900 
dur, Invades the empire poffefted by his 
uncle, 59; afcends the throne, aCts with 
jreat cruelty, 60 ; plots of the eriiperor 
and his minifters againft each other, the 
Seiks fubdued, 61; his cowardice, equal 
to his cruelty; he is depofed, tortured, 
62; and at length killed, 63. 
Ferofe I. king of Delhi, 21. 
Ferofe II. lirft of the Afghan dynafty, 24 5 
murdered, 2 5. 
Ferofe III. a benevolent prince, 28. 
Frazer, major-general, routs the enemy at 
Dcig, and receives his death.wound, 113. 
French Eaft-India Company, and their, fet- 
tlerr.ents in India, 82 ; jealous of the Eng¬ 
lish, 98 ; foiled in their engagement with 
Tippoo, 995 and with tire nabob of Arcot, 
jeo; join the Mahrattas, 100; renew 
their attempts, 101; foiled, 102, 
Gangetic Hindooftan, 181. 
Gauride dynally, 15. 
Gawil Ghur deferibed, no; taken by the 
Britifti, hi. 
Gaznavian dynafty, 7-15. 
Gclaleadin, fon of Mohammed the Great, 
17; fucceeds him in the title of fultan of 
Charazm, 19; his heroic behaviour and 
unfortunate end, 20. 
Gengis Khan, 16; invades India, takes and 
deftroys Bokhara, 17; and Bamarcand, 
while his fons take Charazm, 18; befieges 
Bamian, 19; dreadful fate of trial place, 
end of the Charazmian dynafty, 20 ; his 
death, 21-36. 
Ghazee ul Dien, fon of .Nizam ul Muluk, 68; 
his proceedings in the Deccan, his trea¬ 
chery, 695 murders Aulumgeer, and flies. 
.Gholaum Kaudir, his treatment of the em¬ 
peror Aulum, 73; of the royal family, 
and the emperor he had l'et up himfelf, 
74; his peculiar cruelty to Aulum, 75; 
ftarves women to death, 76 ; leaves Delhi 
on the approach of the Mahrattas, but is 
taken, and fuffers a mod painful death, 
77 -’ 
Gwalior, a ftrong place, ufed as a ftate-pri- 
fon, 50-52. 
Harcourt, colonel, his operations in the 
Cattack, 105. 
Haftings, Mr. 97; impeached, 98. 
Herodotus, his (lender notices of ancient 
India, 3. 
Heron, colonel, plunders Indian temples, 
85 ; his cruelty, and difgrace, 86. 
Hindooftan, names and divifions, r ; ancient 
places, 2; original inhabitants, 3; ancient 
hiftory, Alexander’s invafton, Seleucus, 
4; native princes, 5; fubdued by the 
Mahometans, 6 ; Gaznavian dynafty, 7; 
Gauride dynafty, 15 ; Charazmian dynafty, 
16; invafion of Gengis Khan, 17; firft 
dynafty of Mohammedan kings at Delhi, 
21; Afghan dynafty, 24-32; invafions 
of the Deccan, 24 27 5 Tamerlane’s in¬ 
vafion, 29-32; dynafty of the Seyds, 
32-35; Mogul dynafty, 35 ; interrupted, 
38; reftored in the perfon of Akbar, 40; 
nothing now but a name, 78 ; account of 
l'ettlements formed by different European 
nations, 79 ; vaft power of the Englifh, 
97; religion, 115-177; calls or tribes, 
121; Vedas, or feriptures, 124 ; cereino- 
nies, 130; marriages, inheritances, adop» 
tions, 131} funeral rites, 13a; burning 
of wives, 133; bloody facrifices, 138- 
278; omens, 140; incantations, 141; 
laws, 142; ftrange modes of revenge, 
245; trials for theft, 146; fakeers, 147; 
languages, 152-185; literature, 153; 
poetry and the drama, 154 ; aftronomy 
and chronology, 162 170; architecture, 
i*7 3 ‘ 1 74> climate and feafons, 174; man- 
I N D E X. 
ners and drefs, 175; women, 176; agri¬ 
culture and produce, 177 ;, manufactures,. 
