Rulers of India: Lord Clive by George Bruce Malleson (ebook offline reader .txt) 📖

85:
    bankers and merchants of, join Clive, 86:
    Mír Jafar's interview with Mr. Watts at, 92:
    Clive entered, 111:
    treasury of, granted money to Clive, 117:
    Clive at, 171.

MURTIZÁ ALÍ, Governor of Vellore, 27:
    poisoned his brother-in-law, 27:
    proclaimed himself Nawáb, 27:
    his flight, 27:
    present at the royal wedding, 29:
    sudden disappearance, 30:
    suspected murderer of the young Prince, 30.

MUZAFFAR JANG, claimed succession to the Deccan, 44:
    Governor of Bíjapur, 44:
    enlisted service of Maráthás, 44:
    proclaimed himself Súbahdár of the Deccan, 45:
    marched to Trichinopoli, 46:
    at Tanjore, 46, 47:
    retreated on Pondicherry, 47:
    taken prisoner, 47:
    released, 47:
    acknowledged Súbahdár, 47:
    slain on his way to Aurangábád, 47.

MYSORE, an independent territory, 17:
    sent an army to assist Muhammad Alí, 54:
    assisted Lawrence at Trichinopoli, 68.


NADÍR SHÁH, invasion of, 16, 17, 25, 30, 85.

NEGAPATAM, squadron cruised off, 34.

NAPIER'S, Sir W., Peninsular War, quoted, 60n.

Narrative, Sir Eyre Coote's, quoted, 96n., 103n.

NASÍR JANG, son of Nizám-ul-Múlk, succeeded in Southern India, 30, 44:
    slain by his own levies, 47.

NEWCASTLE, Duke of, 143.

NEWCASTLE, Dowager Duchess of, sold Claremont to Clive, 202.

NIZÁM-UL-MÚLK, title granted to the family of Chin Kílich Khán, 17:
    Nawáb of the Karnátik, 18:
    Súbahdár of the Deccan, 23:
    objected to the appointments in the Karnátik made by Saádat-ullá-Khán, 23:
    gave the Maráthás permission to attack Trichinopoli, 25:
    entered Arcot with a large army, 28:
    marched on to Trichinopoli, 28:
    compelled the Maráthás to yield, 28:
    proclaimed his own commander Khojá Abdullah to be Nawáb of the Karnátik, 28:
    Nawáb poisoned, 28:
    he appointed Anwar-ud-dín, provisionally, and to act as guardian to Saiyud Muhammad, 28:
    died, 44.

NORTH, Lord, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 197:
    First Lord of the Treasury, 198:
    his Bill, 200-1.

'NORTHERN CIRCARS,' territory of the Deccan, 17.

NUJM-UD-DAULÁ, Nawáb-Názim, 172.


OMAR BEG, sent to escort Mír Jafar to Clive's camp, 107.

ORME, Mr., quoted, 20n., 30, 81n., 95n., 96n., 103n., 109n., 111n.

OUDH, overtures of Siráj-ud-daulá to the Nawáb-Wazír of, 88:
    Nawáb-Wazír of, threatened rebellion against Mír Jafar, 121:
    Nawáb-Wazír of, protects and aids Mír Kásim, 157:
    throws himself on the mercy of the English, 157, 159:
    Clive's dealings with Nawáb-Wazír of, 171, 173-8.


PAICHANDA, taken by Clive, 73.

PALMER, Captain, at Council of War, 93.

PALMYRAS, Cape, 80.

PALTÍ, town on the Kásimbázár river, 91.

PÁNÍPAT, battle of, mentioned, 16, 173.

PARADIS, sent by Dupleix to relieve Madras, 37:
    entered Madras, 38.

PARKER, John Neville, tried by court-martial, 189:
    reinstated, 189.

PARSHAW, Capt.-Lieut., at Council of War, 93.

PATNÁ, capital of Bihár, Clive accompanied Mír Jafar to, 117:
    Clive entered and subdued, 123:
    Mír Jafar conferred jágír on Clive at, 123:
    Patná stormed, 151:
    English plunders at, 155:
    Mír Kásim died at, 158.

