India Under British Rule from the Foundation of the East India CompanyWheeler, James Talboys
History
India Under British Rule from the Foundation of the East India Company
Wheeler, James Talboys
India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947
Ferozshahar, battle of, 158, 159
Foreign Office, Indian, relations with Asiatic states, 289;
misleading term, 290 _note_
Fort St. George, _see_ Madras
Fort William, _see_ Calcutta
Francis, Mr. Philip, member of Bengal Council, reputed author of
the _Letters of Junius_, 66;
jealous hatred of Warren Hastings, _ib._;
bitter charges against Hastings and Impey, 67, 68;
denounces appointment of Impey to the Sudder, 70;
fights a duel and returns to England, 75
Frere, Sir Bartle, Governor of Bombay, 286;
his career, 287
Frontier tribes on the north-west, 225
G.
Gaekwar of Baroda, 112, 289 _note_
Ganges canal, 174
Ganges, river, 171, 175
George III., his hostility to Fox's India Bill, 137;
accepts presents from Warren Hastings, 296
Ghorka, conquest of Nipal, 106;
war against British government, 108-110
Gillespie, Colonel, commands garrison at Arcot, 100;
suppresses mutiny at Vellore, 101
Goa, the capital of Portuguese India, 2
Goddard, Colonel, leads an expedition from Calcutta to Bombay
against Mahratta country, 73
Godwin, General, commands expedition to Burma, 169
Golab Singh buys Cashmere from Lord Hardinge, 160
Goojerat, battle of, 164
Gough, Sir Hugh, commands army in Gwalior, 153;
his victory at Maharajpore, 154;
battles at Moodki and Ferozshahar, 158;
at Sobraon, 159;
Chillianwalla, 163;
Goojerat, 164
Government, old merchant rule in Madras, 5, 8, 12;
municipal experiments, 14, 16;
Nawab rule in Bengal, 43;
offer of the Dewani, 45;
Great Mogul installed in British factory at Patna, 48;
collision between the British and the Nawab in Bengal, 49;
Clive's double government, 54;
Warren Hastings a sovereign ruler, 56;
British zemindar at Calcutta, 59;
appointment of British collectors, 61;
members of council at Calcutta appointed by Parliament, 65;
quarrels, 66;
Governor-General in Council empowered by parliament to make laws, 69;
changes under the charter of 1833, 135;
executive council remodelled by Lord Canning, 280;
legislative councils of 1854 and 1861-6, 179, 284;
relations of legislative and executive, 293;
British India a school for Asiatics, 297
Govind, Guru, 155;
founder of the Sikh Khalsa, 156
Graves, Brigadier, commands station at Delhi, 209, 210;
preparations to resist rebel sepoys from Meerut, 211;
escapes to Flagstaff Tower, 213
Gubbins, Mr. Frederic, his municipal reforms at Benares, 235, 236
Gwalior, fortress of, captured, 73;
interference and war by Lord Ellenborough, 152
Gwalior contingent formed, 154;
mutiny of, 228, 229;
victory of, at Cawnpore, 272
H.
Hands, Right and Left, Hindu antagonism in Southern India, 10, 11;
_see_ also 39 _note_
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