CALCUTTA, 16; panic at, 26-28; 37, 39, 41,
75, 94.

Calicut, settlement at, 12.
Cambay, settlement at, 11.
Canning, Mr, 295.

Canning, Lord, on maintenance of native
states, 358; adoption minute of, 395;
annexation of Dhar, 395; and Lord
Stanley, 396; and the smaller States,
397.

Canora, Colonel, 346.

jaghire, 16; grant of new powers to, 19;
Suraja Dowla's opinion of, 33; 39; ex-
tortion of the servants of, 47; treaty
with Mir Jaffir, 49, 50; cheated by its
servants, 56; farmers-general of the
revenues of Orissa, Behar, and Bengal,
60; taxed by Parliament, 70; conduct
of, towards Hyder Ali, 145, 146, 152;
impolicy in regard to conquest, 226; dis-
solution of, 393.

Condore, battle of, 42.

Classes in India, relation of, to the soil,
108, 109.

Clavering, General, 83, 114, 121, 123, 127,
130, 135.

Clive, Robert, character and antecedents

of, 21; expedition to recapture Bengal,
29; treaty with Suraja Dowla, 29; ac-
count of the runaway council, 30; pro-
posal to destroy the French settlement
at Chandernagore, 31, 32; dominant in-
fluence in the council, 33; perfidy of,
35; bill of costs, 36; moderation, 37;
dishonesty, 39; a new dignity, 42;
letter to Pitt, 42; return home, re-
wards, and peerage; Mir Jaffir's legacy
to, 44, 53; political influence, 56; ap-
pointment as general-in-chief of the
forces in Asia, 57; letter to Mr Rouse,
57; arrival in Calcutta, 59; effect on, of
a tropical sun, 64; and the Directors,
65; impeachment, 78; suicide, 79; and
Hastings, 87, 91, 92, 117.

Close, Colonel, 256.

Cobden, 8; on Burmese war, 356.
Colebrooke, Sir G., 79.

Committee, select, 59.

Commons, House of, and the Company,
69.

Company, East India, first charter, 11;
original aims, 11; first settlement, 11,
12; first grant of jurisdiction, 12; com-
mercial intolerance and cruelties, 12;
first eighty years of, 13; "abject" sub-
missiveness of, 13; rupture with chiefs
of Bengal, 14; first attempt at aggression,
15; aims of territorial acquisition, 15;
insidious doings, 16; first grant of a

Control, Board of, 159, 160, 162, 165, 203,
231, 251.

Coorg, 192, 193; annexation of, 300.
Coote, Sir E., 151.

Cornwallis, Lord, 8, 139; 153, 174, 185,
191, 193, 195; on Bengal, 197; on
the conquest frenzy, 252; return to
India, 252; embarrassments, 253; policy
of, 255; regrets, 256; opinions as to
empire in India, 257; conference with
Wellesley, 259; death, 260.

Cosimbuzar, factory at, 15, 25, 26, 27.
Council, Calcutta, 27, 30. 33, 34, 35, 36,
38, 41, 44, 45, 46, 50, 59, 62; (Warren
Hasting's,) 83, 114, 115, 121-124, 127.
Court, a phantom, 176, 177.

Courts, supreme, native judges in, 405.
Crisis of 1857, 397.

Crown, paramount power of, 358, 359;
lapse to the, 359, 362.

Custom dues, and the Company's servants,
47, 49, 58.

DALHOUSIE, LORD, arrival, 336; embar-
rassments, 340; annexation of Punjab,
340, 350; and Pegu, 353, 355; policy
of appropriation, 362; 368, 370, 374, 375,
377, 378, 379, 383; and the Nawab of
Bengal, 383, 384; and the Nizam, 385;
and Oude, 386–390; and Mysore, 398.
Deccan, the French in, 20, 23; musnud
of, 141.

Delhi, and its court, 10; first English
embassy to, 11; 12, 13, 18, 19, 25, 32,
60; durbar, 61; court of, 98, 99, 105,
106, 291, 292.

Despotism, Indian, not exceptional, 103.
Devecotah, fort and jaghire, 20, 21.
"Devil's brother," the, 332.
Dewan, the, of Bengal, 60.
Dewanny, gift of, 53, 60, 61, 62; 197-98,
204.

Dhar, and its rajah, 394-396; "plunder,"
397.

Dhuleep, Singh, 330, 332, 333, 334, 336,
341, 343, 350–53.

Directors, court of, 26, 43, 56, 63, 65, 79,
82, 90, 154, 155, 159, 160, 164, 165, 251,
363-64, 389.

Doctrine, the, of lapse to the crown, 283.
Dost Mahommed, 310-15, 341, 349.
Dowlat Rao Scindia, 283–84.
Dundas, Mr, 154, 162, 163, 171, 172, 175.
Dupleix, 19, 20, 22; wife of, 19.
Dutch, the, in India, 2; successful
struggle with the Portuguese, 10; 11,
12; and English, 30; 140, 189.

EDWARDES, Sir H., 339, 340, 343, 348.
Effrontery, solemn, of the Calcutta Council,
62.

Ek-Chusm-ul-Dowla, 261.

