White Mughals

by William Dalrymple

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  Index

  abortion

  Adam, Robert

  Adams, William

  Ad Begum

  adoption

  Agra; Catholic graveyard; Taj Mahal

  Ahmednagar

  Ainslee, R.

  Akbar I, Shah

  Akbar II, Shah

  Akil ud-Daula. See Khan, Bâqar Ali

  Alam II, Shah

  Alam Bahadur (Mir Abul Qasim) ; appearance of; Aristu Jah and ; Asa Jah II and; Bâqar Ali Khan and; birth of; character of; the Company and; Cornwallis and ; death of; dismissal and exile of; family of ; as First Minister; gardens, interest in; as Governor of Rydroog ; health of; Khair and ; leprosy of; JAK and ; JAK’s liaison with Khair and ; Mah Laqa Bai Chanda and; military role of; as Minister for British Affairs; Palmer on; as patron of arts; public works programme; Russell and; Sharaf un-Nissa and ; Sikander Jah and; Tipu’s treasure and; treachery of; Arthur Wellesley and; Richard Wellesley and

  Albuquerque, Afonso de

  Alexander, Major

  Ali, Meer Hassan

  Ali Jah

  Ali Khan, Nizam of Hyderabad. See Asaf Jah II

  Allard, Bannou Pan Dei

  Aloopaim, Maham

  Anaga, Maham

  Anderson, David

  Anderson, James

  Anglo-Indians

  Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan (Todd)

  Arcot, Nawab of

  Aristu Jah (Ghulam Sayyed Khan); Alam Bahadur and ; appearance of; army of; arts patronised by ; attempt to involve Company in Maratha Campaign; bribery of; British Residency and; character of; children of; death of; durbar; gardens, interest in ; imprisonment of; JAK and; JAK’s liaison with Khair and ;
William Kirkpatrick and ; Mah Laqa Bai Chanda and; Mysore war and; Nana Phadnavis and; pastimes of ; as Prime Minister; Raymond and; release of; sorcery and; Edward Strachey on; Treaty of Khardla and; zenana

  Asadullah, Mir

  Asaf Jah (Nizam ul-Mulk)

  Asaf Jah II (Nizam Ali Khan); achievements of; Alam Bahadur and; appearance of; army of ; arts patronised by ; British Residency and; character of; death of; durbar ; at festivals; gardens, interest in; health of; Hyderabad and; intelligence network ; JAK and ; James Kirkpatrick on; William Kirkpatrick and;

  Mah Laqa Bai Chanda and; Maratha Campaign; Mysore Wars and, see Mysore Wars; oratory skills of; Palmer & Co. and; pastimes of; plots against; Raymond and; Subsidiary Force and; succession to ; throne assumed by; Tipu Sultan of Mysore and, see Mysore Wars; treaties with ; zenana

  Asaf Jah III (Akbar Ali Khan)

  aseels

  Asiatic Journal

  Asiatic Society of Bengal

  astronomy

  Atagha Khan

  Aurangabad

  Aurangzeb

  Avadh, Nawab of

  Badshahi Ashur Khana

  Bahar-i-Ishq (Shauq)

  Baillie, Ewen

  Baird, David

  Baji Rao II

  Bakshi Begum

  Bangalore

  Barlow, George

  Barnard, Andrew

  Barnard, Anne

  Barros

  Barun, Mama

  Bassein

  Begum’s Garden

  Beig, Sadue

  Bengal

  Berar

  bhands

  bibis

  Bidar

  Bidri, Munshi Khader Kahn

  Bidri box

  birth and childhood rites

  Bishop, Benjamin

  Blackiston, Major

  Blackwelle, Josua

  Blaquière, W.C.

  Blunt, Mr

  Boigne, Adèle d’(née d’Osmond)

  Boigne, Anne de

  Boigne, Benoît de

  Boigne, Charles de

  Bombay

  Bourquoin, Louis

  Bowser, Lieutenant Colonel

  Boyd, John P.