PEACE OF PARIS, Clive voted against, 145.

PEERAGE, Clive raised to an Irish, 143.

Peninsular War, by Sir W. Napier, quoted, 60n.

PEYTON, Commodore, commanded squadron on Commodore Barnett's death, 34:
    cruised off Negapatam, 34:
    sailed for Trincomalee, 34.

PIGOT, Mr., sent with provisions, 49.

PITT, Mr. (afterwards Lord Chatham), Secretary of State, 139:
    Clive's letter to, 139:
    Clive describes Míran as unfit to succeed, 139, 150:
    points urged in the letter, 140:
    Pitt unable to answer the letter, 141:
    Pitt's opinion of Clive, 141:
    resigned, 143:
    Lord Privy Seal, 197:
    resigned on account of ill health, 197.

PLASSEY, army recalled by Clive from, 84:
    Siráj-ud-daulá sent an army to, 88:
    Clive's army reached, 94:
    battle of, 94-106, 183:
    spoils of Plassey, 107-17:
    effects of the spoils, 136.

PONDICHERRY, French settlement, 18:

    French squadron anchored off, 34:
    Dumas, Governor of, 25:
    siege of, 39-41:
    English officials from Madras sent as prisoners to, 38:
    siege of, 39:
    armies of Chánda Sáhib and Muzaffar Jang retreated on, 47:
    Law distinguished at siege of, 61.

PRAGMATIC SANCTION, England upholder of, 31.

PROPRIETORS, Court of, 145-7.

PURNIAH Rájá of, rebelled against Mír Jafar, 114-5:
    went with Clive to Murshidábád to make peace with Mír Jafar, 116.


RAGHUJÍ BHONSLA, leader of the Maráthás, 25.

RÁJÁ DULÁB RÁM, joined Clive, 86:
    position of his troops at Plassey, 97:
    treacherously advised Siráj-ud-daulá to flee from Plassey to Murshidábád, 101:
    Finance Minister, 107, 114:
    retired to his palace, 114:
    refused all intercourse with Mír Jafar, 114:
    reconciliation with Mír Jafar, 117, 168.

RÁJÁ SÁHIB, son of Chánda Sáhib, in command at North Arcot, 54:
    joined by the French, 54:
    siege of Arcot, 55:
    retreated to Vellore, 55:
    defeated at Arni, 57-8:
    took Punamallu, 62:
    repaired damage at Kanchípuram, 62:
    encamped at Vendalúr, 62-3:
    quitted Vendalúr, 63:
    in ambush at Káveripák, 64:
    remarkable battle of Káveripák, 64-6:
    defeated by Clive, 66:
    retreated to Seringham, 68.

RÁJMAHÁL, Siráj-ud-daulá discovered hiding at, 112:
    Mír Jafar and Clive at, 116.

RIO, Clive delayed for nine months at, 12:
    Clive picked up a little Portuguese at, 12.

RUMBOLD, Captain, at Council of War, 92.


SAÁDAT-ULLÁ KHÁN, Nawáb of the Karnátik, 23:
    died in 1732, 23:
    appointed Dost Alí, his nephew, to succeed, 23:
    Bakar Alí to be Governor of Vellore, 23:
    and Ghulám Husén or Chánda Sáhib to be Diwán afterwards, 23.

SAFDAR ALÍ, son of Dost Alí, sent to capture Trichinopoli, 24:
    proclaimed Nawáb, 25:
    persuaded Maráthás to advance on the Karnátik, 26:
    siege of Trichinopoli, 26:
    surrendered, 26:
    sent his family to Madras, 27:
    took refuge at Vellore, 27:
    poisoned by his brother-in-law, 27:
    his son proclaimed Nawáb by the army, 27.

SAIYUD MUHAMMAD KHÁN, son of Safdar Alí, proclaimed Nawáb, 27:
    Anwar-ud-dín appointed his guardian, 28:
    murdered, 30.

SALÁBAT JANG, proclaimed Súbahdár on the death of Muzaffar Jang, 48.

SALLUSTIAN MOTTO, quoted, 16.

SALT MONOPOLY, 164, 165.

