Peshwás, the rise and progress of their power (1718-1818), 320-324; annexa- tion of the Peshwá's dominions, 402. Petroleum or mineral oil, 42; mines and oil-refining Companies in Burma, 626, 627.
Petty kingdoms of ancient India in the time of Megasthenes, 170.
Phallic emblems in Hinduism, 204, 205. Philosophical and terrible aspects of Siva- worship, 210, 211.
Philosophy of the Bráhmans, its six darsanas or schools, 98, 99. Physical aspects of India, chap. i. pp. I-42. General outline, I; origin of the name of India, 1-3; boundaries, 3, 4; the three regions of India, 4. First region, the Himalayas, 1-10; the Himalayan wall and trough, 4-6; Himalayan passes, 6; offshoots of the Himalayas, 6; the gateways of India, 6, 7; Himálayan water-supply and rainfall, 7; scenery, 7, 8; vegetation and forests, 7; cultivation, 7, 8; irri- gation and mill power, 9; saleable produce, 9, 10; fauna of the Himá- layas, 10. Second region, the northern river plains, 10-34. The three river systems of India, 10, 11-(1) the Indus and Sutlej, II, 12; lower course of the Indus, 12, 13; (2) the Tsan-pu or Brahmaputra, 13-16; the Kailas watershed, 13; the Brahma- putra tributaries in Assam, 13, 14; the Brahmaputra in Bengal, 14, 15; Brahmaputra silt deposits and islands, 14, 15; changes in Brahmaputra course, 15; the Brahmaputra as a high-road, 15, 16; (3) the Gangetic river system, 16-29; the growth of the Ganges and its discharge at different points, 17; its great tributary the Jumna, 17; sanctity of the Ganges, its places of pilgrimage, 17, 18; the Ganges as water carrier, fertilizer, and great water highway of Bengal, 19-20; traffic on the Ganges, 20; great Gangetic cities, 20, 21; first and second stages in the life of a great Indian river as a silt collector, 21, 22; loss of carrying power in second stage, 22; third stage as a land-maker, 21, 22; the delta of Bengal, and of Gangetic deltaic distributaries, 23; character of a deltaic river, 23, 24; section of a deltaic channel of the Ganges, 23; junction of the Ganges, the Brahmaputra, and the Meghná-their combined delta, 24; last scene in the life of an Indian river, land-making in the estuary, 24, 25; Bengal, the 'gift of the Ganges,' in the same sense as Egypt the gift of the Nile,' VOL. VI.
25; size of the Bengal delta, 25; succes- sive depressions of the delta, 26, 27; its subterranean structure, 26 (foot- note); amount of silt brought down by the Ganges at Gházipur, 27; estimated silt of united river at the delta, 28; time required to construct the Bengal delta, 28; river irrigation by means of canals, 28, 29; the rivers as highways of trade, 29; saline deposits from canal irrigation, 29; changes of river beds and deserted river capitals, 30; the 'bore' of the Húgli and Meghná, 30, 31; destruction of river - side villages, 31, 32; poetry of the Indian river names, 32; crops of the river plains of North-Western Bengal and the delta, 32, 33; scenery of the river plains, 33, 34. Third region, the southern table-land or the Deccan, 34-42; its three supporting mountain walls, 35; the Vindhya mountains and their ranges, the ancient barrier between Northern and Southern India, 35, 36; the Eastern and Western Ghats, 36; the central triangular plateau, 36; the Bhor Ghát, 36; the Thal Ghát, 37; the Palghat pass, 37; rivers of the inner plateau, 37, 38; historical signi- ficance of the Eastern and Western Ghats, 38; rainfall of the Deccan, 38; the four forest regions of Southern India, 38-40; scenery of Southern India, 40; crops, 40, 41; minerals, 41; recapitulation of the three regions of India, their races and languages, 41; British Burma, 42.
Pillar and Rock inscriptions of Asoka, 145 (footnote); 146.
Pindari freebooters, Expedition against the (1817), 401.
Pippli, early seaboard settlement and port of the East India Company, now far inland, 368, 369.
Plassey, Battle of (1757), 382. Police statistics, 472.
Pollock, his march from the Punjab to Kábul (1842), 409.
Polyandry among the Nairs and Himá- layan tribes, 55; polyandry of Drau- padí, the wife of the five Pándava brethren in the Mahábhárata, 121; polyandry in the Hindu marriage law, 195; modern survivals of, 195. Pondicherri, Roman Catholic Mission, 259; ineffectual siege of, by Admiral Boscawen's fleet and a land force under Major Lawrence (1748), 379; siege of, and capitulation to, Sir Eyre Coote (1760), 380.
