CONTENTS. 



Holkar— Defeat of Sindia and the Peishwa— Subsidiary Alliance with 

 Britain — Opening of the Campaign — General Wellesley enters Foo- 

 nah— Negotiations with Sindia and the Rajah of Berar— Hostilities 

 commenced — Battle of Assaye— Of Argaom— Siege of Gawilghur— 

 Treaty with the Rajah of Befar— Force of the Enemy in Central Hin- 

 dostan— Battle of Coel— Capture of Alighur— Reduction of Delhi— 

 The Mogul Emperor— Final Defeat of the Enemy — Treaty with 

 Sindia — Rupture with Holkar — Retreat of Colonel Monson — Siege of 

 Delhi — Defeats sustained by Holkar — Siege of Bhurtpore — Repulse of 

 the English— Treaty— Hostile Conduct of Sindia— New System of 

 Policy in Britain — Marquis Cornwallis comes out as Governor-gene- 

 ral — Dies, and is succeeded by Sir George Barlow — Treaties with 

 Sindia and Holkar— Lord Minto's Administration 128 



CHAPTER V. 



PINDAREE WAR, AND CONQUEST OF THE MAHRATTAS. 



Progress of the Pindarees — Their Character — Ameer Khan — Arrange- 

 ments with the Peishwa — Trimbuckjee— He murders the Guzerat 

 Minister — Is delivered up to the English — Escapes — Concessions re- 

 quired from the Peishwa — Marquis of Hastings arrives in India — Rup- 

 ture with Nepaul— Death of General Gillespie— Successes of Ochter- 

 lony— Negotiations— Renewal of the War— Final Treaty— Alliance 

 formed with Berar— Irruptions of the Pindarees— Opening of the Cam- 

 paign against them— Treaties with Sindia and Ameer Khan— The 

 Cholera attacks the Grand Army — Rise and Diffusion of that Malady 

 in India — Alarming Accounts from Poonah — Operations against the 

 Pindarees— The Adherents of Holkar join them— Battle of Mehidpoor 

 — Treaty— Final Catastrophe of the Pindaree Chiefs — Movements of 

 the Peishwa— He attacks the English— His Repulse and continued 

 Flight — Repeated Defeats — Surrender— intrigues at Nagpore — The 

 Rajah attacks the English — Issue of the Contest— His Escape— Sub- 

 sequent Transactions— Contest with Bhurtpore — Conclusion 174 



CHAPTER VI. 



HINDOO HISTORY AND MYTHOLOGY. 



General Aspect of the Hindoo People— Absence of authentic History — 

 Historical Poems — Indian Chronology — Series of Dynasties— Mythol- 

 ogy— Ideas of the Divine Nature— Bramah — Vishnu— His Avatars or 

 Transformations— Siva— Doorga— Kalee — Minor Deities — Worship of 

 Rivers— Of the Brute Creation— A Future State— Transmigration of 

 Souls — Ancient Temples — Elephanta — Kenneri— Carli — Ellora — Ma- 

 habalipoor— Pagoda at Tanjore — Temples in Rajpootana — Modern 

 Structures — Religious Rites — Mendicity — Pilgrimages — Penances — 

 Self-immolation — Idol Cars — Suttee — Infanticide— Hindoo Sects— 

 Vishnuvites — Sivites — Boodhists — Seiks — Native Christians — 

 Jews • . 208 



CHAPTER VII. 



Hindoo Manners and literature. 

 National Character— Government— Village System— Castes— Bramins 

 — Cshatryas— Vaisyas— Sudras— Mixed— Loss of Caste— Pariahs— 



