Carnatic in Southern India, conquered by Aurangzeb, 22; war between Great Britain and France, 32; interference of the Nawab, _ib._; rival Nawabs, 33; invasions of Hyder, 74; acquired by Lord Wellesley and incorporated with the Madras Presidency, 87, 88 Cashmere, conquered by Runjeet Singh, 103; sold by Lord Hardinge to Golab Singh, 160; relations with the British government, 289 Caste in Bengal army, 191; its disadvantages, _ib_. Cavagnari, Sir Louis, murdered at Cabul, 297 Cawnpore on the Ganges, British cantonment in Lord Lake's time, 94; position, 171, 175; outbreak of the sepoy mutinies, 233; story of Cawnpore, 243; peril of General Wheeler, 244; palace of Nana Sahib at Bithoor, 245; suspense, 248; mutiny, 251; treachery of Nana Sahib, 252; revolting cruelties, _ib._; massacre, 254; advance of Havelock, 256; story of the "well," 258; defeat of Wyndham, 272; victory of Sir Colin Campbell, _ib._ Central India, feudatory Asiatic states and chiefships, 289 _note_ Central Provinces, under Home Office, 297 Chamberlain, Neville, his flying column in the Punjab, 224; services at the siege of Delhi, 227, 230 Charnock, Job, imprisoned and scourged by the Nawab of Bengal, 25; flies to Madras, 27; founds Calcutta, 28 Charters, _see_ East India Company Child, Sir Joseph, frames a municipal corporation for Madras, 16; makes war on the Great Mogul, 25; plans the protection of British trade in India by three great fortresses, 26; his humiliation, 27 Chillianwalla, battle of, 163, 164 China, East India Company's trade with, 138 Chout, paid by the Mogul to the Mahrattas, 28; plunder of Bengal and the Carnatic for non-payment, 32; Mahratta demands on the Nizam, 82; demanded by Holkar, 96 Clavering, General, appointed member of council, 66; insolence to Warren Hastings and Elijah Impey, 67, 68 Cleveland, Augustus, humanises the Sonthals, 78 Clive, Robert, saves British interests in India by the capture of Arcot, 34; expedition to Calcutta after the Black Hole disaster, 40; victory at Plassy, 42; instals a new Nawab, 43; relieves the Mogul Prince Imperial, 45; refuses the post of Dewan to the Great Mogul, _ib._; offers it to William Pitt, 46; Governor of British settlements in Bengal, 53; accepts the Dewani, 54; returns to England, 55; inferior authority to that of Warren Hastings, 56 Code, Penal, 281 Colvin, Mr. John, besieged in fortress of Agra, 220, 231 _note_ Combermere, Lord, captures fortress of Bhurtpore, 122 Company, _see_ East India