Poona, Treaty of (1817), 402. Popham, Captain, storm of Gwalior for- tress during the first Maráthá war, 391. 3 A
Popular Vishnuism, 217. Population of India, chap. ii. pp. 43-52.
General survey of the people, 43; the feudatory chiefs and their powers, 43; the twelve British Provinces, 44; Census of 1872 and of 1881, 44, 45; population tables of British, Feudatory, and Foreign India, 44, 45; density of the population, 46; absence of large towns, 46; overcrowded dis- tricts, 46, 47; under-peopled tracts, 47; immobility of the Indian peasant, 47; nomadic system of tillage, 47, 48; relation of labour to land in the last century, and at the present day, 48, 49; serfdom, 49; unequal division of the people, 49, 50; increase of population since 1872, 50; ethnical history of India, 51; fourfold division of the people, into Aryans, non-Aryans, mixed Hindus, and Muhammadans, 51, 52; population tables for 1881, 51 (foot- note), and Appendices I.-X., 689-703. Portuguese in India, 356-361; Covilham,
357; Vasco da Gama, 357, 358; Cabral, 358; Francisco de Almeida, 359; Albuquerque, 359, 360; oppressions of the Portuguese, 359, 360; downfall of the Portuguese power, 360; Portu- guese Indian possessions in 1871, 361; mixed descendants, 361; defeat of the Portuguese fleet at Swally off Surat (1615), 366; temporary expulsion of the Portuguese from Bengal, 368, 369; early Portuguese trade with India, 560. Porus, Defeat of, by Alexander the Great, 164.
Post-Vedic Gods, Rise of, 97, 98; the
Potato cultivation in the Himalayas, 9. Pottery manufactures, 608; 628. Practical faith of the Hindus, its toler- ance and fairness to Christianity, 226, 227.
Pre-Aryan kingdoms in Northern India, 184; pre-Aryan civilisation, 328, 329. Pre- Buddhistic Scythian influences in India, connection of the Horse Sacrifice with the Human Sacrifice of pre-Buddh- istic India, 175, 176; 183, 184; Scythic and Nága influences on Hinduism, and on the religions and domestic life of modern India, 189, 199.
Precious metals in India, imports of treasure, 562, 568, 569; gold-mining, 624, 625.
Precious stones, 9; 606; 628, 629; 639. Predatory hill races; their conversion
from marauding tribes into peaceful cultivators and good soldiers, 71-73. Presbyterian Missions, 261. Primary education, 477, 478. Primitive Aryan burial, 85-87.
Prince of Wales' visit to India (1875-76), 426.
Prinsep, Henry T., Narrative of Pelitual and Military Transactions of Britin India under the Marquis of Hastings, quoted, 317 (footnote).
Proclamation of the Queen as Empress of India, 426.
Products and agriculture.-See AGRICUL TURE AND PRODUCTS.
Protestant Missions in India, 259-269: first translation of the Bible into the vernacular, 260; Schwartz, Kiernander, Marshman, Carey, and Ward, 260, 261; opposition of the Company to Christian missionaries, 260; withdrawal of the Company's opposition, 200, 261; Bishopric of Calcutta, 261; statistics of Protestant Missions, 261-264. Provincial Administration, Regulation and Non-Regulation' territory, Is- trict officers and their duties, 434-437- Prussian and Embden East India Com- panies (1750 and 1753), Dutch and English jealousy of, and their down- fall, 374-376.
Public Works expenditure, 469, 470- See also MEANS OF COMMUNICATION, RAILWAY SYSTEM, ROADS, Canals,
Puliars, a wild aboriginal tribe in the Anamalai Hills, Madras, 55- Pulses, Cultivation of, 489. Puránas, The, their place in Indian literature, 216, 217.
Race origin of caste modified by pation' and 'locality,' 192, 193 Raigarh, enthronement of Sivaji as an independent monarch at, in the Deccan (1674), 319.
Railway system of India, inaugurated by Lord Dalhousie, 545; extended by Lord Mayo, 545, 546; the eight guaranteed trunk lines, 546, 547; State and 'Assisted' railways, 547, 548; railways in Native States, 548, 549; statistics of traffic and capital invested, 549, 550.
Rainfall, Himálayan, 7; Western Ghats, 38; statistics of rainfall for 435 Indian stations, 649, 650.
Rájputána literature and sacred poetry, 344.
Rajputs, their reputed Scythian origin, 180; number of Rajput castes in modern India, 194; distribution of Rájputs in the 12th century A.D., 276, 277: Rájput revolts against the Slave kings, 280; against the Khilji dynasty, 282;
against the Tughlak dynasty, 284; conciliation of Rajputs by Akbar, 293; revolt against Jahangir, 301; against Aurangzeb, 309, 310.
