East India Company, charter and factories, 1; English house at Surat, 4; territory and fortress at Madras, 7; Fort St. George, 12; charter from James II. for municipal corporation, 16; settlement at Bombay, 24; at Hughly, 25; war against the Great Mogul, 26; submission, 27; war with France, 32; saved by Robert Clive, 34; Black Hole tragedy, 35; Plassy, 42; exasperated by their civil servants at Calcutta, 53; accepts the office of Dewan for Bengal, Behar, and Orissa, 54; orders Warren Hastings to assume the direct administration, 56; false position of the Company in Bengal, 69; first war against the Mahrattas, 71; Fox's hostile India bill, 75; Pitt's Board of Control, 76; trial of Warren Hastings, 77; wars of Lord Wellesley, 84; conquest of Mysore, 86; annexation of the Carnatic, 88; subsidiary alliances, 89; second Mahratta war, 94; recall of Lord Wellesley from Bengal, 98; recall of Lord William Bentinck from Madras, 101; war against Nipal, 108; Pindhari and Mahratta wars, 110; paramount power in India, 120; first Burmese war, _ib._; administration of Lord William Bentinck, 123; stages in the relations between the Company and the Crown, 135; old East India House, 136; patronage under Pitt's bill, 137; charters of 1813 and 1833 granted by Parliament, 138; abolition of licences, _ib._; constitutional changes, 139; appointment of Lord Macaulay, _ib._; charter of 1833, its evil results, _ib._; an Asiatic power, 141; first Sikh war, 154; second Sikh war, 161; acquisition of the Punjab, 165; second Burmese war, 168; splendid administration of Lord Dalhousie, 170; question of adoption, 175; annexation of Oudh, 177; end of charter of 1833, 178; competitive examinations for the Indian civil and new legislative council of India, 179; sepoy revolt, 185, 232; end of the East India Company, 275 Edinburgh, Duke of, visit to India, 295 Education in India, 277; state system, 278; Bible teaching, 279 Edwardes, Herbert, defeats rebels at Multan, 161, 162; opposes withdrawal from Peshawar, 229 Elgin, Lord, sends British regiments to Lord Canning, 233; Viceroy and Governor-General, 286 Ellenborough, Lord, Governor-General, 151; hears news of Khyber Pass disaster, _ib._; interferes in Gwalior, 152; recalled, 154; proposes removal of the Delhi family, 182 Elphinstone, Mountstuart, his mission to Cabul, 103; Resident at Poona, 112; negotiations with the Mahratta Peishwa, 113; destruction of his library, 116; Governor of Bombay, 134; conservatism in India, 299; its failure, 300 Empress of India, proclamation of, 295 F.