The Indian Empire: Its People, History, and Products |
Contents
Physical Aspects | 1 |
Aurangzebs Provinces and Revenues | 10 |
The Rivers as Highways and as Destroyers 2932 | 29 |
Third Region of India the Southern Tableland 344I | 35 |
British Burma its Geography and Products 41 | 41 |
Underpeopled Provinces the immobile Indian Peasant | 47 |
The NonAryan Races | 53 |
The Kandhs Tribal Government Wars and Blood Revenge 60 | 60 |
75131 | 431 |
State System of Education in India | 478 |
The IndoEuropean Stock | 488 |
Model Farms the Problem of improved Husbandry 515517 | 515 |
The Forest Department 522 524528 | 522 |
Irrigation its Function in India 528529 | 528 |
In Madras Mysore Central Provinces 535537 | 535 |
History of previous Famines 1769 to 1876 541 | 541 |
Seleukos and Chandra Gupta | 68 |
Crushed Tribes Gipsy Clans Predatory Tribes | 72 |
The Aryans in Ancient India | 75 |
Education | 96 |
The Hindu Drama Kálidása 125127 | 101 |
Early English Efforts the Calcutta Madrasa and other | 109 |
The Hindu Novel Beast Stories 127 | 127 |
Buddha the Spiritual Development of the Heroic Aryan Man 133 | 133 |
Political Life of Buddha his Opponents Devadatta 139 | 139 |
The Work of Kanishka | 147 |
Buddhas Personality denied | 153 |
The Greeks in India | 163 |
The India of Megasthenes | 169 |
IndoScythic Settlements Sen Gupta and Valabhi Dynasties 181 | 181 |
CHAPTER VIII | 191 |
Shrines common to Different Faiths | 203 |
Kumárila Bhatta Sankara Achárya | 209 |
Siva and Vishnu compared | 215 |
KrishnaWorship the Chief Vishnuite Sects 222 | 222 |
CHAPTER IX | 229 |
Early Indian Christians 190 A D 234 | 235 |
The Seven Modern Vernaculars | 238 |
Native Rulers of Bengal 17071756 the Black Hole | 239 |
First Portuguese Missionaries 1500 A D the Syrian Rite 243245 | 243 |
Parochial Organization of Portuguese India | 247 |
Mission Schools | 262 |
CHAPTER XI | 290 |
Akbars Organization of the Empire Military and Judicial | 296 |
Jahángírs Personal Character his Justice and Religion | 302 |
Aurangzebs twenty years Maráthá War his Despair | 308 |
Jesuit Colleges and Rural Settlements | 311 |
CHAPTER XII | 317 |
CHAPTER XIII | 325 |
EARLY EUROPEAN SETTLEMENTS 1498 TO 18TH CENTURY A D | 356 |
Lord Hardinge 18441848 the First Sikh War 410 | 410 |
Lord Dalhousies Work Extensions of Territory | 417 |
Queens Proclamation of November 1st 1858 423 | 423 |
Education Commission Abolition of Import Duties | 429 |
Assisted and Native State Railways 548 | 548 |
COMMERCE AND TRADE | 555 |
Growth of Trade Quinquennial Table of Foreign Trade 561 | 561 |
Exports Raw Cotton Jute Rice Wheat 569572 | 569 |
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Export of Cotton and Jute Manufactures 575 | 575 |
Effects of the Suez Canal on Indian Trade | 581 |
The Himalayan Trade Routes Nepál Tibet 587588 | 587 |
Religious Fairs Village Markets | 593 |
CHAPTER XX | 598 |
Carpets and Rugs Processes of Manufacture 604 | 604 |
European Industries Steam Cotton Mills 610612 | 610 |
Its Early Campingground in Central Asia | 612 |
Brewing Papermaking Leather etc 616 | 616 |
The Four Great Coal Fields Future of Indian Coal | 622 |
Saltpetre Manufacture and Export of 623 | 623 |
CHAPTER XXII | 631 |
The Ráníganj Coal Seams | 637 |
Gangetic Plain Eastern Bengal Assam 643 | 643 |
Rainfall Returns 649 | 649 |
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Reptiles Loss of Life from Snakebite the Cobra | 660 |
Deathrate in India Average Duration of Life 666 | 666 |
PAGE | 675 |
Health of the Native Army Causes of Mortality 682684 | 682 |
Area Towns and Villages Houses Population | 689 |
Population of British India classified according | 698 |
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aboriginal acres Afghán Afghánistán Akbar ancient army Aryan Assam Aurangzeb Behar Bombay Brahmans British India Buddha Buddhist Burma Calcutta Canal capital caste Catholic cent Central Provinces century A.D. chief Christian Church coast Company cultivation cwts Deccan Delhi dialects Districts Dravidian dynasty East Emperor English European exports faith famine Firishta forest Ganges Gangetic Gazetteer of India Government Greek Himalayas Hindu Hinduism Imperial Gazetteer Indus irrigation Jahán Jains Kábul Kandh Khán King kingdom land language legend Lord Lower Bengal Madras Malabar Maráthás Megasthenes ment miles millions sterling missionaries modern Mughal Empire Muhammadan Musalmán native non-Aryan North-Western Provinces Northern Orissa Oudh Persian Peshwá population Portuguese Prákrits princes Punjab races Rájá Rájputs religion religious revenue river rule Sakya Sanskrit Santáls Scythian Scythic sect settlements Shah Sikh Siva Southern India territory Thomas tion trade tribes valley Veda Vedic vernaculars Vishnu Vishnuite Western worship