Ráma, the hero of the Sanskrit epic Rámáyana, 123, 124.
Rámánand, Vishnuite religious reformer (1300-1400 A.D.); his low-caste dis- ciples, 218.
Rámánuja, Vishnuite religious reformer (1150 A.D.), 217.
Rámáyana, the Sanskrit epic relating to the Aryan advance into Southern India, 121, 122; the story of Rámá, his exile together with his wife Sitá; the war with the aboriginal king of Ceylon, and triumphant return, 123, 124. Rám Mohan Rái, theistic religious re- former and prose religious writer, 353- Rám Prasad Sen, court poet of Nadiyá in the 18th century, 352.
Ranjit Singh, the founder of the Sikh kingdom, 410, 411.
Ráyatwári settlement of the land in Madras, 445, 446; growth of the Madras cultivator into a proprietor, 447; extension of tillage, 447; reduc- tion of average land-tax, 448. Raynal, Abbé, History of the Settlements
and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies, quoted, 374 (footnote). Raziyá, Empress of Delhi (1236-39), the only lady who ever occupied that throne, 279.
Reconquest of India from the Muham-
madans by the Hindus (1707-61 A.D.), 270.
Reform of Hindu customs by Akbar, 293. 'Regulation' and 'Non-Regulation Provinces, 435-
Religion of the Hindus, by Dr. H. H.
Wilson, quoted, 201 (footnote 2); 205 (footnote 1); 206 (footnote 2); 208 (footnote 2); 210 (footnote 2); 213 (footnote 1); 221 (footnote 2); 223 (footnotes 3 and 4); 225 (footnote 5). Religions of India, by Dr. Barth, quoted, 161 (footnote 2).
Religious classification of the population
of British India, Appendix V., 693. Rennel, Major, map of Bengal in 1765, 15. Rent Commission of Bengal (1879), and its reforms in the extension of tenant- right and compensation for disturbance, 444, 445. Report on the Miscellaneous Old Records
in the India Office, by Sir George Bird- wood, 358 (footnote 2); 360 (footnote 1); 364 (footnotes I and 2); 368 (footnote); 370 (footnote). Reptiles, 660; poisonous serpents, and deaths from snake-bite, 660. Revenue Resources of the Mughal Empire,
by Mr. E. Thomas, quoted, 271 (foot- note); 297 (footnote 2); 299; 301 (footnote 1); 304, 305 (footnote); 311 (footnotes).
Revenue system of British India, the land-tax, 438-441, 452; salt-duty, 453, 454; excise and opium, 453-455; muni- cipal revenues, 455-457; revenue and expenditure of British India, 455-470. Revenue of the Mughal Empire under Akbar, 297; growth of the Mughal revenues (1593-1761 A.D.), 269. Revue de l'Histoire des Religions, by Dr. Barth, quoted, 161 (footnote 2). Rhinoceros, The Indian, 656. Rice cultivation in Bengal, 32, 33; in other Provinces of India, its numerous varieties, 485; out-turn, 485, 486; export of, 572; export duty on, 573- 'Right-hand' and 'left-hand' castes of Madras, 196, 197.
Rig-Veda, the earliest Sanskrit hymnal, 77, 88; its antiquity, 77, 78; caste and widow-burning unknown, 78; the story of the Aryan advance into India, 79; Aryan civilisation in the Veda, 79; the gods of the Veda, 79-81; Vedic con- ceptions of the Deity, the modern blood- loving gods unknown, 82; Vedic hymns and prayers, 84-86; primitive Aryan form of burial, 84; cremation substituted for burial, 84, 85; Vedic legend of Yama, the king of death, 85; the Vedic farewell to the dead, 85, 86..
Ripon, Marquis of (Viceroy of India, 1880-84); conclusion of the Afghán war, amendment of criminal procedure, revenue reforms, Education Commis- sion, abolition of customs duties, Ben- gal Tenancy Bill, 427-429.
Rise of the Maráthá power, 307, 308. -See also chap. xii., "The Maráthá Power, 317-324.
River communications, 15, 16; 19, 20; 551-553.
River plains of India, 10-34; the great rivers, Ganges, Jumna, Indus (with Sutlej), and Brahmaputra, 11-20; the different stages in the life of an Indian river, 21-23; the Bengal delta and process of land-making, 23-28; rivers as irrigators and highways, 28, 29; destructive floods, 29-32; poetry of Indian river names, 32; crops and scenery of the river plains and the Bengal delta, 32-34.
