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INDEX.
Famines, 642-647 ; causes of scarcityand of real famine, 642; means ofhusbanding the water-supply, 642;irrigation area, 643; summary ofIndian famines, 643-645; the greatfamine of 1876-78, its causes, 645,646; famine expenditure, 645 ; mor-tality from disease and starvation, 646,647 ; famine a weak check on popula-tion, 646; famine of 1876-78 summar-ized, 647.
Fatehpur Sikri , Babar’s victory at(IS27), 344-
Faulmann, Buck der Schrift , quoted,145 (footnote).
Fauna of India, 42, 754-765.— See alsoZoology .
Female education, 568, 569.
Ferse Nature of India. — See Zoology and Botany.
Ferdousi , Persian poet and historian inthe days of Mahmud of Ghazni , 328.
Fergusson, Dr. James, Paper in thejournal of the Royal Asiatic Society forApril 1880, quoted, 192 (footnote) ;Tree and Serpent Worship, quoted,233 (footnote); 254 (footnote); History of Architecture , 362 (footnotes).
Fetish-worship in Hinduism , 255.
Feudatory India, the thirteen groups ofNative States, 76 ; population, 79.
Filatures.— See Silk.
Final Struggles of the French in India ,by Colonel Malleson , 445 (footnote).
Finances and taxation of India , obscuri-ties and changes in system of account,
542- 550 ; taxation of British India,
543- 546; taxation under the Mughals and under the British , 547, 548 ; taxa-tion in Native States, 549; incidenceof taxation in British India , 549.
Firishta ’s Rise of the MuhammadanPower in India , Colonel Briggs’ trans-lation, quoted, 324 (footnote); 340
(footnote) ; 346 (footnotes).
Firozshah , Battle of (1845), 481*
First Buddhist Council (543 b.c.), 188.
Firuz Tughlak, the third king of theTughlak dynasty (1351-88 A.D.), hisgreat canals and public works, 338.
Fishes, 763, 764.
Fitch, Newberry, and Leedes, the firstEnglish traders in India (1583 A.D.),
, 427-
Iriint weapons of ancient India , 91.
Flora of India, 765-766.
Fonseca, Goa , quoted, 304 (footnote 6);305 (footnote 2).
Food-grains, Export of, 676-677.
Forde, Colonel , won battle of Condoreand stormed Masulipatam (1760), 446 ;recaptured Masulipatam from theFrench , 453.
Foreign trade of India , its gradualgrowth, 664, 665 ; returns of foreigntrade (1840-84), 665-667; staples ofimport and export sea-borne trade(1882-83), 668-687.
Forest Department, Growth of, and itsadministration, 622-628 ; Forest Con-servancy statistics, 624-627 ; ‘ open 5and ‘reserved’ forests, 625.
Forests of the Himalayas , 40; in Southernand South-Western India, 71, 7 2 1in Sind and Punjab , 623 ; NorthWestern Provinces, 624; Sundarbans,624; Assam and Burma , 624.— Seealso Forest Department, tit supra.
Forrest, G. W., Selections from Letters,Despatches , etc., 1772-85, quoted, 460(footnote 2).
Fortified weaving settlements of the East India Company , 701.
Fourth Buddhist Council (40 A.D.),192.
Fo-wei-kian-king, Chinese translationfrom the Sanskrit of the ‘ Dying Instruc-tions of Buddha,’ 185 and footnote.
Fox, The Indian, 757.
France , India ’s foreign trade with, 683,685.
Francis, Sir Philip, his opposition toWarren Hastings , 456, 457 5 advocateda Permanent Settlement, 463.
Frederick the Great, King of Prussia , hisEmbden Companies, 438-440.
French East India Companies , and thepresent French possessions in India ,435? 43^ i French and English in theKarnatik, the first French war (1746-48),444 ; capture of Madras by the French (1746), and its restoration to the Eng lish (1748), 445 ; French influence inIndia (1798-1800), and intrigues withTipu Sultan and the Nizam of Haidar-abad, 464, 465.
French Settlements in India , populationof (1891), 79; Roman Catholic popu-lation of, 312.
Frobisher’s,Davis’, Hudson’s, and Baffin’sattempts to reach India by way of theNorth-west passage, 426.
Frontier trade of India , 690-693.
Fruits, Varieties of, 584.
Fryer, Dr., Travels, quoted, 514.
Funeral mounds and ceremonies of theSakyas and Buddhists in ancient India ,225.
G
Gaekwar, family name of the chief ofthe Maratha State of Baroda; rise ofthe family; deposition of the lateGaekwar, 380, 381 ; 497.