 10.—See also ZOOLOGY, 652-662.
Female education, 478, 479.
Feræ Naturæ of India.-See ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY. Ferdousi, Persian poet and historian in
the days of Mahmud of Ghazní, 275. Fergusson, Mr. James, Paper in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society for April 1880, quoted, 147 (footnote); Tree and Serpent Worship, quoted, 185 (footnote 4); 204 (footnote 1); History of Architecture, 304 (footnotes). Fetish-worship in Hinduism, 205, 206. Feudatory India, the thirteen groups of Native States, 43; population, 45. Filatures.-See SILK.
Final Struggles of the French in India, by Colonel Malleson, 379 (footnote). Finances and taxation of India, obscuri- ties and changes in system of account, 457-465; taxation of British India, 459-461; taxation under the Mughals and under the British, 462, 463; taxa- tion in Native States, 464; inci- dence of taxation in British India, 464, 465. Firishta's Rise of the Muhammadan Power in India, Colonel Briggs' trans- lation, quoted, 271 (footnote); 287 (footnote 2); 291 (footnotes). Firozshahr, Battle of, 411. First Buddhist Council (543 B.C.), 143. Firuz Tughlak, the third king of the Tughlak dynasty (1351-88 A.D.), his great canals and public works, 285. Fishes, 661, 662.
Fitch, Newberry, and Leedes, the first English traders in India (1583 A.D.), 364.
Flint weapons of ancient India, 53. Flora of India, 662-664.
Food-grains, Export of, 571-573- Forde, Colonel, recapture of Masulipatam from the French (1759), 385.
Foreign trade of India, its gradual growth, 561-581; returns of foreign trade (1840-84), 562-564; staples of import and export sea-borne trade (1882-83), 565-581.
Forest Department, Growth of, and its administration, 522-528; Forest Con- servancy statistics, 526, 527; 'open' - and reserved' forests, 526. Forests of the Himálayas, 8; in Southern and South-Western India, 38-40; in Sind and Punjab, 524, 525; North- Western Provinces, 525; Sundarbans, 525; Assam and Burma, 525, 526.—See also FOREST DEPARTMENT, ut supra. Fortified weaving settlements of the East India Company, 599.
Fourth Buddhist Council (40 A.D.), 147. Fo-wei-kian-king, Chinese translation from the Sanskrit of the 'dying instruc- tions of Buddha,' 141 and footnote. Fox, The Indian, 654.
France, India's foreign trade with, 578, 579.
French East India Companies, and the present French possessions in India, 372; French and English in the Kar- nátik, the first French war (1746-48), 378; capture of Madras by the French (1746), and its restoration to the Eng- lish (1748), 379; French influence in India (1798-1800), and intrigues with Tipu Sultan and the Nizám of Haidar- ábád, 394, 395.,
Frobisher's, Davis', Hudson's, and Baffin's
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