INDEX. 809
Best, Captain, his victory at Swally(1615), 429.
Betwa Canal, a famine insurance work,
6,34*
Bhagfrathi, the name of the source andhead-waters of the Ganges , 48.
Bhakta-Mala, the Hindu Acta Sanc-torum , 258.
Bharat Chandra Rai, famous Bengali poet of the 18th century, 412.
Bhars, an aboriginal and formerly domi-nant race in Oudh, now a crushedtribe, 112; 235; present descendantsof, 235.
Bhartpur, repulse of Lord Lake before(1805), 469; capture of, by LordCombermere (1827), 474.
Bhaskara , great Indian astronomer , 147.
Bhils, aboriginal tribe of Khandesh andRajputana, formerly a predatory clan,now largely converted into peaceablecultivators and loyal soldiers, 113,114.
Bhonsla, family name of the MarathaChiefs of Nagpur , lapsed to the Britishfor want of heirs in 1853, 380.
Bhor - Ghat, mountain pass in theWestern Ghats , 69 ; 654.
Bhutan , war with (1864-65), 496; tradewith (1883), 692.
Bible , translated into Tamil and Hindu stani , 313 ; into other vernaculars,315*
Bidar , Muhammadan kingdom of Southern India (1492-1657 A.D.), 341.
Bidari work, damascening of silver onbronze, 710.
Bidyapati Thakur, court poet of Tirhutin the 14th century, 407.
Bigandet, Bishop, Life or Legend ofGaudama , quoted, 182 (footnote); 206(footnote 3).
Bihari Lai, Hindi poet of the 17thcentury, and composer of the Satsai,
403.
Bijapur , Muhammadan kingdom ofSouthern India (1489-1688 a. d. ), 341.
Biliapatam, East India Company ’s factorystarted at (1661 A.D.), 433.
Birch-bark manuscripts, 144.
Bird , Miss , Unbeaten Tracks in Japan ,quoted, 198 (footnote); 274 (foot-
note).
Birds of prey, 762.
Birdwood, Sir G., on Indian art, 155,156 ; Handbook to the British IndianSection of the Paris Exhibitionof 1878, quoted, 210 (footnote 2) ;Report on the Miscellaneous Old Re-cords in the India Office , quoted, 420(footnote 2); 423 (footnote); 431 (foot-note) ; 434 (footnote).
Bison, The Indian, 760, 761.
Black Hole , The tragedy of the, at Cal cutta (1756), 448.
Black-Skins or non-Aryans, described bythe Aryans, 91, 92.
Blochmann, Professor H., translation ofthe Ain-i-Akbari , 325 (footnote); 346(footnote 1) ; 351 (footnote).
Bluecoat boys sent out as clerks by theEast India Company , 514.
Boats, Bridges of, 655.
Bolan, mountain pass over the Brahuihills, between Sind and Afghanistan ,3 8 -
Bombay , Bishopric of, founded (1837),315 ; ceded to the East India Company (1661 A.D.), 433; made a Presidency(1684-87),' 434; the main centre ofIndian foreign trade, 662, 663.
Book-binding and illumination, 155.
Bore, The, or tidal wave in the Hiigliand Meghna, 63.
Boscawen, Admiral, his ineffectual siegeof Pondicherri (1748), 445.
Boughton, Gabriel, obtained privilegesfor the English in India (1645), 43 2 *
Braganza, Constantino de, Viceroy ofPortuguese India (1558-61), 422.
Brahma , the Creator , the first person inthe Hindu Triad, 140.
Brahma-gupta, early Indian astronomer,147-
Brahman founders of Hinduism , 257.
Brahmanas, sacred .Sanskrit writings ex-planatory of the sacrifices and duties ofthe priests, etc., 130-132.
Brahmanical castes, north and south ofthe Vindhyas , 242, 243, and footnote.
Brahmans, the priestly caste of ancientIndia , 128-140; origin of priestlyfamilies, 128; growth of the priesthood,129-130; the Brahman caste fullyformed, 131-132 ; struggle between thepriestly and warrior castes, and ultimatesupremacy of the Brahmans, 133-136;Viswamitra the Kshattriya, andVasishtha the Brahman, 133, 134; thefour stages of a Brahman’s life, 136 ;Brahman rule of life and its hereditaryresults on caste, 137, 138; Brahmantheology, the post-Vedicgods, 138, 139;the Hindu Triad, 140 ; the si xdarsanasor Brahman schools of philosophy, 141,142 ; Sanskrit grammar and speech,142 - 143 ; Sanskrit manuscripts anddictionaries, 143-146; Brahman astro-nomy, 146, 147 ; mathematics, 148 ;medicine, 149-152; war, 152; music,152-154; architecture and decorativeart, 154-156; painting, 155; law,156-161 ; secular literature, the epics,161-167 ; poetry and the drama, 168-