India, Old and New eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 367 pages of information about India, Old and New.

India, Old and New eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 367 pages of information about India, Old and New.

Ala-ud-Din Khilji, 48

Alai Darwazah, the, 48

Alexander the Great’s invasion, 27, 28, 33

Ali brothers, the, Mahomed and Shaukat, 140, 188-9, 191, 197, 288, 291, 297 n.

Aligurh, Mahomedan College at, 135-6, 197

Allahabad outbreak, 177

All-India Moslem League, 136, 138, 145, 147, 173

All-India Trades Congress, 272

Altamsh, 36, 47

Americans in Tata Company, 248, 253

Amritsar:  outbreak, 175-6, 183;
  Jallianwala Bagh, 177-9, 211;
  British Government’s despatch, 180-82;
  Duke of Connaught on, 228, 303;
  Resolutions on, 209, 228-30, 302

Annexation policy of Dalhousie, 81

Arya Somaj, 95

Aryan races, 15, 22, 31, 35;
  social system, 22-3, 42-3, 217, 219

Asiatics’ Trading and Land Act (South Africa), 281

Asoka, King, 2, 27, 29-32, 35

Asquith, Rt.  Hon. H.H., on a “new angle of vision,” 141, 300

Asvamedha, the, 2, 4, 32, 37, 40

Aurungzeb, Emperor, 61

Australia and Asiatics, 282

Baber, Emperor, 3, 56

Baghavat-Ghita, the, 35, 113

Bakar-Id festival, 288

Bana, the Brahman, 39

Bande Materam,” 115

Banerjee, Sir Surendranath, 118, 204, 207

Basu, Mr. Bupendranath, 145

Baz Bahadur, 53

Behar and Orissa, 8, 129

Benares University, Gandhi and, 197

Bendusara, King, 29

Bengal Presidency, 69, 71, 72, 114
  elections in, 202-4
  “Non-co-operation” fails in, 203-4, 208
  Partition of, see Partition
  permanent settlement in, 199-200

Bengalees: 
  unrest among, 12, 114-115, 203
  Western education and, 8, 205-7

Bentinck, Lord William, 79, 80, 98

Besant, Mrs., 146, 148, 150, 159, 161

Bhuvaneshwar temples, 38

Bidar, 50

Bijapur, 50, 55

Bikanir, Maharajah of, 141

Bimbisara, King, 26, 27

Bolpur, school at, 254

Bombay, 6
  city improvement, 271
  cotton mills, 270, 271
  labour troubles, 270, 273-4

Bombay Presidency, 69, 71
  elections in, 194-6

Bonnerji, Mr., 92, 93

Boycott movements, 4, 113, 294. 
  See Swadeshi

Brahmanas, the, 16, 17-18

Brahmans: 
  Akbar and, 60
  supremacy of, 17-18, 23, 27, 37-8, 41, 44, 45, 84, 190, 219-220,
  221-4;
  Buddhism and, 27;
  Gandhi and, 190
  temple, 11

Brahmo-Somaj movement, 80, 95

British, arrival of, in India, 3-4, 5, 62, 66-7, 220

British administration, share of Indians in, 12-13, 97, 101-10, 132-5, 163-4

British Army in India, 275-7

British Empire, India’s partnership in, its implications, 164, 306-10

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