178; prefent ftate, 180-185; towns, ri¬ 
vers, forefts, botany, animals, &c. 182 ; 
reptiles, minerals, metals, &c. 183; 
trades, mufic, fervants, 184; officers, 
185 ; complicated, method of dividing the 
day and night, 292. 
Hinglais Ghur, one of HolkaVs forts, 113. 
Hirpaldeo, prince of Deogur, 27. 
Holkar, a Mahratta chief, 70; humbles the 
emperor after aflifting him, 72 ; his far¬ 
ther defigns, 102 ; at war with the com¬ 
pany, iij ; entirely defeated, 113 ; forced 
to make peace, 114. 
Houffein Ali Khan, emir ul omrah to the 
emperor Ferokhfere, 6c; fent to the 
Deccan, but efcapes the emperor's trea¬ 
chery, 61 ; retaliates upon the ernperor, 
62; at length murdered, 63. 
I-lumaioon, fultan of Hindooftan, his bro¬ 
thers confpire againft him, 36; his ac¬ 
cumulated diftrefles, 37; retires to the 
court of Perfia, 38; attempts to recover 
his kingdom, 39 ; fucceeds, his death, 40. 
Hydal’pes, its various names, 1. 
Hydrabad fackcd by the Moguls, 47, 
Jagarnaut, temple of, 119, 170. 
Ibrahim, king of Gazna, 13. 
Ibrahim II. his arbitrary cenduft, 34; lofes 
his throne and life, 35. 
Ibrahim III..39; killed, 41. 
Ibrahim a pretender to the throne, 63 ; de¬ 
feated and taken, 64.' 
Jehanguir, fourth Mogul emperor, 43 ; his 
vaft riches, 44; his death, 45, 
Jehan Shah, fifth emperor, 45 ; his magni¬ 
ficence, 46 ; invades the Deccan, 47 ; his 
illnefs, his fons contend for the throne, 
48 ; his irkfome fituation, 49 ; his dupli¬ 
city punifhed, 50; dies, 52. 
Jehan Shah, fourth fon of the emperor Bc- 
hadur, defeats one of his brothers, 57 ; is 
defeated in his turn, and killed, 58, 
Jehan Shah, grandlon of Aurungzebe, 70. 
Jehander Shah, 57; fucceeds to the throne, 
having defeated and killed his three bro¬ 
thers, and governs very badly, 58 ; in¬ 
vaded by his nephew, 59; totally defeated 
and murdered, 60.. 
Jehander Shah, fon of Aulum II. 73. 
Jeipal, king of Lahore, 6; his final defeat, 
and heroic death, 7. 
Jefuits, their tyrannical perfecuting fpirit 
injures the intereft of the Portuguel'e in 
Alia and in Europe, 8 r. 
Jona, emperor of India, 5. 
Kambukfh, third fon of Aurungzebe, 53 ; 
his rafh behaviour, and death, 55. 
Karaku, battle of, 17. 
Kei Kobad, king of Delhi, 23 ; murdered, 
24. 
Kera, governor of Bengal, 23. 
Keylas, or Temple of Paradife, 172. 
Klutri caft, 12T ; its privileges, izz, 123.. 
Khofro, his rebellion and punifhment, 43. 
Lahore, 2 ; ofien ftained with blood, 7 ; re¬ 
duced by Mahmud, 10; becomes the re- 
fidence of the kings of Gazna, 13; Je¬ 
hanguir, the Mogul emperor, dies there, 
45 ; taken by the Perfians, 65. 
Lake, lord, reftores the blind Shah Aulum 
to the throne, 78, 107 ; his previous 
operations in Northern Hindooftan, 105 ; 
gains the battle of Delhi, 106, 7 ; of 
Agra, 108 ; of Lafwarree, 109 ; his ar¬ 
rangements for the war againft Holkar, 
112; which he brings to a conclulion, 
ir+. 
