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INDEX to the Article HINDOOSTAN, 
ABDALLAH KHAN, the Syed,' general 
■'*- of the army of Ferokhfere, 59 ; be¬ 
comes vi?ier, 60 j the emperor is jealous 
of him, 61 j depofes the emperor, and 
orders him to be murdered, 62 ; forced 
to fly, he fets up a pretender to the 
throne, 63 ; defeated and taken, but li¬ 
berated, 64. 
Abdulralhid, king of Gazna and India, mur¬ 
dered, 12. 
Abu Beker, his fhort reign, 29. 
Aden attacked by the Portuguefe, 80. 
Agimere, defertof, 182. 
Agra, 2; made an imperial city, greatly 
injured by an earthquake, 34 ; continues 
to be the feat of the Mogul empire, 35; 
beautified by Akbar, 40 ; defolated by Je- 
han, 47 j taken by general Lake, 108 ; 
now belongs to the Mahrattas, 182. 
Ahmed Shah, emperor, 68 j depofed, and 
his eyes put out, 62. 
Ahmed Shah Abdallah, chief of the Af¬ 
ghans, invades Hindooftan, 68 ; acquires 
Lahore and Moultan, and plunders Delhi, 
69; marries the daughter of the emperor 
Mohammed, 70 ; places the rightful 
prince on the throne of Hindooftan, 71. 
Akbar, emperor, 1 ; his palace at Agra, 2, 
40; his birth, 37; afeends the throne, 
40 ; his magnificent works, he quells va¬ 
rious infurretlions, 4°, 4 1 i his invafion 
of the Deccan, domeftic afflictions, and 
death, 42; and charafter, 43. 
Akbar II. 73, 78. 
Akbar, fon of Aulum II. 73; imprifoned 
and beaten, 75 i his meannefs, 77 ; fuc- 
ceeds his father as emperor, if fo he can 
be called, 78 ; his prefent forlorn ftate, 
178. 
Akit, brother to Alla king of Delhi, 25; 
wounds Alla, and afeends his throne, but 
is foon put to death, 26. 
Albuquerque, the Portuguefe admiral, foiled 
in his attempt upon Calicut, 79 ; fubdues 
Goa, Malacca, Mafkat, and Ormu3; his 
projefls and his death, 8c. 
Alexander the Grea", his invafion of India; 
extent of his progrefs, 2 ; his commercial 
arrangements, and death, 4. 
Alla, governor of Gaur, 14. 
Alla ul Dien, governor of Kurrah and Oude, 
invades the Deccan, 24; returns with 
Incredible treafure, murders Che king of 
Delhi, afeends the throne, repels the Mo¬ 
guls, his ingratitude, 25 ; wounded, but 
recovers, his aftonifhing riches obtained by 
invafions of the Deccan, 26 ; his death, 
27. 
Alla II. removes to Budaoon, and refigns the 
empire, 33. 
Allygur taken by colonel Monfon, 106. 
Altumlh, king of Delhi, 21. 
Annindeo, king of Malva, 6. 
Aram, king of Delhi, 21. 
Argaum, battle of, no. 
Arfilla, king of Gazna, 13. 
Afoph ul Dowlali, 72. 
Aflye, battle of, 104, III. 
Aulum Geer, emperor, 69; murdered, 70. 
Aulum Shah, fon of Aurungzebe, 53; comes 
to aftion with his brother for the throne, 
54; gains the battle, and afeends the 
"throne, changing his name to Benadur, 
marches into the Deccan, and fubdues his 
younger brother, 55; defeats the Seiks, 
and dies, his amiable character, 56; cha¬ 
racters of his font, 57. 
Aulum Shah II. calls the Mahrattas to his 
afiiftance, 715 who afterwardsturn againft 
him, and render him a mere cipher, 72 ; 
deferted by the Mahrattas, and depofed 
by the R-ohillas, 73; his eyes put out, 
75 j fuffers various indignities, hunger, 
&c 76; releafed by the Mahrattas, 775 
delivered from them by the Englilh, his 
death, 78. 
Aurungzebe, fon of Shah Jehan, his hypo- 
crify, 48 ; afiifts his brother Morad, 49 j 
whom he afterwards imprifons, as well 
as his father, 503 affumes the diadem, 
defeats and murders his brother Dara, and 
is deferted by his own fon, 51 3 caufes 
all his brothers and his nephew to be poi- 
foned, 52; invades the Deccan, which he 
completely fubdues, his death and cha¬ 
racter, 53; his will, &c. 54. 
Azeem Oolhaun, fecond fon of the emperor 
Behadur, pretends to the throne, but is 
killed, 57. 
Azem Shah, fecond fon of Aurungzebe, 
feizes on the throne at his father’s death, 
54; is killed in the firft battle, 55. 
Baber the Mogul, 34; founder of the Mo¬ 
gul dynafty in Hindooftan, 35; his wars, 
and death, 36. 
Bachera, king of Tahera, 7. 
Balin, governor of Lahore, 14. 
Balia the younger, king of Delhi, 22 j his 
death, 23. 
Bamian, fiege of, 19; horrid fate, 20. 
Bafdeo, emperor of India, 6. 
Beder Bukht made emperor by Gholaum 
Kaudir, 73; his treatment, 74. 
Beluli Lodi, governor of Sirhind, afterwards 
king of Delhi, 33. 
Bengal made over to the Englilh by Shah 
Aulum II. 97. 
Bickermajeet, emperor of India, 5. 
