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Civilization, Asiatic, England's influence |
on, 494

Clive seizes Arcot, the capital of the
Karnatic, 119-120

Expedition of, to recover Fort William,
140, 141

Letter of, to Pitt, predicting Lally's
downfall, 145

Recovers Calcutta, 166

Returns to England, 183, 184

On the political situation in Bengal,
183

Return of, to India, 185, 198-199
Assumes the title of Diwan, 187
Accepts the Diwani of Bengal for the
English Company, 199
Quotations from, regarding the polit-
ical situation, 199, 200-201, 203
Receives a grant of the Five Circars
(Sirkars) from the Moghul emperor,

211-212

Leaves India finally, 216

Evil effects of the departure of, soon
felt in India, 223, 226
Arraignment of, 228-229
Death of, 229

Companies, chartered, systems of, for
commercial expansion, 17

Rivalry of old and new East India,
66-67

nion of old and new English East
India, 67-68

French and English, financial trans-
actions of, 95-96

French and English, condition of, 96,
99

Methods of the French and English,
compared, 112

French and English, exchange bitter
recriminations from Madras and
Pondicherri, 118-119

French and English, peace between,

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Company, English East India, first
charter of the, in 1600, 9-10

In the East, unsupported by the home
government, 24-25

Made responsible for all depredations
of independent traders, 25
Given a new charter by Charles II,
30-31

Power granted to the, by the terms of
the new charter, 32

Assumption of independent jurisdic-
tion by the, in 1687, 42

War of the, against Aurangzib, in
1687, 45, 57-58

Instructions to the, regarding rev-
enue, 56-57

Position of the, in India, in the last
years of the seventeenth century,
57-59

Sends home for help against the
French, 118

The real ruler of Bengal in 1767, 216
Necessity for State interference with
the, 220

Assets of, in Bengal, in 1765, 221
Insolvency of, 224

Provincial regulations of, 453
Company, French East India, founded
by Louis XIV, 33, 36-37
Terms of charter of, 87
Vicissitudes of, 91

Finances of, from 1735 to 1740, 92-93
Growth of the financial embarrass-
ments of, 111-112

On the verge of insolvency in 1754, 134
Company, Ostend East India, chartered
by the Emperor of Austria in 1722,
and later suppressed, 90

Company, Universal East India, founded
in 1602, in Holland, 12
Constantinople an important

centre, 3-4

Taken by the Latins in 1204, 4
Decline of, 4

trade

Cornwallis reaches India in 1786, 272
Governor-General and Commander-

in-Chief in India, 281

Settlement by, of the land revenue of
Bengal, 283

League of, against Tippu, 286-287,
294

Leaves India, 298, 302

Second governor-generalship of, 344
Pacific principles of, 344-345
Death of, 345

Coromandel coast, French and English
at war on the, 104

Cuddalore, French outwitted by Law-
rence at, 107

Surrendered to Tippu in 1782, 256, 257

D

D'Aché, French Admiral, character of,
142

Fails to co-operate with Lally, 142
Withdraws to the Isle of France, 143
Dalhousie, Lord, Governor-General of
India, 418

Daulat Rao Sindhia, influence of, 308-
309

Davenant, Sir Charles, on the East India
trade conditions, 60-62
Delhi taken by Lake, 327
Dost Mohammad restored to power in
Kabul, 404

Dover, secret treaty of, between the
English and the French king, 39
Dow, extract from the history of Hindu-
stan by, 203-204

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Duff, Grant, author of a History of
the Marathas," 193
Dumas, an early governor of Pondi-
cherri, 93

Dunkirk sold to France, 33

Dupleix appointed to the Governorship

of Pondicherri in 1741, 93
Schemes of territorial extension of, 101
Violates the terms of the surrender of
Madras, 106

Defeats the Nawab of the Karnatic, 106
Policy of, 107-108

Motives of, in interfering with native
politics, 116-117
Recalled to France, 121
Failure of the policy of, 121
Death of, 123

Characterization of, 129-131
Dutch-Spanish negotiations in regard

to the Eastern trade, 11-12
Dutch and English quarrel in the East
while they preserve the strictest
amity at home, 12

Exclude the English from the Spice
Islands trade, 15

At bitter war in the East, 21-22, 24-25,
29, 30

Drive the English from the coast of
Eastern Asia, 30

Eastern position of, at the beginning
of the eighteenth century, 90
Defeated in Bengal by the English, 183

E

East Indies, meaning of the term in the
seventeenth century, 14-15

Edward VII, durbar of, 464
Ellenborough, Lord, Governor-General
of India, 403

Determines to retire from Afghanistan,

403-404

Recalled, 406

Elphinstone criticizes Dupleix, 125
Empress of India, title of, assumed by
Victoria, 464

England and Holland combine against
the Portuguese Asiatic settlements
under Spanish rule, 8

