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Character of the non-Aryan tribes, theirfidelity as soldiers, 113.
Charaka , traditional founder of Hindu medicine, 149 ; modern edition of hisworks, 152 (footnote 1).
Charak-Puja , or Hook-Swinging Festi-val, 263.
Charities of Indian trade guilds, 248.
Charnock, Job, founds Calcutta (1686),447-
Chauth, or ( quarter-revenues ’ exactedby the Marathas in the Deccan and inBengal , 378, 379.
Cheetah or hunting leopard, 756.
Chera, ancient Hindu dynasty in Southern India , 339.
Cherra-Punji , rainfall at, 39.
Child, Sir John, ‘Captain-General andAdmiral of India ’(i684), also Governor-General, 434.
Child-worship of Krishna, 272.
Childers, Mr., Dictionary of the Pali Language , quoted, 176, 179, 181,
183, 187 (footnotes).
Chilianwala, Battle of (1849), 483.
China , marches with Burma , 35 ;Buddhism established in, 195; Mu hammad Tughlak sent expeditionsagainst, 336; India ’s trade with, 682 ;689.
Chinese outposts in the Himalayas , 38.
Chinsurah, defeat of the Dutch at, byClive, 426 ; headquarters of the DutchSettlement in Bengal , 448.
Chips from a German Workshop, byProfessor Max Muller , quoted, 124(footnote 1); 171 (footnote 1); 187(footnote 2); 196 (footnote 2).
Chitor , taken by Ala-ud-dln Khilji (1303),334) 335-
Chitral , British position strengthened at,505-
Chitu, Pindari leader, 472.
Chola, ancient Hindu dynasty in South ern India , 339.
Christianity , Influence of Buddhism on,195-198. Christianity in India (iooto1881 a.D.), chap. ix. pp. 279-320. Chris tianity coeval with Buddhism in India for900 years, 279 ; origin of Christianity inIndia , 279; Syrian Christians in India ,280 ; the three legends of St. Thomas ,281-283; wide meaning of India inthe writings of the Christian Fathers,283, 284; first glimpse of IndianChristians (190 a.d. ), 284; ancientRoman trade with India , 284; Jew settlements in ancient Malabar, 284,285 ; Indian Christians (190-547 a.d.),as described byPantcenus, Hippolytus,and Cosmas Indicopleustes , 285, 286;Nestorian Church in Asia , 286;
Nestorianism and Buddhism side byside for 1000 years, 286 ; wide diffu-sion of the Nestorian Church, 287 ;the ‘ Thomas Christians ’ of Persia andof India , 287; localization of thelegend of St. Thomas , 288-289;embassy of Alfred the Great to India(833 A. D.), 289-290; troubles of theancient Indian Church, 290-291 ; theNestorian St. Thomas Christians ofMalabar, a powerful and respectedmilitary caste, 291 ; Portuguese effortsat their conversion to Rome , 291-292; Synod of Diamper (1599 a.d.),292; Malabar Christians freed fromPortuguese oppression by the Dutch ,292-293 ; Jacobite and Syrian Chris-tians in Malabar, 293-294 ; extinctionof Nestorianism in Malabar, 294, 295 ;early Portuguese missionaries identi-fied with Portuguese aggressions, 295 ;Xavier and the Jesuits (1542 a.d.),296; work done by the Madras Jesuits , 296, 297 ; early Jesuit stationsin India , 297; conquest and con-version the basis of Portuguese Indian rule, 297, 298; parochial organiza-tion of Portuguese India, 298 ; Jesuit station of Thana (1550 a.d.), itsChristian craftsmen and cultivators,
298, 299; Jesuit rural organization,299 ; Cochin , a Jesuit collegiate city ,
299, 300; Jesuit itineraries and con-versions, 301, 302 ; the Madura
Mission in the 17th and 18th centuries,302 ; caste questions among MalabarChristians, 302,303 ; Christian martyr-doms, 303, 304 ; establishment of theInquisition at Goa , 304, 305; autosda fe, 305 ; persecutions and aggres-sions by Portuguese , 305 ; Goa Inquisi-tion abolished (1812), 305 ; suppressionof the Jesuits (1759), 306; their re-establishment (1814), 306; organiza-tion of Roman Catholic missions inIndia , 306; separate jurisdiction ofthe Archbishop of Goa , 307 ; Roman Catholic hierarchy in India , 308;distribution of Roman Catholics , 309 ;the Verapoli vicariate in Travancore ,309; Syrian and Roman CatholicChristians, 309 ; statistics of Roman Catholic population of India , 31; 311;Roman Catholic population in FrenchIndia , 312; Roman Catholic progress,310, 312; Catholic missionary financein 1891, 313; Catholic colleges andschools, 312 ; first Protestant Missionsin India (1705), 313; vernacular trans-lation of the Bible (1725 a.d.), 313;Protestant missionaries in Tanjore , Cal cutta , and Serampur , 314; oppositionof the East India Company to missions,