Rulers of India: Lord Clive - George Bruce Malleson (novels in english txt) 📗

171:
    Clive's instructions to the young Súbahdár at Murshidábád, 171, 172:
    he proceeded to Benares, 173:
    after an interview with Nawáb-Wazír, they proceeded to Allahábád to confer with Sháh Alím, 174:
    Clive's demands, 174:
    Nawáb-Wazír granted all except the one regarding factories, 174-5:
    the meeting at Chaprá, 175:
    league formed against Maráthá aggression, 175:
    question of the English frontier discussed, 175-6:
    Clive's views regarding the Súbah, the English to keep in the background, the power to be in the hands of the Súbahdár, 176-7:
    'Lord Clive's Fund,' 178:
    Clive's army administration, 179-89:
    'double batta,' 179, 181-2:
    conspiracy in the army, 184-9:
    Clive's mode of suppressing it, 189:
    Clive resigned in 1766, and returned to England in 1767, 191:
    his persecutions, 192-6, 201-9:
    visit to Paris, 196:
    on return to England found he was elected Member of Parliament, 197:
    affairs in India unsatisfactory, 198-201:
    attacks on Clive, 201-9:
    his acquittal, 209:
    went to Bath to try the waters, 209:
    went abroad, 210:
    returned to England, 210:
    his death, 210:
    comments on the life of Clive, 211, 212.

CLIVE'S Evidence before the Committee of the House of Commons, quoted, 96n., 135n.

CLIVE'S Report to the Court of Directors, quoted, 96n.

COCHIN, independent territory, 17.

COMMISSARY OF FORCES, Clive appointed, 48.

COOTE, Major Eyre, nominated Governor of Calcutta by Admiral Watson, 82:
    Clive objected to the nomination, 82:
    sent by Clive to occupy Katwá, 91:
    at Council of War, 93:
    sent with a detachment, after Plassey, 105.

COOTE'S Narrative, quoted, 96n., 103n.

COPE, Captain, mentioned in the account of the assault against Clive by Mr. Fordyce, 14:
    commander of Force sent to help ex-Rájá of Tanjore, 42:
    sent to Trichinopoli, 48.

CORNEILLE, Captain, at Council of War, 93.

CORNISH, Admiral, on the Arakan coast, 127.

COROMANDEL COAST, English Settlement at Armagon on the, 18.

COUNCIL OF WAR, 92-3:
    question submitted to, 93.

COURT OF DIRECTORS fêted Clive on his return to England, 75-6:
    appointed Clive Lieut.-Colonel, and named him Governor and Commander of Fort St. David, with succession to Governorship of Madras, 76:
    Clive's letter to, 98, 105-6:
    appointed ten men to manage affairs in Bengal, 119:
    constitution of, 138:
    disputed Clive's right to the jágír, 142:
    granted to Civil Servants right to private trade, 163:
    summary of the state of Bengal by, 166-7:
    batta, 179-81:
    curtailed their allowances, 180, 181:
    received Clive well in England, 196:
    sent out supervisors, 199, 200.

CUDDALORE, Mr. Fordyce assaulted Clive at, 14.

CUDMORE, Captain, at Council of War, 93.


DÁBHOL, Commodore Jones recalled from, 78.

DAMALCHERRI, pass in the Karnátik, 25, 45.

DÁUDPUR, 94:
    meeting between Mír Jafar and Clive at, 105:
    entire force united at, 105.

D'AUTEUIL, sent by Dupleix to take Law's place, 68:
    approached Utátur, 68:
    surprised Clive, 70:
    defeated by Clive, 73:
    retreated to Volkonda, 73:
    surrendered to Clive, 73.

DECCAN, territories belonging to, 17:
    territories independent of, 17.

Decisive Battles of India, by Colonel Malleson, 66n., 131n., 156n.

DELHI, sack of, 16, 30:
    Siráj-ud-daulá's overtures to Court of, 88:
    Muhammad Sháh, Emperor of, 30:
    King of, threatened rebellion against Mír Jafar, 121:
    invasion of, 151:
    defeated by Calliaud and Knox, 151:
    Mír Kásim died at, 158.

DEVIKOTA, English tried to possess the Fort of, 42:
    Clive sent to join Major Lawrence at, 50.

DHÁKÁ in rebellion against Mír Jafar, 115.

DIAMOND HARBOUR, Dutch vessels at, 126.

DISRAELI, Isaac son of, mentioned, 10:
    life of an attorney as distasteful to him as to Robert Clive, 10.

DOST ALÍ, appointed to succeed Saádat-ullá Khán as Nawáb of the Karnátik, 23:
    sent his son to capture Trichinopoli, where he was slain, 25:
    his son proclaimed Nawáb, 25.

DRAKE, Mr., Governor at Calcutta, 78:
    fled to the Húglí, 78.

DRAYTON, Market, see Market Drayton.

DULÁB RÁM, see Rájá Duláb Rám.

DUMAS, M. Benoit, Governor-General of French possessions in India, 21:
    at Pondicherry, 25.

DUPLEIX, M., succeeded Dumas as Governor-General of French possessions, 21, 32, 60, 194:
    received instructions from the Directors on account of the impending war with England, 32:
    ordered to join M. de la Bourdonnais, 33:
    urged to arrange with the Government of Madras that the two settlements should preserve neutrality, but not granted, 33:
    he appealed to Anwar-ud-dín, 33:
    hostility stopped in the Karnátik, 34:
    took Madras, 36:
    sole director of French interests, 36:
    sent a small force under Paradis to relieve Madras, 37:
    slaughter at St. Thomé, 37:
    tried to expel the English from all their settlements, 38:
    siege of Pondicherry, 39:
    directed the defence, 39:
    attempted to take Trichinopoli, 60:
    sent Law in command of troops, 60: unsuccessful, 61:
    urged Rájá Sáhib to proceed to reconquer Arcot, and, if possible, attack Madras, 62:
    attacked Punamallu, 62:
    marched to Kanchípuram and Vendalúr, 62:
    Rájá Sáhib's army met by Clive at Káveripák, 64:
    Clive surrounded by the French, 65:
    defeated by Clive, 66:
    sent d'Auteuil to replace Law, 68.

