India Discovered (38 page)

Gupta Brahmi, script, 44, 46, 50, 71

Gupta empire, 73, 89, 91, 153, 162

Gurkhas, 39, 191, 200

Gwalior, 22, 79, 129–30, 139–41, 146, 193, 196

Halebid, 118, 119–20, 177

Halhed, Nathaniel, 24, 29

Harappa, 165, 166, 167, 170, 171–2, 174

Harrington, J., 45

Harsha, King, 73

Hastings, Warren, Gov.-Gen., 22, 23, 24, 25, 45, 76

Havell, Ernest, 96, 105–9, 116, 121–3, 125–30, 146, 155–60, 172

Heber, Bishop R., 40, 112, 133, 134,
135, 143–4, 192, 194, 209

Hickey, Wm., 19

Himalayas, 39, 188–91, 198, 200

Hodges, Wm., 22, 40, 143

Hodgson, B. H., 48, 55, 57, 67–9, 182, 198–200, 201–4, 208, 209, 210

Hooker, Sir J. D., 207, 208

Hsuan Tsang, 73, 74, 80–1, 122, 165

Hughli, R., 21, 34

Humayun, emperor, 126, 132, 147

Hyderabad, 148, 154, 179, 186

Indian Mutiny, 80, 136–7, 138, 140

Indus Valley civilization, 165–74

Islamic influences, 112, 122–8, 156

Itimad-ud-Daula, tomb of, 142, 147

Jainism, 66, 102, 116, 124, 127, 140, 146, 161, 178–9, 182, 196–8

Jaipur, 193, 195

Jehangir, emperor, 139, 146, 147, 158

Jerdon, Dr T. C., 205–6

Jodhpur, 129–30, 193, 195

Jogeshwar, 41

Jones, Sir John, 138

Jones, Sir William, 19–38, 39, 45, 46, 50, 66, 75, 103, 175, 190, 202, 203, 206

Kalidasa, 32–3, 48, 91

Kanchipuram, 117, 146

Kanheri, 41, 42

Kanishka, King, 94, 104

Karli, 42, 43

Kashmir, 39, 78, 91, 208

Kathmandu, 48, 67, 199–200

Keith, Maj., 141

Khajuraho, 14, 40, 81, 98–101, 108, 109, 120–1, 146, 176

Kharosthi, script, 90, 91, 164

Khizrabad, 56

Khyber Pass, 62

Kincaid, Gen., 86

Kipling, R., 144

Kirkpatrick, Wm., 190

Kittoe, Lieut. M., 58, 59–60, 78

Konarak, 100, 108, 146

Koros,
A. Czoma de, 68–9, 71

Krishnagar, 29–30, 31

Kushan empire, 90, 94, 96

Kutila script, 44–5

Ladakh, 66, 68, 78

Lahore, 146

Lambton, Wm., 182–7

Lauriya Nandangarh, pillar, 49, 57

Leitner, Dr G., 93

Lothal, 169

Lutyens, Sir E., 130

Lytton, Lord, Viceroy, 142

Macaulay, T. B., Lord, 77–8, 111, 121

Mackenzie, Col. Colin, 179–82

Maddock, H., 69, 86

Madras, 19, 20, 42, 62, 108, 181,
183, 185

Madurai, 117

Mahabalipuram, 42–3, 67, 108, 117–8

Mahabharatha,
25, 45

Mahmud of Ghazni, sultan, 102, 111

Mandu, 146

Manikyala,
stupa, 69,
87

Mardan, 97

Markham, Sir Clements, 154, 189, 209

Marshall, John, 28, 43, 176, 189, 198, 202

Marshall, Sir John H., 96–7, 145–7, 154, 155, 159, 166–74

Masar, 82

Masson, Charles, 88–9, 90, 165, 210

Mathura, 48, 74, 82, 92, 102–4, 105, 106,
210

Mauryan empire, 54, 89, 90

Megasthenes, 35–6, 62, 73

Metcalfe, Sir Thomas, 136

Mill, James, 76

Mill, Revd W. H., 47, 48

Moghul empire, 40, 125–8, 132–4, 146–7, 156, 157–8, 201

Mohenjo-daro, 166–74

Montpezir, 41

Moorcroft, Wm., 68

Muller, Prof. Max., 38

Mumtaz Mahal, empress, 126

Mysore, 40, 57, 118, 177–8, 182

Mysore Survey, 177–8, 180

Nadia, 29

Nadir Shah, king, 137

Nagpur,
83, 187

Narwar, palaces, 131–2

Nepal, 39, 48, 66, 67–8, 189, 190–1, 198–200, 208, 209

Orchha, palaces, 129–30, 161

Orissa, 47, 58, 62, 112, 121

Orsini, Count, 154

Pali, script, 52

Parasnath, 196

Pataliputra, 35–6, 62, 67, 91

Patna, 35–6

Peshawar, 57, 90, 93

Pondicherry, 185

Poona, 40

Portuguese, 24, 41

Porus, king, 43

Postans, Lieut., 60–1

Postans, Mrs, 60–1, 144

Prinsep,
James, 39, 46–61, 70, 71, 75, 78, 87, 89, 90, 92, 151, 176, 188, 210

Ptolemy, 59, 61, 62

Puri, 121

Qutb Minar, 116, 123–4, 133, 134, 135–6

Rajaona, 82

Rajasthan, 40, 161, 168, 193–6

Rajatarangini, 33

Rajputs, 87, 101, 128–30, 131, 140, 158, 160–1, 193–6

Ralph, Mr, 151–3, 161

Ramayana,
119, 197

Ramlochand, 29

Ranjit Singh, 69, 75, 76–7, 88

Rennell, James, 35

Roberts, Emma, 144

Rothenstein, Sir Wm., 105, 159, 160

Rousselet, Louis, 140–1

Roxburgh, Wm., 206–7

Royal Asiatic Society, London, 113, 153

Royle, John F., 208, 209

Safdar Jang, tomb of, 135

Saharanpur, 208, 209

Salsette, 41

Salt, Henry, 41

Samudragupta, emperor, 47, 48

Sanchi, 51, 52, 57, 64–7, 69, 79, 84, 85, 86, 91, 114