River systems of Northern India, 10, 11; of Southern India, 37, 38.
River traffic on the Ganges and Gangetic channels, and of the port of Calcutta,
Roads, old military routes, the 'Grand
Trunk Road,' inland route from Bom- bay, extension of minor roads, 550, 551. Roberts, Sir Frederick, his march from
Kábul to Kandahár and defeat of Ayub Khán, 427.
Rock Edicts of Asoka, 144, 145 (foot. note); 146 and footnote. Rockhill, Mr. W. Woodville, Life of the Buddha, and the early History of his Order, derived from Tibetan works, and translated by, quoted, 137 (foot- note 2); 138 (footnote 2); 154 (foot- note 2); 160 (footnote 2); 176 (foot- note 1); 177 (footnotes).
Roe, Sir Thomas, first British Ambassador to India, in the reign of Jahángír (1615 A.D), 301; 367. Rohilkhand and Bijnaur canal, 533. Rohilla war, 390.
Roman Catholics, Distribution of, in India, 257; the Verapoli vicariate, 257; Roman and Syrian Catholic population of India, 257-259; Catholic progress, colleges and schools, 257-259. See also CATHOLIC MISSIONS.
Sacred Books of the East, by Professor Max Müller, quoted, 161 (footnotes 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8).
Safed Koh, mountain range forming a portion of the western boundary be- tween British India and Afghánistán, 3; 6.
Safflower, Export of, 574.
Sagar Island at the mouth of the Ganges,
a celebrated place of pilgrimage, 17, 18. Sahu, son and nominal successor of Sam- bhají, 319, 320.
Saidapet, Government model farm at, in Madras, recently closed, 516; agri- cultural school at, 516.
Saka or Scythian era (78 A.D.), 181. Sakhi Sarwar, place of pilgrimage in the
Punjab, sacred both to Hindus and Muhammadans, 203, 204.
Sakta or Tantrik sect of Siva-worshippers,
Sakuntala, famous Sanskrit drama, 126. Sakya race customs, 178. Salbái, Treaty of, 323; 392.
Salim, Prince, Akbar's favourite son and successor as the Emperor Jahangir, 300-302.
Saline deposits from canal irrigation, 29. Saliváhaná, King of Southern India, his wars with the Scythians, 181. Salt administration, 452; sources of supply and systems of manufacture, 453, 454; the Madras monopoly, 453; equalization of duty, 453 454; vied of salt duty, 468; the Kájputana sak lakes, and Punjab salt mines, 622, 623. Saltpetre, Manufacture of, 623, 624. Salt range, Geology of, 633. Sama-Veda, The, 88.
Sambalpur, Diamonds of, 628. Sambhaji, son and successor of Sivaji, put to death by Aurangzeb, 319. Samvat and Saka eras (57 and 78 A D.), ISI. Sanctity of the Ganges, 17, 18. Sandwip island, Slavery in, 49. Sankara Acharya, a Sivaite religious re- former (9th century A.D.), 209, 210. Sankhya, one of the six darsanas a Brahmanical schools of philosophy, go. Sanskrit Grammar,by Professor Whitney, 334 (footnote 1). Sanskrit grammar and literature, 100-104; 334-336; Pánini's grammar, 100, 101; Sanskrit and Prakrit speech, 101; Sanskrit manuscripts, 101, 102; the Indian Alphabet, 102, 103; Sanskrit writings almost entirely verse, 103: prose a forgotten art, 103, 104; Sans- krit dictionaries, 104; evidence as to whether Sanskrit was ever a spoken vernacular, 334-336.
Sanskrit Texts, by Dr. John Muir, quoted, 81 (footnote 2); 84 (footnote 3); 94 (footnote); 212 (footnote 4); 334 (footnotes 2 and 3).
Santáls, an aboriginal tribe of Bengal, 57; their village government, 574 social ceremonies, 58; religion, 58, 59: the Santáls under British rule, 59; Santál rising (1855), 59, 60. Satára, Native State, lapsed to the British for want of heirs (1849), 415.
Satí, or widow-burning, unknown in the Rig-Veda, 78; abolition of the rite by Lord W. Bentinck, 405.
Satnámís, a reformed Vishnuite sect in the Central Provinces, 223.
Satpura, range of mountains in Bombay and Central India, 35.
Sayyid dynasty, The (1414-50 A. D.), 286. Scarcities.-See FAMINES. Schools.-See EDUCATION.
Schwartz, Protestant missionary in Tan- jore, 260.
Scott-Waring, Mr. Edward, History of the Maráthás, quoted, 317 (footnote 1). Sculpture, Greek and Indian types of, 171; 608, 609.