  Breton, Francis

  Britain: Anglo-Indian children in France and, war between; India and, relation between; Indian wives in ; weather in

  British Idolatry in India (Ainslie)

  British in India; attitude toward country ; Brahminised; death of; Deccani sultanates and; defections by ; Imperialist approach ; independent, see independent British; Indianisation of(see also Islam/Muslims); love affairs with Indians; racism of ; real India and; rise to power of; Shushtari on

  British Residency in Hyderabad; architecture of; Aristu Jah and; Asaf Jah II and;

  cuisine in; decay of ; gardens of ; Khair moves to;

  JAK and ; JAK on ; Malcolm on;

  model of; observatory; pastimes in;

  preservation of; rebuilding of ; zenana

  Brooke, James

  Brown, Capability

  Brunton, James

  Buchanan, Claudius

  Bukshee Begum

  Buller, Charles

  Buller, Charles (son)

  Buller, Isabella (née Kirkpatrick)

  Buller, Rose

  Burke, Edmund

  Burne-Jones, Edward

  Burton, Richard

  Calcutta ; bibis; British and hinduism; Council; death of Europeans in; Fort William; Fort William College; gap between rest of India and; Government House ; Hindu College; Indianised Britons in; journey to Masulipatam from; Khair and Sharaf un-Nissa in; JAK’s death and burial; Shushtari on ; Richard Wellesley on; Writers

  Calcutta Gazette

  Calcutta Telegraph

  Campbell, Colin

  Canbay, Nawab of

  Canon of Medicine (Ibn Sina)

  Carlyle, Jane Welsh

  Carlyle, Thomas; marriage of

  Carnehan, Peachey

  Champa, Mama

  Chand, Mir

  Chanda, Raj Kanwar Bai

  Chanda, Mah Laqa Bai

  Chand Bibi

  Charles II

  Char Minar

  Charnock, Job

  childhood and birth rites

  Chinnery, George

  Chinnery, John

  circumcision

  cleanliness

  clergymen

  Clive, Edward

  Clive, Robert

  Close, Barry

  clothing customs; or army

  Code of Gentoo Laws, A (Halhed)

  Collins, Colonel John

  Collins, John (‘King Collins’)

  Collins, Wilkie

  Commercial Treaty

  Compagnie des Indes Orientales

  Copernicus

  Cornwallis, Charles: Alam Bahadur and ; death of; as Governor General ; JAK and ; William Palmer and ; policies of; return to India; Tipu’s defeat and

  Court, Claude Auguste

  Court, Fezli Azam Joo

  courtesans . See also bibis

  Crawford, Alexander

  Critical Review

  cultures, mingling of

  Currie, Mr

  Daftar Arbab-i-Nishaat

  Dalrymple, G. Wemyss

  Dalrymple, James

  Dalrymple, Margaret

  Dalrymple, North

  Dalrymple, Samuel

  Dalrymple, Mrs Samuel

  Daly, Jane

  Dara Jah

  Dar ul-Shifa

  Das, Mr

  Daulatabad

  Dauran, Mir

  Davidson, Eliza

  Deccan; architecture; art and culture of ; conquest attempts; famine in ; foreigners in; gardening principles; Middle Eastern immigration to; Muslim sultanates ; Shi’ism in

  Deccani, Rahim

  Deccani Urdu

  Delhi

  Description of the Kingdom of Nepal, A (William Kirkpatrick)

  Dhoolaury Bibi

  diamonds

  Dieman, Anthony van

  Dilshad Agha

  divan

  Diwali

  Ducarrol, Mrs

  Duller, Mrs

  Duncan, Jonathan

  Dundas, Henry

  Dundrenec, Chevalier

  Durdanah Begum

  Dutch community. See also East India Company, Dutch

  East India Company, British; architecture of; army (see also Subsidiary Force); Board of Control; clothing of army ; cultural mingling, see cultures, mingling of; defections from ; early outposts; factors; financial deficits; growth of; and hinduism; in Hyderabad; Imperialist approach of (see also Wellesley, Richard Colley, Marquess Wellesley); Indian Mutiny (1857) ; library, xln, xlii, xlvi; loss of influence in Hyderabad; in Mughal period ; Mysore Wars, see Mysore Wars; neutrality in Maratha Campaign ; racial attitudes of ; records; scholar-officials ; statutes and regulations of; success of; transformation of; treaties with Asaf Jah II, treaties with Sikander Jah; Wellesley and, see Wellesley, Richard Colley (Marquess Wellesley); Writers

