Fortune
Fort William: description; garrison formed; defences; state of defences; citizens of Calcutta retire into; siege of; evacuation of women and children; a third of garrison deserts; falls; recaptured see also Calcutta
Fothergill, Dr
Fox, Charles James
Fox, Henry
France: war against; rivalry with Britain begins; sets up trading centres in India; war with Holland; control all of Southern India; Bengali settlements; pays ransom for Chandernagore; influence in Bengal crushed; forces at Plassey
Francis, Philip
Frankland, William: council member; proclaimed lieutenant-colonel; at siege of Fort William; deserts Fort William
French East India Company
French fleet: arrival; attacks Fort St George; flees to Pondicherry
Friend, Cuves
Fullerton, William
Fulta
G
gamashtas
Gaves, Richard
George II, King: character
George III, King
Ghasita Begum
Gheria
Ghulam Husain
Gingee
Glass, Lieutenant
Godeheu, M
Goupil, M.
government, system of
Govindpur
Grafton, Duke of
Gray, George
Grenville, George
Guingens, Captain Rudolph: sent to help Muhammad Ali; declines to capture Arcot; refuses to send support to Clive at Arcot; at Trichinopoly; Clive’s contempt for; criticisms of; dilatoriness; quarrels with Muhammad Ali
H
Hancock, Philadelphia
Hardwicke, Earl of
Hastings, Warren: resident at palace of Nawab; affair with Philadelphia Hancock; appointed governor; assumes more direct control in Bengal; and Sulivan; career in India; character; compared to Clive; dismissed by Company; fights duel with Francis; achievements
Hay, William
Heber, Bishop
Herring, Thomas
Hertford, Lady
Hertford, Lord
Hinde, Governor
Hindus: Moslems make use of; initially welcome Europeans; oppressed by Moslems; merchants go out of business
Holland: defeat the Portuguese; war with France; Bengali defences; pays ransome for Chinsurah; conspiracy against British
Holt, Peter
Holwell, Josiah: in Black Hole; council member; on Minchin; in siege of Fort William; shackled; taken to Murshidabad; freed; quarrels with Drake; brings news of Black Hole to London; desire to replace Mir Jafir; bribed by Mir Kasim
Hope Hall
Hugli
Hugli river: Clive’s journey up
Hunter
Husain Ali Khan
Hyderabad: Nasir Jang seizes; Nizam of
Hyder Ali
I
Impey, Judge
India: colonial history; English enclaves; nature of warfare in; history of Mogul Empire; colonialists’ attitudes to; condition of when Europeans arrived; nature of Mongol rule; British Raj endows with elements for stability; armies
Ingham, Samuel
J
Jacobite Rebellion
James, Commodore
James, Lawrence
Jenner, Charles
Johnstone, George
Johnstone, John; and corruption; ignores edict about gifts; resigns
K
Karikal
Kasimbazar: entrepot founded; and Siraj-ud-Daula; surrender of; surrounded
Kaveripak
Keate, George
Keene, William
Kelsall, Jenny see Latham, Jenny
Kelsey
Kent
Kent, William
Kilpatrick, Major James: leads relief for Arcot; and Calcutta; and Hugli; at Plassey; death
Kingfisher
King, William
Kutwa
L
Lally, Comte de
Latham, Captain Thomas
Latham, Jenny
La Volonté
Law, Jacques: at Trichinopoly; on Siraj-ud-Daula
Law, Jean: at Kasimbazar; captured; received by Clive
Lawrence, Major Stringer: arrival at Fort St David; captured at French fort; release; and Rajah of Tajore; salary cut and departure; at relief of Trichinopoly; returns to India; and Chanda Sahib’s murder; greets Clive on his return to India; fights in siege of Madras
Leycester, Ralph
London
Luft un-Nisa
Lushington, Mr
Lycet, Ralph
Lydbury North
M
Macaulay, Thomas Babington: on life aboard an Indiaman; on Black Hole of Calcutta; on Bengal; on Siraj-ud-Daula; on Clive’s duplicity; on Plassey; on Omichand; on attacks on Clive; on parliament’s verdict on Clive; on Nundcomar’s execution
Madras: Clive’s arrival in; description; Black Town; French occupation of; returned by British by treaty; recovered by Britain; attacked by Raza Sahib; news of fall of Calcutta arrives; besieged by French; and Hyder Ali see also Fort St George
Mahendie, William
Malcolm, Sir John
Manningham, Charles: council member; procaimed colonel; siege of Fort William; deserts Fort William
Marathas: first attack on empire; Arcot and; join Clive; at battle near Arni; at Trichinopoly; and Bengal
Market Drayton
Marlborough
Maskelyne, Edmund (Mun): imprisonment and escape; enlists as soldier; his sister Margaret arrives in Fort St George; on expedition to recapture Calcutta; Astronomer Royal
Maskelyne, Margaret see Clive, Margaret (wife)
Masulipatam
Merchant Taylor’s school
middle classes
Minchin, Captain
Minney, R.J.
