INDEX. ABO Act XI. of 1836 (the 'Black Act'), - III. of 1884, agitation in connection changes made by, 155-157 'Acts,' distinguished from 'Regula- Administration, civil, 256; employ- Agori Panth, sect of, 318note Agricultural department, 245, 247, - departments, establishment of, 170- ARM A griculture, superstitions connected Aitchison, Sir Charles, on the relations of Native States with the British Ajmir, Mayo College at, 180-181 irrigation works made by, 128 system of land revenue under, 78 Aligarh, Sir Syad Ahmad Khan's Allahabad, seat of Provincial Govern- university of, 169, 273-274 Argyll, Duke of, on Salt tax, 95–96 Army, 54-65 - - before the Mutiny, 55-56, 60 - Native, military qualities of, 64– - possible effect of political agi- - present constitution of, 59 Punjab, 63 reorganisation of, after the Mutiny, 56-58, 61-62 sanitary condition of, 58-59 strength of, 56, 57, 63-64 system of recruitment, 56, 62-64 of Hyderabad, 325-326 Rajputana States, 326-327 Sikh States, 327 - products of, 331 rainfall of, 13 self-government in, 340 - subdivision of land in, 344 Tenancy Act of 1885, the, 350 zemindars and ryots in, 336-340, Bengalis, Lord Macaulay on their - not capable of ruling the manlier - exceptional character of, 329 - political declamation of, 336 their attitude towards cruel Bengal Proper, area and population BER Berar, assignment of, to British Go- vernment, 301, 326 Bernier, his estimate of land revenue under Aurangzeb, 81 Bhopal, 183, 301 -area and population of, 298 note, misgovernment in, 317-318 Blanford, Mr., on Indian Meteorology, Bombay, army, 55-57, 59, 62 - assessment of land revenue in, 79, - average incidence of land revenue, contrasted with Calcutta, 332 increase in wealth of agricultural infanticide in, 290 Máratha Bráhmans of, 355 Bondi, the Rája of, 311-312 numbers of, 216-217, 286 - of Bengal, 354-355 - readiness of, to accept Moham- on public works under East India Buck, Sir Edward, his reforms in the on the agricultural system, 240 Buckle, Mr., referred to, 228 Buddha, 200 Burke, his description of the Rohillas, Burma, 12, 37 CADASTRAL SURVEY, 242, 249 none in Bengal, 341 university of, 169, 273 of rights of the Bengal peasantry,339 number of different castes, 216 Castes, criminal, 294-296 Catrou, his 'Histoire générale de Cautley, discovery of fossil remains Central and Southern India, irriga- Central Provinces, Government of, 37 Chefoo Convention, the, 87 Chief Commissioners of Assam, -attitude of nobility and upper - - character of collegiate instruc- first establishment of, in Bengal, Colvin, Mr. John, 125 Sir Auckland, on the results of Commander-in-Chief in India, 34, 58 Commissioners of Divisions, 276 and the Bengal zemindars, 337 Cotton duties, measures towards their Council for Presidency of Bengal, 31 DAL Dalhousie, Lord, his policy in regard Damodar Panth, 316-317 Darbhanga, estates of Rája of, 349 Debt, the Public, 135-138 of Government, 45-48 Delhi, 200, 201, 203 note, 204 - proclamation of the Queen as Em- District, the unit of administration, 265 ELP Education, collegiate instruction,171- - compulsory, not possible, 182 department of, 277 disregard of Oriental literature, - English, its effect on Native cha- in Bengal, effects of, 351-353, 335- existing system of, 167-168 - expenditure on, in 1885-86, 186 first establishment of colleges in Government and aided institutions - higher, in Northern India, 273-274 medical and Lady Dufferin's Asso- - neglect of Indian subjects in Go- its numerical results, 186-188 - of native chiefs, 179-181 policy of Lord William Bentinck - primary, 181-183 neglect of, 166 in North-Western Provinces and -scientific, need and neglect of, 190- - - technical, 170 - - universities, 169, 170 work undertaken by missionaries, Elliot, Sir Henry, his Races of the North-Western Provinces,' 211 note Elphinstone, Mountstuart, 208 Ion land revenue under Native |