Ellenborough, Lord, 315, 316, 322, 326, 327,
329.

Elliott, Sir Gilbert, 263.
Ellis, Mr, 48, 49.

Elphinstone, General, 313-15.

English, the, in India, arrival and first out-
looks of, 2, 3; their inveterate lust of
conquest and territorial acquisition, 6;
settlements of, at Surat, Cambay, Ahme-
dabad, 11; at Calicut and Masulipatam,
12; prowess in the defence of Surat, 13;
at Madras, 18; at Calcutta, 19, 25.
Expenditure, excessive, 409.
Experiment, an, 335.

FAWCETT, Mr, 420.

Finances, Indian, under Hastings, 166.
Forde, Colonel, 41, 42.

Forgery, crime of, in India, 126.
Fowke and Bristowe, 131, 132.

Fox, J. C., on arbitrary rule, 1; 8, 155, 161,
167, 168, 171, 173.

Francis, Sir P., 83, 114, 121, 123, 124, 127,
130-133; speech of, 157, 158, 167, 174, 175.
France, 210; fear of, 212; 216.

French, the, in India, arrival and first out-
looks of, 2; ambitious views of, 19;
struggle of, with English, 19, 21; conces
sion for peace, 22; in the Carnatic, 23;
vigorous action against the English, 26;
conduct of, towards the English in Cal-
cutta, 31; at Chandernagore, 31, 33, 31,
140, 217; powerlessness of, 218.
Fuller, Mr, motion of, 70.
Fyzoola Khan, 120.

Hastings, Warren, 27, 75; character of, 80;
appointment as first Governor-General,
83, 84; antecedents, 85; a Grecian, and
something more, 86; a spy under Clive,
88; literary ambitions and Dr Johnson;
88; meanness and munificence of, 89;
marriage, 90; at Madras, 91; at Calcutta,
91; counsel to the Directors, 94; and
Anglo-Indian jurisprudence, 112, 113;
object of his diplomacy, 114; and the
Vizier of Oude, 115, 118; and treaty of
Benares, 121; and his colleagues, 121: com-
plaints against, 122; letter to Lord North,
123; tried and convicted by his col-
leagues, 125; and Nuncomar, 125, 126;
tenders resignation and then with-
draws it, 130; unnatural compact with
Asuph-ul-Dowla, 137; condemnation and
demand for recall of, 154; and the
Mahratta war, 156; proposition of a
peerage to, 163; resignation, 164; letter
to directors, 164; administration, 165;
return, 167; impeachment, 167; defence,
170; Sheridan's estimate of, 173; arraign-
ment in Westminster Hall, 175, 177;
acquittal, 181.

Hastings, Lord, on the beau ideal of rule,
in India, 278; and Vizier of Oude, 388.
Hastings, Marquis of. See Lord Moira.
Hastings, Mrs, 164, 167.
Herat, siege of, 310.
Hindustan, people of, 10; beginning of
conquest of, 21; secret of conquest of,
221.

Holkar, 239-41, 244, 249, 250, 260, 261,
272, 277, 278, 288.

Holwell, Mr, 27; memorial of, 45, 46.
Hooghly, the first settlements on, 16, 26;
Phonsdar of, 122.

Hunter, Dr, quotation from, 66.
Hurry Punt, interrogatory of, 254.
Hyderabad, 143, 216; treasury of, 326.
Hyder Ali, 105, 142–151.

IMHOFF, Baron and Baroness, 89, 90, 130.
Imbecility, official, 414, 415.

Impey, Elijah, 86, 113, 127, 137, 138, 154,
174, 182, 183.

India in 1600, in relation to Europe, 1;
effects on, of doubling the Cape, 2;
present extent and population, 3, 4;
present political condition contrasted
with its past, in the days of Walpole
and the elder Pitt, 3, 4; completed sub-
jugation of to British sway, 4; 393, 394;
first voyage, by the Cape, 9; Southern,
17; secret of conquest of, 22; bankers of,
37, 38; not a mine of fabulous wealth,
41; a new El Dorado, 53, 54; turning-
point in the fortunes of, 61; stock, 56,
68, 82; economy, 266; complete pacifi-
cation, 336.

Watts, Mr, 27, 32, 33, 36.

Wellesley, Lord, administration of, an
epoch, 226; advice, 227; regard for trap-
pings of royalty, 229; love of glory, 230;
expensiveness, 231; indifference to Lead-
enhall Street, 232; disposal of Oude,
233; military policy, 234; inexorable
finance arrangements, 234, 235; his place
in the history of our Indian empire, 235;
and Leadenhall Street, 237, 238; scheme
of a college for Indian statesmen, 238;
resignation tendered and refused, 239;
treaty dictated to the Peishwa, 242, 243;
correspondence with the Mahratta chiefs,
245-247; extravagant rule, 251; 378. See
Wellington.

Wellington, Duke of, on extension of terri-
tory, 210; 296; and the Rajah of Mysore,
398. See Wellesley.

Wheler, appointment as Governor-General,

130.

William, Fort, erection of, 16; surren ler
27; 127.

Wine, new, in old bottles, 112.
Wynaad, 217, 218, 221, 222.