SAMIÁVERAM, occupied by Clive, 68:
    battle at, 69-72:
    Clive's victory, 73, 183, 211.

SAMRU, Armenian, in command of a special brigade, 153-4:
    sent to Baksar, 156.

SARFARÁZ, son of, at Dháká, in rebellion against Mír Jafar, 115.

SÁTÁRA, Chánda Sáhib, prisoner at, 26, 31:
    Muzaffar Jang proceeded to, 44.

SAUNDERS, Mr., Governor of Fort St. David, 49:
    sent Clive under Mr. Pigot to take provisions to Trichinopoli, 49:
    gave Clive his captaincy, 50:
    sent him to Devikota, 50.

SCOTT, Colonel, nominated Commander, with Clive as second, 77:
    his death, 77.

SCRAFTON, Mr., sent to escort Mír Jafar to Clive's camp, 107:
    informed Aminchand of false document, 113:
    appointed Supervisor, 199:
    Letters, quoted, 160n.

SELECT COMMITTEE appointed, 147, 161, 191:
    opposition of, 166.

SERINGHAM, island to which French retreated from Trichinopoli, 68, 69.

SÉT, banking-house of the Sét family, 168.

SHÁH ALÍM, troops of, repulsed the invasion of Bihár, 153:
    installed Mír Kásim as Súbahdár, 153:
    Clive's dealing with, 171:
    his capital occupied by the Afgháns, 171:
    meeting with Clive at Allahábád, 174.

SIRÁJ-UD-DAULÁ, Súbahdár, 78:
    seized factory at Kásimbázár, 78:
    marched to Calcutta, 78:
    took possession, 78:
    Black Hole of Calcutta, 78-9:
    Murshidábád capital of, 78, 85:
    grandson of Alí Vardi Khán, 85:
    overtures to Bussy at Haidarábád, 87:
    to the Maráthás, 87:
    to Delhi, 88:
    to Nawáb-Wazír of Oudh, 88:
    quarrelled with Mír Jafar, 88:
    reconciliation with Mír Jafar to fight against Clive, 88:
    sent his army to Kásimbázár, 88:
    Clive sent declaration of war to, 91:
    at Plassey, 95:
    fled to Murshidábád, 101, 112:
    discovered hiding at Rájmahál, 112:
    made over to Mír Jafar, 112:
    interview with Mír Jafar, 112:
    stabbed, 112.

SIVAJÍ, built a fort at Gheriá, 77.

SMITH, Captain F., 187:
    at Mungír, 187.

SMITH, Colonel, 186:
    commanding at Surájpur, 186:
    nominated Commander-in-chief by Clive, 191.

SMITH, Major, 186:
    commanding at Allahábád, 186:
    arrested officers, 186.

STANHOPE, Earl, quoted, 192, 209, 210 and n., 211:
    History of England, 202n.

STANLEY, Mr., proposed an amendment in the attack against Clive, 208.

ST. FRAIS, Mons., commanding French at Plassey, 96:
    formerly member of Council of Chandranagar, 96:
    commenced action at Plassey, 98:
    remained when Siráj-ud-daulá fled, 101:
    met by Kilpatrick, 102:
    retreated, 103:
    his final resistance and death, 104.

STERLING, Mr., private school in Hertfordshire, where Clive went on leaving Merchant Taylors', until he was nominated writer in the service of the East India Company, 10.

STYCHE, Robert Clive born at, 9.

SÚBAH, province, 17, 166, 177.

SÚBAHDÁR, chief of a súbah or province, 17:
    Nizám-ul-Múlk, Súbahdár of the Deccan, 23:
    on his death struggles for succession, 44-7:
    Alí Vardi Khán, Súbahdár of Bengal, Bihár and Orissa, 85:
    Siráj-ud-daulá succeeded him, 85:
    attempts to dethrone the Súbahdár, 86.

SULIVAN, Mr. Lawrence, Chairman of Court of Directors, 144:
    enemy of Clive, 144, 203:
    excluded Clive from seat in the India House, 145:
    elected at Court of Proprietors, 145:
    his candidates for second election defeated,