602 INDEX Austria and France, alliance of, 136 Ayub Khan unsuccessfully attempts to become Amir of Afghanistan, 443 B Babar, Emperor, founds the Moghul Empire, 46, 161 Memoirs of, 160-161 Victory of, at Panipat, 161 Balaji Bala Rao, prime minister of the Maratha king, 174 Baluchistan made a British protectorate, 436, 480 Bantam blockaded by the Dutch, 30 In the possession of the English, 35 Key to Dutch control of pepper trade, 65 Barker, Sir Robert, 241 Barlow, Sir George, succeeds Cornwallis as Governor-General, 345 Reactionary policy of, 346 Barrier-treaty of August, 1765, 201-202 Bassein occupied by the English, 245 Treaty of, 321, 323, 329 Batavia, headquarters of the Dutch in the East, 65 Baxar, defeat of the Oudh vizir at, 188 Benares, insurrection of, 254-255 Acquired by the English, 266 Bengal, value of the imports from, dur- ing the twenty years after the Resto- ration, 41 English masters of, hi 1758, 141, 176 Native government of, in the begin- ning of the eighteenth century, 163-164 Harbours of, 177 Commerce and position of, 178-180 Disputes between the English Com- pany and the Nawab of, 182-183, 184 Period of misrule in, 183 Revenue in, 186, 221 Famine in, 223 Naval engagements in the Bay of, 257 Bentinck, Lord William, Governor- General of India, 392 Makes English the official language of India, 392-394 Abolishes suttee, 394-395 Foreign policy of, 395 Bernier, Francois, quotations from, re- garding the military and official classes in India, 47-48 Writes of the strength of India, 162 Bhartpur, unsuccessful siege of, 330 Taken by assault, 391 Bhotan, war with, 433 Bijapur destroyed by Aurangzib, 44, 54 Bombay, ceded to England in 1661, 31 The headquarters of the English Company in 1685, 41 Boughton, a surgeon in the East India Company, made physician to the Emperor of Delhi, 23 Breda, treaty of, adjusting commercial disputes in Asia, 38 Buonaparte, scheme of Asiatic conquest of, 300-301 Letter of, to Tippu, 304 Burgoyne, surrender of, at Saratoga, 247 Burke defends the East India Company, 228 Attacks the East India Company, 275-276, 277-278 Burma, the kingdom of, 386 First war with, 389 Burma, Upper, annexed by the British, 447-448 Results of the annexation of, 486-487 Bussy at Haidarabad, 120 Character of, 124 Ordered to Pondicherri, 138-139 Returns to India with reinforcements in 1783, 257 Cachar, Burmese inroads into, 389 Calcutta, the chief agency of the English in Bengal hi 1687, 41 English driven from, in 1756, 140 Transfer of the headquarters of the English Company to, 176 Reorganization of government in, and problems relating thereto, 231-234 Canning, Lord, Governor-General of India, 423 Cape of Good Hope, rounding of, largely affects commerce, 4-5 Cavagnari, Sir Louis, British envoy at Kabul, assassination of, 441 Ceylon seized by the Dutch, 30 Held by the Dutch at the beginning of the eighteenth century, 71 Taken from the Dutch, 302 Chanda Sahib murdered by the Mara- thas, 120 Channing, Lord, rule of, for determining succession hi the native states, 428- 429 Charles II, restoration of, 30 Child, Sir John, sent to India, 57-58 Death of, in 1690, 59 Chilianwala, battle of, 418 China, as a rival of England, 486