Scythic invasions and inroads (126 B.C. to 544 A.D.), chap. vii. pp. 174-190. Aryan and Turanian inva- sions from Central Asia, 174; Scythic movements towards India, 174, 175; Kanishka's fourth Buddhist Council (40 A.D.), 175; pre-Buddhistic Scythic influences, 175; Buddha a Sakya (? Scythian), 176, 177; early Tibetan traditions, 177, 178; Sakya race customs, 178; Scythic Buddhism in India, 178, 179; Scythic elements in the Indian population-the Játs and Rajputs, 179. 180; Indian struggle against the Scythians, 180-182; Vik- ramaditya's achievements, 181; Ser, Gupta, and Vallabhí dynasties, 182, 183; the pre-Aryan element in ancient India, 183; ancient pre-Aryan king- doms, 184-189; the Takshaks of Rawal Pindi, 184, 185; the Nágás, 185, 186; the Ghakkars of Ráwal Pindi, 186; the Bhars of Oudh and the North- Western Provinces, 187; Koch king- dom of Northern Bengal, 187, 188; the Ahams of Assam, 188; Bundelas, 188; Gonds, Ahirs, and Bhils of Central India, 189; pre-Aryan ab- original tribes of Lower Bengal and Southern India, 189; Scythic and Nágá influences on Hinduism, and on the religion and domestic life of modern India, 189, 190.
Sea-borne trade of British India, 559-
581; the great seaports, 559, 560; early European, Portuguese, Dutch, and English traders, 560, 561; advance- ment of English trade, 561, 562; Indian trade (1878-85), 563, 564; staples of foreign sea-borne import and export trade, 561-581.—See also COMMERCE AND TRADE. Secret orgies in Siva-worship, 215. Secretariats of the Government of India,
and of the minor governments, 437, 438. Secretary of State's India Council in London, 431.
Sect and national classification of the population, Appendix X., 703.
Secular literature of the Hindus, 118-128. See also chap. xiii., The Indian Vernaculars and their Literature,' 325- 355. Segauli, Treaty of, at the termination of the Gurkha war (1814-15), 400. Selections from the Despatches of the Marquis of Wellesley, by Sidney J. Owen, quoted, 317 (footnote 1); Selec tions from the Despatches of the Duke of
Wellington, by Sidney J. Owen, quoted, 317 (footnote 1).
Seleukos, Alexander's successor to his conquests in Bactria and the Punjab (312-306 B.C.), 166. 167; cession of the Punjab to Chandra Gupta, 167; Megas- thenes' embassy to Chandra Gupta's court at Pataliputra (the modern Patná), 167, 168.
Sena dynasty of Suráshtra (70 B.C.-235 A.D.), 182.
Serampur or Fredriksnagar, settlement of the Danish East India Company (1616), acquired by the English by purchase (1845), 372; Baptist Mission at, founded by Carey, Marshman, and Ward, 260.
Serfdom in India, 49. Seringapatam, Capture of, and death of Tipú Sultán, 396, 397. Serpent-worship, its influences on Hindu- ism, 185, 186; serpent ornamentation in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christi- anity, 202, 203.
Shah Jahan, filth Mughal Emperor of India (1628-58 A.D.), 302-305; chief events of his reign, 302 (footnote); loss of Kandahár (1653), 303; Deccan conquests, 303. 304; Táj Mahal and other architectural works, 304; revenues, 304 (footnote 3); deposed by his rebellious son, Prince Aurang- zeb, 305; magnificence of his court, 305.
Sháhjí Bhonslá, founder of the Maráthá power (1634), 317.
Shah Shujá installed by the British as Amir of Kábul (1839), 407.
Shawls, 112; 603; an Indian jewelled shawl, 604.
Sheep as beasts of burden in the Himá- layas, 10.
Sheep and goats, 521; 657. Sherring, Rev. M. A., Hindu Tribes and
Castes, 193 (footnote 1); 194 (footnotes 2, 3, and 4); 195 (footnote 2); 221 (footnote 4).
Sher Shah, Afghán Emperor of Delhi (1540-45), killed while storming the fortress of Kálinjar, 291.
Shore, Sir John, Governor-General of India (1793-98), 394.
Shrines common to different faiths, 203. Siam, trans-frontier trade with, 589, 590. Sikandra, Tomb of Akbar at, 295. Sikhs, history of the. Nának, the
founder of the religious sect, 223; 410; Ranjit Singh, the founder of the kingdom, 410, 411; first Sikh war (1845); battles of Múdki, Firozsháhr, Alíwál, and Sobráon, 411; second Sikh war (1848-49); battles of Chilianwala and Gujrát, 412, 413;
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