Miran: allegedly in plot to assassinate Clive; in decision to kill Siraj-ud-Daula; character; Shahzada and; killed
Mir Daud
Mir Jafar: as protector of Siraj-ud-Daula; intriguing before Plassey; and Siraj-ud-Daula; at battle of Plassey; explains conduct to Clive; money paid by British by end of rule; decision to kill Siraj-ud-Daula; character; taming Ramnarayan; conspiring against British; and Clive’s jagir; attempts to replace; opposes brother-in-law as chief minister; abdicates; reinstated as Nawab; death; son
Mir Kasim; begins reign of terror; switches capital; and taxes; moves armies to Patna; retreats to Patna; war declared on; ruthlessness; death; loots treasury
Mir Madan
Mirza Muhammad see Siraj-ud-Daula
Moden Sahib
Mohan Lal
monarchy
Monghyr
Montagu, Duchess of
Moreton Saye
Moreton Saye church
Morse, Nicholas
Muhammad Ali: sent to help British at Fort St David; attacks French; escaped when father killed; at Trichinopoly; character; suggests capture of Arcot; refusal to send support to Clive at Arcot; undisputed ruler of Carnatic; quarrel with Regent of Mysore
Muhammad Shah
Munro, Major Hector
Murshidabad
Muzaffar Jang
Mysore, Regent of: Arcot and; Trichinopoly and; quarrel with Muhammad Ali
N
‘nabobs’
Nadir Shah
Najm-ud-Daula: reduced to constitutional monarch; government deteriorates
Newcastle, Duke of
Nicholson, Captain
Northern Circars
North, Lord
Nubkissen
Nundcomar
O
Oakly
Omichand: Siraj-ud-Daula HQ established in his garden; arrested; bears grudge towards British; throws in with Siraj-ud-Daula; at Fulta; offers services as mediator; intriguing before Plassey; false treaty imposed on; reaction when told of false treaty; death
Orissa
Orme, Robert: makes friends with Clive; on Moslems; on Arcot; causes trouble between Lawrence and Saun
ders; tries to cause trouble between Clive and Saunders; monopolises Clive on passage to England; appointed councillor in Madras; History of the Military Transactions; as Clive’s biographer; on Aliverdi Khan; returns to Britain; complains about Clive’s neglect
Oudh, Begum of
Oudh, Nawab of
P
Paradis, Captain Louis
Pardoe, Robert
Paris, Peace of
parliament
Patna
Patoun, William
Pearkes, Richard
Pelham
Pelham, Henry
Pernambuco
Perrin’s Redoubt
Persians
Petrie, John
Piccard, Ensign
Pigot, George; and fall of Calcutta; and Nizam of Hyderabad; fights in siege of Madras
Pitchanda
Pitt, William (Earl of Chatham): character; praises Clive after Plassey; and Clive’s ideas about Indian empire; as issue politician; ministry of; replaced as prime minister; on corruption in India; opinion of Clive’s parliamentary speech in his defence; incapacitation of; and America
Plassey, Battle of
Pocock, Rear-Admiral George
Pondicherry: French trading centre set up; British siege of; British capture of
Portuguese
Powis, Earl of
Prince
Prince, Richard
Protector
Pybus, John: early days in India; imprisonment and escape; on Arcot expedition
Pym, John
Q
Queen Square house
R
Rai, Ranjit
Rai Durlabh: as protector of Siraj-ud-Daula; attempt to mediate; at Plassey; intriguing before Plassey; plot with Ramnarayan; flees to Calcutta; and Miran; minister to Najm-ud-Daula
Rajmahal
Ramnarayan
Rao, Balaji
Rao, Buzangara: ambushed by Raza Shah; returns to Trichinopoly
Rao, Morari; at Trichinopoly
Raza Sahib: and Arcot; and Arni; war chest seized; raid on Madras; ambushes Clive; at Kaveripak; leaves for Arcot
Regulating Bill
Regulatory Act
Reinhardt, Walter see Sumru
Renault, Pierre
Revell
Reza Khan, Muhammad
Rivett, Elizabeth
Robinson, Sir Thomas
Rockingham, Marquess of
Rohillas
Rous, Thomas