Sanskrit, 24–5, 29–33, 37, 38, 45, 48, 52, 71, 77, 91, 164

Sarnath, 48, 70,
72, 74, 75

Sassaram, 115

Scythians, 90

Seleucus Nicator, emperor, 35–6

Shahbazgarhi, rock inscription, 90

Shan Jehan, emperor, 125, 126–7, 139, 142

Sind, 166

Siwaliks, 210

Smith, Capt. E., 51, 57

Smith, Maj. R., 51, 133–4, 148

Smith, Vincent, 95–6, 157, 172

Somnath, 111

Somnathpur, 118, 119

Son R., 36

Sravana Belgola, 178–9, 196

Stacy, Col., 51, 92, 93, 95, 210

Strachey, Sir J.,
142

Sultanganj, 82

Survey of India, 176–91

Swat, 93, 94

Taj Mahal, 22, 40, 43, 112, 126–7, 142–4, 147

Tanjore, 117, 185–6

Taxila, 82, 91, 96–7

Taylor, Bayard, 144

Terry, Edward, 201

Thomson, Thomas, 208

Thurston, Edgar, 198

Tibet, 66, 68, 190, 208

Tigowa, 82

Tipu Sultan of Mysore, 39, 76, 176, 180

Tiwar, 82

Tod, Col. James, 58–9, 87, 127, 182, 192–8

Tughlakabad, 124–5, 133

Tughluk Shah, Sultan, 124–5, 126, 146

Tumour, George, 53

Twining, Thomas, 15, 34, 132, 133, 143, 147, 156

Udaipur, 130, 193, 194, 195

Valentia, Lord, 41, 42

Ventura, Gen., 69–70, 87, 88

Vijayanagar, 128, 146

Vikramaditya, king, 33

Wallich, Nathaniel, 207, 209–10

Waugh, Andrew, 189, 191

Wellesley, Sir Arthur, later Duke of Wellington, 176, 178, 179–80, 182–3, 202

Wellesley, Richard,
Lord

Mornington, Gov.-Gen., 177, 202

Westmacott, Prof., 104

Wheeler, Sir Mortimer, 75, 169, 174

Wilford, Lieut. F., 45–6, 66

Wilkins, Charles, 24, 25, 28, 29, 44, 45, 46, 47

Wilson, H. H., 47, 50, 73

Chronology 1765–1927

1765 East India Company granted
diwan
of Bengal

1774 Warren Hastings first Governor-General

1783 Mackenzie arrives in Madras. Jones arrives in Calcutta

1784 Asiatic Society of Bengal founded

1786 Calcutta Botanical Garden founded

1790 Third Mysore War. Twining’s travels

1793 Roxburgh arrives in Calcutta

1794 Jones dies

1797 Wellesley Governor-General

1798 Fourth Mysore
War

1800 Mysore Survey – Buchanan, Mackenzie and Lambton take the field

1803 Maratha War; acquisition of Delhi and Agra

1806 Tod’s first visit to Udaipur. Salt and Valentia visit Salsette caves

1807 Buchanan begins survey of Bengal and Bihar

1810 Lambton completes trig survey of south. Buchanan at Boddh Gaya

1813 Wallich superintendent of Calcutta Botanical Garden

1816 Colebrooke declares
Himalayas the highest in world

1817 Tod returns to Rajasthan

1819 Prinsep arrives in India. Fell visits Sanchi. Dangerfield discovers Bagh. Franklin discovers Khajuraho

1820 Hodgson posted to Kathmandhu

1822 De Koros in Himalayas. Tod visits Abu and Girnar

1823 Everest succeeds Lambton as Superintendent of GTS

1824 Alexander visits Ajanta

1825 Bishop Heber begins tour of India

1830 Ventura
opens Manikyala
stupa

1833 Masson discovers coins in Begram. Hodgson’s report on Ashoka pillars published

1834 Fergusson tours north India

1835 Macaulay’s Minute. Cunningham opens Dhamekh
stupa

1836 Publication of Fa Hsien. Gandhara sculpture found at Mathura. Ralph/Gresley report
ON
Ajanta. Kittoe finds Orissa rock inscription

1837 Prinsep deciphers pillar inscriptions

1838 Burt visits
Khajuraho. Postans visits Girnar. Prinsep deciphers Kharosthi and is invalided home

1841 Blyth appointed curator of Asiatic Society’s museum

1842 Ellenborough proposes restoration of Somnath gates. Fergusson tours south India

1844 Gill begins copying Ajanta frescoes

1845 Everest starts North-East Himalaya series

1848 Hooker visits India. Cunningham finds Gandhara sculpture in Punjab

1851
Cunningham at Sanchi

1853 Cunningham first visits Mathura

1857 Indian Mutiny or National Uprising

1858 Demise of East India Company, exile of Moghul emperor

1861 Cunningham appointed Archaeological Surveyor

1862 Cunningham at Boddh Gaya

1865 Cunningham at Khajuraho

1867 Publication of Jerdon’s
Mammals of India

1872 Griffiths starts copying Ajanta frescoes

1873 Cunningham discovers Bharhut

1881 Cole restores Sanchi. Keith restores Gwalior

1897 Publication of Ajanta frescoes

1899 Curzon arrives as Viceroy