Bokhara taken and plundered by Gengis* 
17; burnt, 18. 
Bombay ceded to the Englilh, 83. 
Bonapirte’s letter toTippoo, 99 ; his farther 
views and intentions, 101; attempts an 
alliance with the court of Perfia, 114. 
Biahme, the Supreme God of the ancient 
Hindoos, 115; degraded by the feCt of 
Vailhnavas, 116". 
Brahmins, their employments and privi¬ 
leges, 121, 123; drefs, &c. 1225 duties, 
130. 
Bunda, chief of the Seiks, 61. 
Burfpour, rajah of, his treachery, 113 ; ob- 
ftinate refiftance, and fubmilfion, 114, 
182. 
Byram, king of Gazna, 14. 
Byram II. king of Delhi, 21. 
Cafoor, a Mohammedan general, 26; de- 
fervedly put to death, 27. 
Calicut, the Portuguefe land there, 79. 
Candi, king of Delhi, 15. 
Cznouge, its former magnificence, 2; re¬ 
duced by Mahmood, 9; again plundered 
by Mohammed, 15. 
Calls or tribes among the Hindoos, 1213 
mixed daffes or calls, 122. 
Central Hindooftan, 181. 
Charazm, city of, 18. 
Charazmian dynafty, 16. 
Chidja, viceroy of Kurrah, 24. 
Chizer the fon of Alla, 27. 
Chizer Khan, founder of the Seyd dynafty, 
32 - 
Ch»fro I. and II. in whom ends the Gazna- 
vian dynafty, 14, Chofso III. 27. 
Chout, a tax peculiaftto the Deccan, 178. 
Chrifhna, a fymbol of the Sun, 119. 
Clive, Mr. 84; takes Arcot, 85; recovers 
Calcutta, 86 ; defeats Surajah Dowlah at 
the battle of Plafley, 87 ; returns to Eu¬ 
rope, 91 j made a lord, and fent back tip 
India with extraordinary powers, which 
he exerts in an extraordinary manner, 97. 
Cornwallis, lord, 98. 
Cuttub the Have, 15; king of Delhi, 21. 
Cuttub, king of Golconda in the Deccan, 47. 
Dara, fon of Shah Jehan, 47; afeends the 
throne in his father’s life-time, but is 
forced to fly, 48 j defeated, 49 } again 
defeated, and murdered, 51. 
Deccan, firft Mohammedan invafion of, 24 ; 
fecond, third, and fourth. 26; invaded by 
Akbar, 40, 41; by Jehan Shah, 47; 
completely fubdued by Aurungzebe, 52 3 
the French interfere in the government* 
69; and the Englilh, 70. 
Delhi, the ancient Inderput, 2 ; laid under 
tribute by Mahmood Gaznair, 8; firft 
dynafty of Mohammedan kings reigning 
there, 21 ; the Afghan dynafty, 24; at¬ 
tempt to render it defolate, 28 ; blockaded 
by Tamerlane, 29 ; taken after a defpe- 
rate battle, 30; plundered and almoft: 
deftroyed, 31 ; ceafes to be a royal refi- 
dence, 3 ; ; reftored by Jehan Shah, 46 ; 
plundered by Nadir Shah, .king of Perfia* 
67 ; by Abdallah, 69 ; by the Mahrattas, 
70 ; battle near, 106, 7 ; the prefent re¬ 
sidence of Akbar Shah, 182. 
Deogur, or Dowtalabad, capital of the Dec- 
can, 24-263 beautified by Mohammed* 
28. 
Dupleix, M. governor of Pondicherry, 84 ; 
allumes the ftate of nabob ol the Carnatic, 
but is recalled, 85. 
Dutch fettlements in Hindooftan, 82 ; jea¬ 
lous of the Englilh, treaty made and 
broken, 83. 
Eaft-India Company acquire the whole of 
Bengal, 97 5 their immenfe power and 
iniquity, 98 ; acquire the Myfore empire 
by lord Mornington’s vidtories, 99 ; af- 
fume the government of the Carnatic, 
100; and of Rohilcund, 101; more ter¬ 
ritory taken from the rajah of Berar, and 
from Scindia, ill 5 ftom the rajah of 
Burtpour, 114. . 
Eldoze, king of Gazna, 21. 
Elephanta, cave of, 171. 
Englilh begin to form plans for eftablifhments 
in Hindooftan, 82 3 voyages of Hawkins 
and others, fettlements formed, 83 3 
worfted by the French, interfere in the 
quarrels of the native princes, 84; fet 
up a nabob of the Carnatic, 85 ; and of 
Bengal, 86 ; worfted by the French, 88 ; 
rout and expel them in turn, 89 ; their 
lhameful behaviour to Meer Jaffier, 91, 
92 ; foon become as jealous of Meer Cof¬ 
fin), 93 ; and reftore Jaffier, 94; declare 
war againft the nabob of Oude, 95 ; de¬ 
feat him, and get the emperor into thefr 
hands, 96; acquire immenfe territory, 
97-101 ; alfift the Peifhwa againft Scindia, 
&c. 102 ; conclude the war by reducing 
the rajah of Burtpour and Holkar to their 
own terms, and fend an embafl'y to Perfia 
to counteraft the defigns of the Frencii, 
114 ; the moft powerful ftate in India, 
178; officers of government, 185. 
Feroch Zaad, king of Gazna, 13. 
FerokJafers, giandfoe of the emperor Beha- 