France and Holland allied against, in
1665, 33

Possessions of, in Asia, 35

Political reasons leading to the success
of, in Asia, 36, 38

Complications of the foreign relations
of, 37

Second war of, with Holland, in 1665,
38

Third war of, with Holland, in 1672,
39-40

Successful Eastern trade of, at the
end of the seventeenth century, 60
War of, with France, in South India,

72

Declares war in Europe against France
100, 101

Strength of the navy of, in 1755,

135

Carries out Col. James Mill's scheme

for conquering Bengal ten years
after its inception, 163

At war with France, Spain, Holland,
and the American colonies, 259
Confirmation by treaty of conquests
of, in the East, 359-360
Territory ruled by, in India, 383-384
Why supreme in India, 493

Control and influence of, beneficial to
India, 497

English, defeat the Spanish Armada in
1588, 8

Commerce in the East advanced by
the hostilities between Holland and
France, 40, 41

Dominion in the East, reasons leading
to, and history of, 63-74

Alliance of the, with Nasir Jang and
Mohammad Ali, 118

Army, strength of, in India, in 1754,

131

Dethrone Siraj-ad-daulah and set up
another Nawab, 141

Expel the French from Bengal, 141
Reasons for the triumph of the, in
India, 150-151

Obtain a farmān in 1716 from the
Moghul Emperor, 163

Occupy Bengal, 176

Seize all French settlements in India,
248

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Fortunes of the, in India, waning in
1780, 251

Mysore, war of the, with, 287
League of the, with the Nizam and
Peshwa against Mysore, 309-310
Treaty of peace of the, with Sindhia
and the Nagpur Raja, 329
Expedition of the, to Afghanistan, 399
European competition for trade in the
East, 17-18

F

Fleury, ministry of, 91

Fort St. David, futile expedition of the
French against, 106

Fort St. George in the possession of the
English, 35

Fox, East India Bill of, 274, 275, 277-279
Firozshah, battle of, 410, 413

France, wars of, in Europe, from 1690
to 1713, 53

Policy of, under Richelieu, 80

Reasons for the failure of, in India,
126, 150-151

Strength of navy of, in 1755, 135
French, under De la Haye sail to Ceylon
and occupy the harbour of Trin-
comali, 37

Take possession of St. Thomé, near
Madras, 37

Alliance of, with the Dutch, against
England in 1666, 37, 38

Colonization, history of, 79-80, 83-102
Active in North America, 94

Allied with Muzaffar Jang and Chanda
Sahib, 118

Army, strength of, in India, in 1754,
131

Expelled from Northern Sirkars, 142
Company in India dissolved in 1770,

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Ghazipur acquired by the English, 266
Goa, Portuguese garrison removed to, 21
Godeheu succeeds Dupleix at Pondi-
cherri, 123

Golkonda destroyed by Aurangzib, 44, 54
| Gujarat, Sikh army overthrown at, 417
Gurkhas (Gurkhalis), war of, with the
English, 374-377

Gwalior, fortress of, taken by Captain
Popham, 254

H

Haidarabad, Muzaffar Jang established
as Nizam of, by the French, 119
Hyder Ali invades, 212

Decline of the State of, 295
Nizam of, transfers large districts to
the English, 317-318

Hamont, M. Tibulle, the French biog-
rapher of Lally, 137

Hardinge, Sir Henry, Governor-General
of India, 410

Hastings, Marquis of, Governor-General
of India, 366

War of, with the Gurkhas, 374-377
Plans of, for the suppression of the
freebooting hordes, 379

Hastings, Warren, first Governor-Gen-
eral in India, 237

Disputes of, with his Council, 234
Transactions of, against the Rohillas,
240-243

Treaty of, with the Marathas, in 1782,
254

Financial embarrassments of, 252,
253, 254, 255, 263
Resignation of, 258

Political intrepidity of, 261
Impeachment and trial of, 263-264
Burke's charges against, 278

High Courts of Judicature, establish-
ment of, 455

Hindu Kush tribes come under British
control, 445

Holkar, Jaswant Rao, attacked by Colo-

nel Monson, 329-330

Signs a treaty with the English, 330

Dispersion of the troops of, 330

Policy of, 330

Army of, defeated at Mehidpur, 380
Holland, commercial ascendency of, in
the East, 14

Increasing strength and pre-eminence
of the Republic of, in the seven-
teenth century, 28, 29, 30
Decline of the naval power of, 71
War declared against, in 1674, by
Louis XIV, 89

Germanic States, alliance of, in 1691, 53 | Hughes, naval engagements of, 256-257

