INDEX.

817

Criminale, Antonio, martyred (1549),296.

Crocodiles, 763.

Cromer, Lord, see Baring, Sir E.

Cromwell, Oliver, gave a Charter to anEast India Company {1654), 428; de-clared war against the Dutch, 433.

Crops of the Himalayas , 40; of the RiverPlains and Gangetic Delta , 64, 65; ofSouthern India , 73; of Burma , 75.—See also chap, xvii., Agriculture andProducts, 577-609.

Crop statistics for India , Uncertainty of,

598.

Cross’ Act, Lord, for enlargement of theLegislative Councils, 504, 509.

Crushed tribes, 112.

Csoma de Kords , Life and Works of byDr. Theodore Duka , quoted, 198 (foot-note 2).

Cultivators, Rights of, reserved by thePermanent Settlement of Bengal, 521,522; oppression of, by rack-rentingland-lords, 522, 523; the Land Act of 1859,523 ; Rent Commission of 1879, andits proposed reforms in the direction offixity of occupation and compensationfor disturbance, 523, 524.

Cunha, Nuno da, Governor of PortugueseIndia (1528-38), 421.

Cunningham, General Sir Alexander,quoted, 121; on the Huns in India ,230, 2 3i > 346 (footnote 1); 354 (foot-note) ; Corpus Inscriptionum Indi-carum , quoted, 144 (footnote 4); 189(footnote); 190 (footnote); 191 (foot-notes) ; 198 (footnote 3); 214 (footnotei); Ancient Geography of India, 200(footnote); 202 (footnote 1); 211 (foot-notes 1 and 3); 212 (footnote) ; 213(footnote 1); 214 (footnote 3); 233(footnote 2) ; Mahabodhi , quoted, 178(footnote 1); Reports of the Archeo­ logical Survey of India , 233 (footnote 4).

Cunningham, Sir H. S., Lord Canning ,(‘ Rulers of India’ series), quoted, 490(footnote 1).

Currency Question, The, 506.

Cust, Mr. R. N., Linguistic and OrientalEssays , quoted, 145 (footnote); 143(footnote); summary of Asoka’s Edicts,I 9 I ) 192.

Customs inland lines abolished by Lord Mayo , 497; customs import dutiesabolished by Lord Ripon, 501.

Customs revenue, 552.

Cutch, Silver jewellery of, 708.

Cutlery manufactures, 709.

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Dacca muslins, a decaying manufacture,704.

Dadu, religious reformer and sacred poetof Rajputana (16th century), 402.

Dae, Mr. Arcy, The Litei'ature of Bengal,quoted, 407 (and footnote); 408 (andfootnote); 411 (footnote); 412 (foot-note).

Dalhousie, Earl of, Governor-General ofIndia (1848-56), 482-487; his ad-ministrative reforms, 482; inaugura-tion of the Indian railway system andthe Public Works Department, 482;second Sikh war and annexation of thePunjab , 483, 484; second Burmese war and annexation of Pegu, 484,Lord Dalhousie’s policy towardsNative States, 484-486; Lord Dal-housie’s annexation of Oudh, and jus-tification of the measure, 486, 487;Lord Dalhousie’s scheme of trunkmilitary railways, 648.

Daman, taken by the Portuguese , 422.

Damascened steel work, 709.

Damodar, the sacred river of the Santals,96.

Damodar coal tract, Geology of, 738-740.

Dandis, a sect of Sivaite religious as-cetics and mendicants, 264.

Danish East India Companies (1612 and1670 A.D.), and their settlements, 436.

Danish missionaries, 314.

Danvers, Frederick, his Report on theIndo-Portuguese records, 424,

Dara, brother of Aurangzeb , defeatedand put to death, 364.

Basyus, the Aryan name for the non-Ayrans, or aborigines, 91.

Daulatabad, Muhammad Tughlak ’sattempts to remove his capital to,336, 337-

Davids, Mr. Rhys, Buddhism , quoted,181 (footnote); Buddhist Birth Stories,181 (footnote).

Day, Francis, founded Madras (1639),432.

Death-rate, 769-771.

Debt of India and its growth, 555-556.

Deccan, The, or Southern India , 67 ;its mountain ranges and elevated table-land, 67, 68 ; mountain passes, 68, 69;rivers, 69, 70; forests, 71, 72; scenery,72, 73; crops, 73; minerals, 73;Maratha power in the Deccan, 375-

378.

Deccan Agriculturists’ Relief Acts, arural insolvency law, 529-532.

Decennial Settlement, The (1789-1791),463-

Decline and fall of the Mughal Empire (1707-1857 a.d.), 370-374; and foot-F