Afghanistan under British pro- Acts, two, passed by Parliament in 1773, 229 Aden, an important trade centre, 2 Afghan War, first, 441 Second, 442-444 Afghanistan, first English campaign in, 401 Delimitation of, 445 Political importance of, to Great Russian intrigues against, 439 Why necessarily protected by Eng- Ahmad Shah Abdali, Afghan leader, Seizes the Panjab, 77 Invades Northern India, 192, 194 Death of, 269 Aix-la-Chapelle, Peace of, and the res- Alexander Borgia, Pope, Bull of, divid-| Alexandria an important trade centre for nearly eighteen centuries, 1 Death of, in 1656, 164 America, effect of the discovery of, on Amherst, Lord, Governor-General of Amiens, Peace of, 319, 324 Amir Khan besieges Jaipur, 378 Disbands his army, 380 Anglo-Dutch alliance to drive the Spanish and Portuguese from the Joint Stock Company, proposal for a, Treaty of 1619, 22 War in India in 1651-1654, 29 Alliance against France in 1678, 38 War on the Coromandel coast, 104 Anglo-Portuguese alliance negotiated, 31 Anglo-Spanish war of 1739, effect of, on Arakan, annexation of, 390 Arkot (Arcot) seized by Clive, 119-120 Arras, battle at, 245 Asaf Jah, the first Nizam, death of, 115 Political situation in, at the present Powerless to resist European expan- Assam, kingdom of, 387-388 Auckland, Lord, Governor-General of Augustine, St., on the expansion of em- Aurangzib, Emperor, accession of, 30 Civil war breaks out on the death of, Barker, Sir Robert, 241 Barlow, Sir George, succeeds Cornwallis Batavia, headquarters of the Dutch Baxar, defeat of the Oudh vizir at, 188 Acquired by the English, 266 ing the twenty years after the Resto- English masters of, in 1758, 141, 176 ning of the eighteenth century, India, 392-394 in the Bay Governor- Bentinck, Lord William, Bhotan, war with, 433 Bijapur destroyed by Aurangzib, 44, 54 The headquarters of the English Boughton, a surgeon in the East India Breda, treaty of, adjusting commercial Buonaparte, scheme of Asiatic conquest Letter of, to Tippu, 304 Burgoyne, surrender of, at Saratoga, 247 228 Attacks the East India Company, Burma, the kingdom of, 386 First war with, 389 Burma, Upper, annexed by the British, Results of the annexation of, 486-487 Character of, 124 Ordered to Pondicherri, 138-139 C Cachar, Burmese inroads into, 389 English driven from, in 1756, 140 Reorganization of government in, and Cape of Good Hope, rounding of, largely Cavagnari, Sir Louis, British envoy at Ceylon seized by the Dutch, 30 Held by the Dutch at the beginning Makes English the official language of Chanda Sahib murdered by the Mara- Abolishes suttee, 394-395 Foreign policy of, 395 Bernier, François, quotations from, re- garding the military and official Writes of the strength of India, 162 thas, 120 Channing, Lord, rule of, for determining 429 Charles II, restoration of, 30 Child, Sir John, sent to India, 57-58 Chilianwala, battle of, 418 China, as a rival of England, 486 |