Hugli River, English factory on, 23
Hyder Ali of Mysore, 208, 209

Master of Mysore, 211

Sends a large force into Haidarabad,

212

At war with the English, 213

Treaty of, with the English, 213, 214
Vindictive spirit of, 249

Triple alliance of, 251

Ravages the Karnatic, 251, 252
Death of, 257

I

Imports, Indian, value of, in England,
in 1622, 19

India, awarded to Portugal by Pope

Alexander Borgia, 5

Civil war in, 30

Inherent weakness of, 125

General peace in, in 1784, 257-258
Double government of, 279
Passes to the Crown, 425-426
Effect of the direct government of,
assumed by the Crown, 456
Within the sphere of European diplo-
macy, 490-491

The only modern example of the
evolution of an empire, 493
India Councils Act, passage of the, 455
India troops, European training of, 126
Army components of, 170-171
Indian Succession Act, provisions of
the, 459

Indies, meaning of the term, 86
Indo-Chinese dependency of the Indian

Empire, formation of the, 468
Irrigation, effect of, on India, 463-464
Italy, commercial decline of, 6

J

Java, reduction of, 358

Jhansi, annexation of, 421

K

Kabul occupied by the English, 401
Disastrous retreat of the English from,
403

Russian envoy at, 439

Afghans defeated at, 442
Kandahar occupied by the English, 401
Karikal acquired for France, 100
Karnatic, the, invaded by the Maratha
chief Sivaji, 42

War of succession in the, 99-100, 115-
117

Maratha invasion of the, in 1740, 100

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Headquarters of the English Company,
strongly fortified, 99
Besieged by Labourdonnais, 104
Surrendered to the French, 104
Restored to England by the French
in return for Louisburg, 107
Siege of, raised by Lally, 144
War of, against Hyder Ali, 212
Treaty of, with the Nizam of Haida-
rabad, 212, 214

Mahadaji Sindhia, increasing power and
territories of, 289

Death of, 289

Mahé acquired for France, 100

Taken by the English, 250
Maine, Sir Henry, takes charge of the

Indian legislative department, 458
Manipur, captured by the Burmese, 389
Temporarily occupied by the Eng-
lish, 430

Maratha power, rise of, under the chief
Sivaji, in 1660-1680, 42-43
Invasion of 1740, 100

Marathas, strength of, on the western
side of India, 99

Rising power of the, 173-175, 237-239
Invade Upper India in 1758, 191-193
In the Karnatic, 213

Overthrown in Panipat, 237
Tactics of the, 238

Menace Rohilkhand, 238, 241
Strength and position of the, 246
French overtures to the, 247

New system of war tactics of the, 290-
292

Invade Haidarabad, 302

Internal contests of, and flight of the
Peshwa, 320-321

Marion, M., on French finance, 134-135
Martin, François, founder of Pondicherri,
92

Masulipatam, English Company settles

at, 23

Taken by the English, 142

Mauritius, island of, occupied by the
French, 91, 103
Reduction of, 258

Mazarin, policy of the French under, 83
Mekong River, British influence ad-
vances to, 487

Mill, James, on the success of England,

124

Scheme of, for conquering Bengal
submitted to the Austrian emperor,
162
Minto, Lord, Governor-General of India,
349

Embassies from, 353-354

Mir Jafir proclaimed Nawab in place of
Siraj-ad-daulah, 168

Deposed, 186

Restored in 1763, 187
Death of, 187

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Mir Kasim ascends the throne, 186
Moghul Empire, rapid decline of the,
75, 76-78

Administrative system of the, 453
Mohammad Ali tacitly recognized as
Nawab of the Karnatic, 123
Monson, Colonel, defeated by Holkar,
330

Montesquieu declares against emigra-
tion, 151

Morellet, Abbé, report of, concerning
the finances of the French Com-
pany, 147
Mudki, battle of, 410

Münster, treaty of, in 1648, 23
Murshid Kuli Khan, Governor of Bengal,

164

Mutiny, political and legal reorganiza-
tion after the, 452

Muzaffar Jang, accession of, 118, 119
Death of, 120

Mysore, a Hindu principality, 211
Partition of, 310

Reconstitution of native government
in, 431

N

Nadir Shah, invasion of India by, 77
Death of, 77

Nagpur, outbreak at, 380
Annexation of, 421

Napier, Sir Charles, 404-406

Defeats Amirs of Sind at Miani, 405
Napoleon plans a Franco-Russian ex-
pedition to India, 351
Overthrow of, 355

Nasir Jang murdered by his merce-
naries, 118

Native States, area, population, and
administration of, since 1860, 429-

430

Relation of, to the Indian Empire,
476-477

Navigation Law of Cromwell adopted
by Charles II, 32
Nepal, war with, 374-377

A British protectorate, 486
Neutralization, why impossible in Asiatic
statecraft, 482

Nimeguen, peace ratified at, in 1678, 40
Nizam of Haidarabad surrenders at

Kurdla, 302, 307

Non-Regulation system, methods of, 454
North, Lord, 228, 229

Provisions of the Regulating Act of,
229-231

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