  East India Company, Dutch

  East India Company, French. See Compagnie des Indes Orientales

  East India Vade Mecum (Williamson)

  Edmonstone, Neil

  Elers, George

  Elphinstone, Mountstuart

  erotic literature

  etiquette

  Eton

  eunuchs

  European in India, The (Williamson)

  evangelism

  Exeter

  Fanthôme, Bernard

  Fareb-i-Ishq (Shauq)

  Farzand Begum

  Fenton, Elizabeth

  ferasat

  Feridun Jah

  Filoze, Michael

  Finglas, Michael

  Firingi Pura (Foreigners’Town)

  Fisher, Michael

  food and food customs

  Foote, Samuel

  Fort George

  Fort William

  Fort William College

  Fowke, Joseph

  Fox, Charles James


  France and the French; in Hyderabad ; JAK on; Tipu Sultan of Mysore and

  Francis, Philip

  Franklin, William

  Fraser, James Baillie

  Fraser, William

  Fresne, Chevalier de

  Gama, Vasco da

  gardening principles, Deccani

  Gardner, Alan

  Gardner, Bartholomew

  Gardner, Edward

  Gardner, James

  Gardner, James Jehangir Shikoh

  Gardner, Mukhta Begum

  Gardner, Mulka Begum

  Gardner, William Linnaeus: Anglo-Indian dynasty of; army career of ; Gardner’s Horse and ; Indian wife of; JAK and; Stuart and

  George III

  Ghulam Sayyed Khan. See Aristu Jah

  Gillanders, Francis

  Goa, Portuguese in

  Golconda; diamonds

  Gordon, Margaret

  Government Connection with Idolatry in India, The (Thompson)

  Grant, Charles

  Grant, James

  Gresley, Francis

  Gulbadan

  Gulzar i-Asafiya (Ghulam Husain Khan)

  Guntur

  Haidar, Zeb un-Nissa

  Haidar Ali

  Halhed, Nathaniel Brassey

  Halifax, Lady-393n

  Hamilton, Alexander

  Hamilton, Captain

  Hare, David

  Hare, Doctor

  Harris, General

  Hasan Aga (Samson Rowlie)

  Hastings, Warren

  Hastings diamond

  Hawkins, William

  Hawley, President

  Hazara

  Heber, Reginald

  Hemming, William

  Herschel, William

  Hessing, George

  Hickey, Thomas

  Hickey, William

  Hindu College (Calcutta)

  Hindus and Hinduism; British admiration of; in the Deccan; decrease in popularity among British;

  East India Company and; evangelism towards; Islam and;

  Maula Ali festival and;

  Muharram festival and; Portuguese and; women in

  Hindustan

  Hindustani

  Hodges, William

  Holkar, Jaswant Rao

  Holland, John

  Holwell, John Zephania

  Home, Robert

  Hood, Mary

  hookah-smoking

  Hope Diamond

  Humayun Nama (Gulbadan)

  Hunter, William

  Huxley, Aldous

  Hyderabad; Anglo-French rivalry in; art and culture; Asaf Jah II and; ashur khanas; bazaars; British Residency in, see British Residency in Hyderabad; British women in; cantonments, see Subsidiary Force; Char Minar; civil war; cultural mingling; Dar ul-Shifa; divided nature of society in; East India Company in ; festivals (see also specific festivals); founding of state of ; French in; gardens; Indian Mutiny in (1857); Irani Gulli; Maidan-i-Dilkusha; Mecca Masjid ; Mir Alam Mandi; Mughal influence on; nautch parties ; old city; poverty in ; public works programme; Raymond’s grave; religions, mingling of; Edward Strachey on ; strategic importance of