Rumbold, Thomas
S
Saif-ud-Daula
St Frais, M. de
Salabat Jang
Salim, Ghulam Husain
Salisbury
Samiaveram
Sandwich, Earl of
Sarfaraz, Nawab
Saunders, Admiral Sir Charles
Saunders, Thomas: becomes Governor of Fort St David; character; opinion of Lawrence; and Arcot; orders assault on Convejeeram; orders attack on Vendalore; pettiness as Clive leaves for England
Scawen, Thomas
Scrafton, Luke
Seths: intriguing before Plassey; conspire with Shahzada; placed under house arrest; arrested; beheaded
Seth, The Jagat
Seward, Gabriel
Shahzada, designs on Bengal
Shaukut Jang
Shawlum
Shelburne, Earl of
Shuja-ud-Daula
Siraj-ud-Daula: character; cruelty; loathing of British; sexual appetite; wealth; arguments against British; and Krishna Das; and capture of Fort William; and Black Hole of Calcutta; and Fulta; at attack on Calcutta; withdraws from Calcutta; and the French; and Mir Jafar; decides to fight British at Plassey; state of mind before Plassey; position before Plassey; at Plassey; flees; flees to Patna; captured and killed
Smith, Captain F.
Smith, Dick
social change
Society of Trade
speed
Speke, Billy
Speke, Captain Henry
Spencer, John
Srirangam
Stainforth, Captain John
Stanhope, Lord
Strachey, Henry: journey to India with Clive; Margaret Clive develops fixation for; member of parliament; marries Jenny Latham; brings news of vote on Burgoyne’s resolution; on Clive’s illness; and Clive’s death
Strachey, Jane
Strachey, Sir Edward
Strahan
Styche Hall: restraint of refurbishment; Clive’s birth in; reduction of mortgage on; rebuilding of
Sulivan, Laurence: becomes chairman of directors of East India Company; character; Clive’s implacable enemy; supports government; war with Clive; loses chairmanship; elected back on to board; ruined; leaves board of governors; returns to board; connives with people Clive had criticised; ejected from board
Sumner, Mrs William
Sumner, William
Sumru
Sutherland, Dame Lucy
Sykes, Francis
Symmonds, Ensign
T
Tabatabai, Ghulam Husain
Tanjore, Rajah of
Tanjore, regent of
Teignmouth, Lord
Thana
Thurlow, Edward
Timiri
Travancore, Rajah of
Trenwith, Lieutenant
Trichinopoly: Muhammad Ali at; relief of; astrology and omens; allies at; effects of
turnpike roads
Tyger
U
Utatur
V
Valikondapuram
Vanbrugh, Sir John
Vansittart, George
Vansittart, Henry; character; and Mir Kasim; wishes to replace Mir Jafar; and Shah Alum; bribing of; ships elephants to King George; quarrels with Clive; elected back on to board; ruined; and Warren Hastings
Vellore
Vendalore
Verelst, Henry
Vernet
W
Wajid, Khwaja
Walcot: setting; Clive’s pride in; unostentatiousness of; Clive buys; refurbishment
Walcot, Charles
Walpole
Walpole, Horace
Walpole, Sir Robert: George II and; deposition of
Walsh, John: character; announces the departure of the French fleet; imprisonment and escape; greets Clive on his return to India; on expedition to recapture Calcutta; as emissary to Siraj-ud-Daula; member of parliament
Wandewash, Battle of
Watson, Vice-Admiral Charles: arrives in India; pacifies money quarrel; on expedition to recapture Calcutta; in Hugli attack; row with Clive; and Siraj-ud-Daula; at Chandernagore; and the false treaty; signature forged; and Plassey; death
Watts, William: on Siraj-ud-Daula; and Krishna Das; under siege; intriguing before Plassey; in flight from Murshidabad; leaves India
Wedderburn, Alexander
West, Benjamin
White, Gilbert
Wilkes, John
Wynn, Sir Watkin Williams
Wilson, Dr
Winchester
Y
Yar Latuf Khan; at Plassey
Yorke, Ensign
Young, Arthur
Z
Zain-ud-Din
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