DUTCH, monopoly of trade with the Moluccas, 124:
    various conquests in the East, 124:
    Dutch-Indian Company, 124:
    settlement at Chinsurah, 124:
    negotiations with Mír Jafar, 125:
    Dutch fleet approaching Húglí, 126:
    Clive demanded explanation from them, 126:
    invasion of the, 126-30:
    complete defeat of, 131.


Early Records of British India, by Talboys Wheeler, quoted, 177 and n.

EAST INDIA COMPANY, Clive, writer in the service of, 9, 10, 11:
    Bihár saltpetre manufacture farmed by, 118:
    Directors of, 164:
    Diwán of the three Provinces, 172.

EATON, Dr., private school at Lostocke, to which Clive was sent till he was eleven, 10.

ELLIOT'S History of India, quoted, 31n., 44n., 100n., 176n.

ELLIS, civil officer, prepared to seize Patná, 155:
    defeated, 156.

Evidence before the Committee of the House of Commons, by Clive, quoted, 96n., 135n.

EYRE COOTE, Major, see COOTE.


FACTORIES, not to be established by the East India Company in Oudh, 174:
    Nawáb-Wazír's opinion of, 174-5.

FAIZÁBÁD, occupied by the English, 157.

FALTA, Major Kilpatrick with troops at, 80:
    Admiral Watson's squadron at, 80:
    Dutch attack off, 129.

FAMINE in the three Provinces, 199-201.

FISCHER, Captain, at Council of War, 93.

FLETCHER, Sir Robert, Commandant at Mungír, 185, 187:
    tried by court-martial and cashiered, 189:
    his pamphlet, 197.

FORDE, Colonel, sent by Clive to Vizagapatam, 122:
    united with Rájá's troops, 122:
    expelled French from northern Sirkárs, 122:
    took their fortress, 122:
    secured the influence for the English, 122:
    fought against the Dutch, 128:
    occupied Bárnagar, 129:
    marched to Shirirámpur, 129:
    Knox joined him, 130:
    defeated Dutch, 131:
    appointed Supervisor, 199.

FORDYCE, Rev. Mr., his assault against Clive, as reported by the Board at Fort St. David, 14:
    suspended, 14.

FORREST'S Records of the Madras Presidency (1890), 14, 40n., 41n., 50n., 52n.

FORT ST. DAVID, Board at, 14:
    English officials from Madras escaped to, 38:
    Clive helped to defend, 38:
    French tried to take, 39:
    Clive appointed Governor of, 76.

FORT ST. GEORGE, built at Madras, 19.

FORT WILLIAM, built by Job Charnock in the reign of King William III, 119.

FOX, Mr., Clive a supporter of, 76.

FRAIS, M. St., see ST. FRAIS.

FRENCH COLONY, at Pondicherry, 20:
    on the Malabar coast and at Chandranagar, in Bengal, 21.

FULLER, Mr., seconded amendment to the attack against Clive, 208.


GAUPP, Captain, at Council of War, 92.

GEORGE II, King, his opinion of Clive, 141:
    his death, 143.

GHERIÁ, fort at, 77:
    headquarters of Angria, pirate chief, 77:
    taken by Watson and Clive, 78:
    Alí Vardi Khán's battle at, 85.

GHULÁM HUSÉN, see CHÁNDA SÁHIB.

GINGENS, Captain, sent to Volkonda, 48:
    mismanaged affairs, 49:
    in command at Trichinopoli, 51.

GINGI, fortress of, 47:
    captured by the French, 47.

GOLKONDA, Nizám-ul-Múlk retired to, after taking Trichinopoli, 28.

GRAFTON, Duke of, at head of Ministry, 197:
    resigned, 197.

GRANT, Major, at Council of War, 92.

GRANT, Captain Alexander, at Council of War, 93.

GRENVILLE, George, 198:
    Clive a supporter of, 198:
    his death, 198.

GRIFFIN, Admiral, commanding squadron, 39.

GÚDALÚR, important town near Pondicherry, 38.

GUNDLAKAMMA, river in Madras, 17.


HAIDAR ALÍ, invaded Madras, 198, 201.

HAIDARÁBÁD, overtures between Siráj-ud-daulá and Bussy at, 87.

HASTINGS, Warren, mentioned, 194:
    first Governor-General of India, 201.

HEBER, Bishop, quoted, 37n.

HIGH-ROAD from Húglí to Patná made by Mughal Government, 90.

History of England, by Lord Stanhope, 202n.

History of Indostan, by Orme, quoted, 20n.

History of India, by Orme, quoted, 95n., 109n.

History of India, by Elliot, quoted, 31n., 44n., 100n., 176n.

History of the Bengal Army, by Broome, quoted, 90n., 95n., 110n.

History of the French in India, by Colonel Malleson, 36n.

HOLLAND, 124.

HOLWELL, Mr., in charge during Clive's absence, 136-7.

HOPE HALL, the residence of Mr. Bayley, where Clive was brought up, 9.

HÚGLÍ, river, fugitives in ships on the, 78:
    Major Kilpatrick sent with troops to, 79:
    Watson and Clive sent to, 80.

HÚGLÍ, town, stormed by Clive, 83:
    revenue of, granted money to Clive,