Lally, general, his fucceffes againft the 
Englifh, 88; defeated, and at, length 
furrenders Pondicherry, 89. 
I 
Lafwarree, battle of, log. 
Lucknow,, the capital of Oude, iSz. 
Madras, 83; taken by the French, but 
reftored at the peace,'84. 
Magaahi language, and its dialeCts, 153, 
Mahmood, fon of SubuCtagi, 6 ; founder of 
the Gaznavian dynafty, his great fucceffes 
againft the princes oflndia, 7; gains the 
battle of Perifhore; plunders the rich 
temple of Bime, alfo Tar.nafar and Delhi, 
■8 ; reduces Canouge and Matura, and 
returns to Gazna with immenfe wealth, 
9.4 defeats the rajah of-Callinger, annexes 
Lahore to his own kingdom, and attacks 
the rich temple of Sumnaut, 10; which 
he t. kes, his death, 11. 
Mahmud, fecond and laft Gauride king of 
■Gazna and India, 16. 
Mahmud II. king of Delhi, 22. 
Mahmud III. invaded by Tamerlane, 29 ; 
defeated, and fotced to fly, 30; his death, 
32. 
Mahrattas make inroads into Hindooftan, 
64 ; very fuccefsful, 70 ; driven out by 
the Afghans, but recalled by the emperor 
Shah Aulum II. 71 ; their power in- 
creafes, 72 ; oppofed by the Rohillas, 73 ; 
again victorious, 77 ; humbled, 1C2-111 ; 
prefent ftate, 178. 
Maffud afcends the throne of Gazna to the 
prejudice of his brother, 11 ; depofed and 
murdered, 12. 
Maffud II. his reign, 12. 
Maffud III. makes great conquefts in Hin¬ 
dooftan, 13. 
Maffud IV. king of Delhi, 22. 
Matura, extraordinary riches of that city 
when invaded by Mahmood, 9. 
Meer Cofiim, 91 ; nabob of Bengal, 92.; 
his policy, oppofed by the Englifh, 933 
lofes his capital, and forced to fly, 94 ; 
orders his Englifh prifoners to be mur¬ 
dered, is affifted by Suiah ul Dowlah, 95 ; 
his affairs ruined, 95. 
Meer Jaftier made bj the Englifh nabob of 
Bengal, 87 ; his conduCt, 89; accufed by 
the Englifh, 91 ; aepol'ed, 92 ; reftored, 
94 ; dies, 96. 
Meeraun, fon of Jaftier, 90; his death and 
character, 91. 
Megaflhenes’s anoient notices oflndia, 4. 
Menu, the firft-created being, 140. 
Merat taken by Tamerlane, and deftroyed, 
3 T> 
Modud, king of Gazna, 12. 
Mohammed, king of Gazna, depofed and 
blinded by his brother, 11 ; reftored, but * 
refigns to his fon, 12. 
Mohammed, prince of Gaur, puts an end 
to the Gaznavide dynafty in India, 14; 
ravages various parts of Hindooftan, 15 ; 
his death, 16. 
Mohammed the Great, king of Charazm 
and India, founder of the Charazmian dy¬ 
nafty, 16; his firft battle with Gengis 
Khan, 17 ; beueged in Charazm, but 
efcapes, 18; his death, 19. 
Mohammed, fon of Balm, 22; killed, 23. 
Mohammed Shir, hit heroic exploit, 22. 
Mohammed III. king of Delhi, 273 endea. 
vours to make Deogur the capital of his 
empire, his death, 28. 
Mohammed IV. 28 ; his death, 29. 
Mohammed V. 33. 
Mohammed Adil, murders his nephew, and 
affumes his crown, 39. 
Mohaynmed fon of Aurungzebe, 47; by 
his father’s direction, imprifons his grand¬ 
father the emperor, 50; deferts, 51 ; 
fent to prjfon," 52. 
Mohammed Shah, gr*ndfen of Behadur, 
emperor, 63; iuccefsful againft the Syede, 
and 
