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notes 370-371 ; the six puppet kings,371, 372; independence of the
Deccan and Oudh, 372 ; the Marathachanth , 372 ; invasions of Nadir Shah the Persian , and Ahmad Shah theAfghan , 372, 373 ; misery of the Pro-vinces, 373; third battle of Panipat,373 ; fall of the Empire, 373, 374.
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ,quoted, 280 (footnote 1); 290 (foot-note 2).
Decline of the Peshwas (1772-1818), 380.
Decorative art in India, 154-156.
Deer, Varieties of, 760.
Delhi , Timur ’s great massacre at, 338;sacked by Nadir Shah (1739), 372 ; byAhmad Shah Duranf, 373 ; the Mutinyat, 491; siege and storm of (1857),49 2 > 493-
Del Mar’s History of Money in AnciejitCountries , quoted, 210 (footnote 2).
Delta of Bengal , 55-64 ; deltaic distribu-taries, 55, 56; combined delta of theGanges , Brahmaputra , and Meghna,56, 57 ; deltaic swamps, 57? land-mak-ing, 57, 58; size of the Bengal delta, 58;deltaic depressions, 58, 59; subter-ranean structure of the Bengal deltaat Calcutta , 58, 59 (footnote); alluvialdeposits of the Ganges and Brahma putra , 59-61 ; amount of silt depositedat Ghazipur and in the delta, 60, 61 ;age of the Bengal delta, 61.
Deltaic channel of the Ganges , Section of,
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Denison, Sir William, started the Saida-pet model farm, 614.
Density of the Indian population, 80-82 ;overcrowded and under-peopled Pro-vinces, 81 ; population entirely rural,81 ; immobility of the rural popula-tion, 82 ; relation of labour to land, 83,84; unequal pressure of the popula-tion on the land, 84, 85 ; increase ofpopulation, 1872-91, 85-88.
Deodars in the Himalayas , 40.
Deserted river-marts and capitals, 62, 63.
Devadatta, the Buddhist schismatic,184, 185.
Devala, quoted on Indian laws, 160.
Dhangars, a semi-Hinduized tribe ofBengal and Chutia Nagpur, theirnumbers in 1872, ill (footnote i).
Dhulip Singh recognised as Raja, 482 ;agreement with, 483 (footnote 2).
Diamonds, 73 ; 731.
Diamper, Synod of (1599), 292.
Dictionary of Hindu Mythology , byProfessor Dowson , quoted, 227 (foot-note 5); 232 (footnote 1).
Dig, Battle of, and defeat of Holkar , 381.
Diminution of population in Madras andMysore after the famine, 85.
Dina Bandu Mitra, dramatic poet andauthor of the Nil Darpan, 413, 414.
Dina Krishna Das, Uriya poet of the16th century, 402.
Dion Chrysostomos alludes to theMahabharata , 162.
Distillation of country spirits, 538.
Distribution of Indian trade with foreigncountries, 668.
District officers, Duties of, 513.
Districts, Number of, in India, theirvarying size and population, 515, 516.
Diu, Almeida’s victory off (1509), 419;defence of, by the Portuguese (1538),421 ; battle of (1545), 422.
Diwanf, or financial administration ofBengal , granted to the East India Company (1765), 455.
Dixon, Col., quoted, on the Mhairs,113, 114.
Dnyanoba, Marathi poet of the 13thcentury, 404.
4 Doctrine of Lapse,’ Lord Dalhousie’s,485.
Doctrines of Buddha , 186 ; moral codeand missionary aspects of Buddhism ,
1 87-
Dodabetta, peak in Southern India, 69.
Dog, Different varieties of, 757*
Dongargaon, mart in the Central Pro-vinces, 698, 699.
Dormer , Gen. Sir James, proposal toenlist Nairs, 115*
Dost Muhammad , Amir of Afghanistan ,477 ; made prisoner, 478 ; recovers thethrone, 479 ; assisted the Sikhs, 483.
Dowson , Professor, Dictionary of HinduMythology , quoted, 227 (footnote 5);232 (footnote 1).
Drake , Sir Francis, voyage round theworld (1577)5 427-
Drama, The Indian, 168, 169 ; 413? 4 J 4-
Draupadi, the wife of the five Pandavabrethren in the epic of the Maha bharata , 244.
Dravidians, The, aboriginal races ofSouthern India, their languages, 103-108; Dravidians compared with theKols, 106-108; place of Dravidianlanguages in philology, 385, 386; theDravidians in Sanskrit literature, 386 ,pre-Aryan Dravidian civilisation, 386;Dravidian art, 387; Brahmanical in-fluence on the Dravidians, 387, 388;development of Dravidian speech intovernacular literatures, 388 ; Tamil , theoldest and the most influential ver-nacular of Southern India, 388; Jaincycle of Tamil literature, earliestTamil poets, 389; Tamil hymnology,390; modem Tamil writers, Beschi,the Italian Jesuit and Tamil scholar,390-391 ; recent statistics of Tamil literature, 392.