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Droese, Ernest , Introduction to the MaltoLanguage, quoted, 385 (footnote 1).
Droughts.— See Famines.
Drugs and medicines, 66.
Dual system of administration in Bengal (1767-72), 456.
Duarte Nunez, first Portuguese bishop inIndia (1514-17 a.d.), 295, 296.
Dubois, Abbe, eighteenth century mis-sionary, 306.
Duff, Rev. Alexander, first Presbyterianmissionary to India , 316.
Dufferin, Marquess of, Viceroy (1884-88),501-503; the Rawal Pindi darbar, 501;Burmese affairs, 501, 502; annexationof Upper Burma, the Penjdeh incidentand its results, 502 ; celebration of theQueen’s Jubilee, 503.
Duka, Dr. Theodore, Life and Works ofAlexander Csoma de Kords, quoted,198 (footnote).
Dumas, Benoit, Governor of French India (1735-39), his interposition inIndian politics, 443, 444.
Duncker, Professor Max, Ancient Historyof India, quoted, 122 (footnote); 125(footnotes) ; 158 (footnote); 210 (foot-note).
Dupleix , French administrator, his ambi-tion of founding a French Empire inIndia , and his struggles in the Karnatik with Clive, 444-445.
Durani rule in Afghanistan (1747-1826),477-
Durga , one of the forms of the wife ofSiva, 261, 262.
Dutch , The, in India (1602-1824 A.D.),424-426; Dutch East India Com panies , 425 ; supremacy of the, in theEastern Seas, brilliant progress, anddecline, 425, 426; Dutch relics in India ,426 ; English ‘ Treaty of Defence ’with the Dutch (1619), 430; massacreof Amboyna, and expulsion of theEnglish from the Eastern Archipelago(1624), 431 ; Dutch conquests in India ,435 1 Dutch defeated by Clive atChinsurah, 453 ; Dutch monopoly ofEastern trade (1600), 664.
Dyes, export of, 678, 679.
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Early Greek historians of India , 210,211 .
Larly History of Tibet and Khoten, inMr. Rockhill’s Life of the Buddha,from the Tibetan classics, 223, 224^ (footnotes).
Early Muhammadan rulers (711-1526A-D.), chap. x. pp. 321-343.Early Arab expeditions to Bombay
(636-711 A.D.), 321 ; Muhammadansettlement in Sind (711 a.d.), 321 ;expulsion of the Muhammadans fromSind (828 A.D. ), 321; India on theeve of the Muhammadan conquest(1000 A.D.), 321, 322; the Hindu kingdoms and Hindu power of resist-ance, 322 ; slow progress of Muham-madan conquest, 322, 323 ; Muhamma-dan conquest only partial and tempo-rary, 323; recapture of India fromthe Muhammadans by the Hindus(1707-61 a.d.), 323; chronology ofMuhammadan conquerors and dynasties of India (1001-1857 A.D.), 324 ;first Tiirkf invasions, Subuktigin (977-997 a.d.), 325; the seventeeninvasions of Mahmud of Ghazni (1001-24 a.d.), 326-327; the Somnath expedition, 327 ; Mahmud ’s conquestof the Punjab , 327, 328; the Ghordynasty (1152-1206 a.d.), 328-331;Muhammad of Ghor’s invasions (1191-1206 A.D.), 329; his conquest ofBengal (1203 A.D. ), 330, 331 ; Muham mad ’s work in India and subjugationof Northern India, 331 ; Kutab-ud-din (1206-10 A.D.), 331 ; the Slavedynasty, 331-333; Altamsh (1211-36a.d.), 332 ; the Empress Raziya(i236-39 A. d. ), 332; Mughal irruptions andRajput revolts (1244-88), 332, 333 ;Balban (1265-87 a.d.), his cruelties,333 ; his royal pensioners, 333 ; endof the Slave kings, 333 ; the house ofKhilji (1290-1320 a.d.), 334-336 ; Ala-ud-dln’s raids into Southern India(1294), 334; conquest of NorthernIndia (1295-1303), 334; conquest ofSouthern India (1303 -15), 335 ;
Muhammadan power and populationin India (1306), 335 ; Mughal merce-naries and Hindu revolts, 335-336;Khusrii, the renegade Hindu emperor(1316-20 A.D.), 336; the house ofTughlak (1320-1414 A.D.), 336-339;Muhammad Tughlak (1324-51 A.D.),his expeditions, cruelties, forced cur-rency, 336, 337 ; revolts, 337 ; Mu hammad Tughlak ’s revenue exactions,338; Firuz Shah Tughlak (1351-88 A.D.) ; his canals, 338; Timur ’sinvasion (1398 A.D.), 338-339 ; ruin ofthe Tughlak dynasty, 339 ; the Say-yid, Lodi, andBahmani dynasties (1450-1526 A.D. ), 339-341 ; MuhammadanStates of the Deccan, 341 ; the Hindu kingdom of Vijayanagar, 341 ; in-dependent Nayaks and Palegars ofSouthern India, 342; independentMuhammadan kingdoms of Bengal ,Gujarat , and Jaunpur , 342; weaknessof the early Delhi Sultans, 342, 343.