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165 ; the struggle between the Kaura-vas and Pandavas, 162, 163; thepolyandry of Draupadi, 164.
Maharajpur, Battle of (1843), 480.
Mahindo, son of Asoka , introducedBuddhism into Ceylon, 194.
Mahmud of Ghazni (1001-30 A.D.), 325-328 ; his seventeen invasions of India ,326 ; patriotic resistance of the Hindus ,326 ; sack of Somnath , 327 ; conquestof the Punjab , 327 ; Mahmud ’s justiceand thrift, 328.
Mahmud Tughlak, last king of the Tugh-lak dynasty (1398-1412 A.D.), invasionof Timur (Tamerlane ), 338, 339.
Mailapur (St. Thomas’ Mount), legend-ary martyrdom of St. Thomas the Apostle at, near Madras city, 281,
Makum coal-beds in Assam , 724.
Makunda Ram, famous poet of Bardwanin the 16th century, 409, 410; story ofKalketu the hunter, 410 ; the SrimantaSadagar, 410, 411.
Malabar Christians, legendary preachingof St. Thomas the Apostle on theMalabar and Coromandel coasts (68A.D.), 279 ; Thomas the Manichseanand Thomas the Armenian merchant,their rival claims as founders of Chris tianity in Southern India, 281, 282;troubles of the ancient Indian Church,290 ; the St. Thomas Nestorian Chris-tians of Malabar, a powerful and re-spected military caste, 291 ; Portuguese efforts at their conversion to Rome ,291; incorporation of the St. ThomasChristians into the Roman Catholic Church , and downfall of the NestorianChurch, 291-292 ; Synod of Diamper (1599 a.d.), 292; Malabar Christiansunder Roman Catholic prelates (1601-53a.d.), 292; Malabar Christians freedfrom Catholic supremacy by the Dutchconquest of Cochin (1663), 292 ; firstJacobite Bishop to Malabar (1665),293 ; Malabar Christians since 1665,theirdivisioninto Syrians and Jacobites,and present numbers, 293, 294 ; tenetsof the Jacobites of Malabar, 294;Nestorianism extinct in Malabar, 294,295 ; the Jesuit Malabar Mission inthe 17th and 18th centuries, 302 ; casteamong Malabar Christians, 302, 303 ;letters of the Jesuit missionaries ofMalabar, 303.
Malabar navigable back - waters or la-goons, 657.
Malcolm, Sir John, sent as envoy toPersia , 470; services in the last Marathawar, 472, 473.
Malik Ambar , minister of Ahmadnagar ,his resistance to Jahangir , 359.
Malik Kafur, S'ave general of Ala-ud-
din (1303-15 a.d.) ; his conquest ofSouthern India, 335.
Malleson , Colonel, Akbar ( ( Rulers ofIndia ’ series), 346 (footnote) ; Historyof the French in India , and FinalStruggles of the French in India , by,quoted, 445 (footnote) ; History of theIndian Mutiny , quoted,490 (footnote 1).
Malwa, Muhammadan kingdom of, 342 ;conquered by Akbar (1570-72), 349;ceded to the Marathas (1743), 378.
Manasarowar, sacred lake in the Hima-layas, 43, 45.
Manchester cotton imports, 669.
Mandalay occupied (1S85), 502.
‘ Man hunts ’ of Muhammad Tughlak ,
338.
Manipur , population in 1891, only esti-mated, 79 (footnote 2); troubles at(1891), 505.
Man Singh, Akbar’s Hindu general andGovernor of Bengal, 348.
Manu, the legendary founder of Sanskrit law, 156, 157.
Manufactures and Arts.— See Arts andManufactures.
Manure, Use of, 576 ; want of, a draw-back to improved husbandry, 616.
Maratha power, The (1634-1818 A.D.),chap. xii. pp. 375-382. British Indiawon, not from the Mughals , but fromthe Hindus , 375 ; rise of the Marathas,Shahji Bhonsia, 375 ; Sivaji, the con-solidator of the Maratha power, 375 5state of parties in the Deccan (1650),
376 ; the Marathas courted by the tworival Muhammadan powers, 376;Sivaji’s hill forts, army of cavalry,tactics, etc., 376 ; his murder of theBijapur general, Akbar Khan, 377 >coins money in his own name, 377 1visits Delhi (1666), 377; enthroneshimself as an independent prince atRaigarh (1674), 377 ; death {1680),
377 ; Aurangzeb ’s mistaken policy inthe Deccan, 377 ; Sambhaji and Sahu,successors of Sivaji, 377 ; the Satara and Kolhapur families, the last ofSivaji’s line, 378 ; rise and progress ofthe Peshwas, 378; second Peshwa(1721-40), conquers the Deccan, 378;third Peshwa (1740-61), conquests inthe Deccan, and raids from Bengal tothe Punjab , 378, 379 ; defeat of theMarathas by Ahmad Shah the Afghan(1761), 379 ; fourth Peshwa (1761-7 2 )? 379 > the five great Marathabranches, 379 ; fifth Peshwa (I 77 2 )>his assassination, 380; decline of thePeshwas (1772-78), 380 ; the northernMarathas, Sindhia and Holkar (1761-1803), 380; the Bhonslas of Berar