Nizam of the Deccan, 33, 82; disbandment of his French battalions, 83; accepts subsidiary alliance with the British government, 89; political relations, 290 _note_ Non-intervention, policy of, 82; sad results, 99; bad effects in Rajputana, 106; in the Punjab, 158 Northbrook, Lord, Viceroy and Governor-General, 295 North-West Provinces, land settlement of, 167; revolt and suppression, 231 Nott, General, at Candahar, 146, 151; advances on Cabul, 152 Nundcomar, his charges against Warren Hastings, 67; arrested on charge of forgery, _ib._; trial and execution, _ib._ O. Ochterlony, Colonel, defends Delhi from Holkar, 97; services in the war against Nipal, 109; operations against Bhurtpore, 216 Orissa, a province of Bengal, 44, 127; village communities, 129 Oudh, old aggressions on Bengal, 44, 47; settlement of Lord Clive with the Nawab Vizier, 53; case of the Begums, 76; acquisitions of Lord Wellesley, 91; annexation by Lord Dalhousie, 177, 178; land settlement, 182; disaffection of the talukdars, 183; discontent of sepoys, 184, 190, 202; Sir Henry Lawrence, chief commissioner, 203; disaffection, 220; mutiny and rebellion, 259, 262; peace restored, 272; causes of revolt, 273; settlement of Lord Lawrence with the talukdars, 292 Outram, Sir James, his mission to the Persian Gulf, 181; joins Havelock, 269; chief commissioner of Oudh, 270 P. Parliament, interference in India, 75, 135; Charters of 1813 and 1833; opening out trade, etc., 138; creates the Legislative Council of India, and introduces competitive examinations, 178; transfers India from the Company to the Crown, 275; Council Act of 1861, 284 Patna, massacre at, 52; Mohammedan plots, 220, 266 Peacock, Sir Barnes, revises Penal Code, 180 Pegu annexed by Lord Dalhousie, 169, 170 Peishwa, Mahratta, his feudatories jealous of the British, 186; refuses the subsidiary alliance, 89; flight to British territory, 92; accepts subsidiary alliance at Bassein, _ib._; disaffected, 99; intrigues, 111; hostility, 115; defeat and flight, 116; extinction, 119; at Bithoor, 245 Penal Code, drafted by Lord Macaulay, revised by Sir Barnes Peacock, 180 Persia, mission of John Malcolm, 103; collision with British India, 140; menaced by Russia, 141; advance of Russia checkmated by Nadir Shah, 143; Persian invasion of India, 144; British expedition to the Persian Gulf, 181; its return to India, 217