Cornwallis, Lord, appointed Governor-General, 78; proclaims the perpetual settlement, 79; judicial reforms, _ib._; war against Tippu, 80; Governor-General a second time, 98; dies, _ib._ Councils, executive and legislative, _see_ Government Courts, _see_ Judicature Currie, Sir Frederic, Resident at Lahore, 161 D. Dalhousie, Lord Governor-General, 161; enters on the second Sikh war, 163; annexes the Punjab, 164; introduces British administration, 166; second Burmese war, 168; annexation of Pegu, 169; progressive policy, 170; public works, _ib._; roads, 171; railways, 173; telegraphs, 174; Ganges canal, _ib._; annexation policy, 175; question of adoption, 176; annexation of Jhansi and Oudh, 177; opens the legislative council of India, 179; leaves India, 180 Deccan, definition of the term, 2; Mohammedan Sultans of Golconda, 22; bad roads, 172 Delhi, capital of the Mogul empire, 44; flight of the Prince Imperial to Calcutta, _ib._; proposed British expedition stopped by Clive, 53; defended by Ochterlony against Holkar, 95; occupied and plundered by Nadir Shah, 144; water-way to Calcutta, 173; family of the last of the Moguls, 182; occupied by the rebel sepoys from Meerut, 208; the city and its surroundings, 210; massacre of Europeans, 213; explosion of the magazine, 214; rebel successes, 216; avenged, 219; the siege, 221; the capture, 230; imperial assemblage at, 295 Denison, Sir William, Provisional Governor-General, 286; returns to Madras, _ib._ Dharna, sitting in, 81; abolished, _ib._ Dhuleep Singh, nominal sovereign of the Punjab, 157 Dinapore, European regiment at, 186; mutiny at, 266 Dost Mohammed Khan, ruler of Afghanistan, 145; defeated by the British, 146; a prisoner at Calcutta, 147; returns to Cabul, 152; recovers Peshawar during second Sikh war, 162, 163; helped by the British in the Persian war, 181; death, 290; wars between his sons, 291 Dravidian races, 142 Dumdum arsenal, near Calcutta, 186; musketry school at, 192 Dupleix, French Governor of Pondicherry, 32; his brilliant success, 33; appointed Nawab of the Carnatic, _ib._; ruin of his schemes by Clive, 34; return to France, _ib._; disgrace and death of, _ib._ Durand, Sir H., Foreign Secretary, 288; relations with Sir John Lawrence, 289; proposed restoration of Mysore, 292 Dutch, settlements of, 9 E.