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Thomas Roe to the Emperor Jahangir,3595 43°; Shah Jahan ’s great architec-tural works at the Taj Mahal and ModMasjid, 362; deposition of Shah Jahan and imprisonment within Agra Fort(where he died), by his usurping son Aurangzeb , 363 ,* establishment ofEnglish factory at (1620 a.d.), 431.
Agra Canal, 61 ; 633.
Agricultural Relief Acts for SouthernIndia, 529-532.
Agricultural school at Saidapet in Madras ,614.
Agricultural stock in India , 618-621 ;famous breeds of cattle and horses,618, 619.
Agriculture, Department of, created byLord Mayo , 497; re-established byLord Ripon, 500; 616.
Agriculture and products, chap. xvii.pp. 575-647. Agriculture in India ,the occupation of almost the entirepopulation, 575, 576; various systemsof agriculture, 576; rotation of crops,petite culture, 576, 577 ; statistics ofrice cultivation in different Provinces,577-579; hill cultivation, 579; wheat,581 ; area under principal food-grains,580; millets and minor cereals, 582,583 ; pulses, 583 ; oil-seeds, 583 ;vegetables, fruits, and spices, 584, 585 ;palms and sugar-cane, 585; cotton,585-588; jute, 589, 590 ; indigo,
590-593; opium, 593, 594; tobacco,594, 595 ; uncertainty of Indian cropstatistics, 598 ; approximate area undercertain principal crops, 596, 597;
special crops, coffee, 598-600; tea,600-606 ; cinchona, 606-609 5 silk? 609-612; lac and lac-dye, 612, 613 ; modelfarms, their small success, 614, 615 ;the problem of improved husbandry,615; the impediments to better hus-bandry, namely, want of cattle, wantof manure, and want of water, 616-618; agricultural stock, 618-621 ;forest conservancy and growth of theIndian Forest Department, 622-626;nomadic cultivation, 627, 628; irriga-tion and its function in India duringfamine, 628, 629; irrigation areas inthe different Provinces, 629-643 ; irriga-tion statistics for British India, 639-642; famines and their causes, 642,643 ; summary of Indian famines, 643-645; the great famine in Southern India (1876-78), 645-647.
Agriculture in India , small holdings, 81 ;absence of large commercial towns, 81.
Ahams, tribe in Assam , formerly theruling race in that Province, now acrushed tribe, 112 ; present descendantsof, 236.
Ahi, the Vedic Demon of Drought, 122and footnote.
Ahmadabad , Hindu architecture at, 154;castes as trade guilds at, 247, 248,
Ahmadnagar , Muhammadan Kingdom ofSouthern India (1490-1636 a.d.), 341.
Ahmad Shah Durani (1747-61 a.d.), 372,373-
Aided Clergy Society, 320.
Ain-l-Akbari , or chronicles of Akbar ,translated by Professor H. Blochmann ,325 (footnote); 346 (footnote 1) ; 350(footnote); 351 (footnote).
Aitchison, Sir C. U., Lord Lawrence (‘Rulers of India’ series), quoted, 490(footnote 1).
Aix-la-Chapelle , Madras restored to theEnglish by the Treaty of (1748), 445.
Ajit Singh of Jodhpur , revolted againstthe Mughals , 372.
Ajmere , establishment of an English factory at (1614 A.D.), 430.
Akas, an aboriginal hill tribe in Assam ,95-
Akbar the Great , founder of the Mughal Empire (1556-1605 A.D.), 346-358;chief events of his reign, 347 (footnote);his work in India , 347, 348 ; concilia-tory policy towards the Hindus, 348,349; conquest of Rajput chiefs, and ex-tension and consolidation of the Mughal Empire , 348, 349 ; change of capitalfrom Delhi to Agra, 349 ; his religiousfaith, 350 ; army, judicial, and policereforms, 351 ; his revenue survey andland settlement of India , 352, 3531revenues of the Mughal Empire underAkbar , 352-358.
Akbar , son of Aurangzeb , 366; his re-bellion, 368.
Akbar Khan , son of Dost Muhammad ,murdered Macnaghten at Kabul (1841),478-
Akkhai Kumar Datta, Bengali prosewriter, 413.
Akyab , its advance under British rule,484-
Alabaster, Mr., The Wheel of the Law ,quoted, 181 (footnote).
Ala-ud-dfn, the second ldng of the Khiljfdynasty (1295-1315 A.D.), 334 5 hisinvasion and conquest of Southern India , 334, 335 ; massacre of Mughal settlers, 335 ; Hindu revolts, 335.
Ala-ud-din 11., most powerful of theBahmanl kings, 341.
Albuquerque , second Governor of Portu-guese India (1509-15 A. D.), 4 2 °5 hiscapture of Goa , and death there, 420 This policy towards the natives, 420.
Albuquerque , John de, first Bishop 0 Goa (1539-53 A.D.), 296.