History Of India - From The Earliest Times To The End Of The Nineteenth Century - Vol Ii

HISTORY OF INDIA FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS AND COLLEGES H. G. KEENE, C. I. E. HON. M. A.. OXON. Author of The fall oj the Mughal Empire Tkt Turin in India etc. VOL. II. NEW AND REVISED EDITION JOHN GEANT 1906 CONTENTS PAGE CHRONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS - xiii CHAPTER XIII THE DAWN OF EMPIRE Section I Change in the Companys position, Section 2 The Nepalese war and minor disturbances. Section 3 The Pindari war ., , .., ... i CHAPTER XIV BRITISH SUPREMACY ESTABLISHED Section i War with the Peshwa, and extirpation of Pindaris. Sec tion 2 End of the Mahratta war, and pacification of India, Section 3 Founding the Empire 36 CHAPTER XV BURMA AND BHURTPUR Section i The war with Ava, Section 2 Disturbances in . India. Section 3 Domestic Administration, 1823-28 . 1 . 69 vii CONTENTS CHAPTER XVI 1828-1836 LIBERAL BEGINNINGS PAGE Section i Retrenchment in the three Presidencies.-Section 2 Political affairs under Lord W. Bentinck. Section 3 Adminis trative Reform under Lord W. Bentinck . . . .100 CHAPTER XVII THE AFGHANISTAN BLUNDER Section I Shdh Shuja, his friends and foes. The Lucknow succes sion. Section 2 Occupation of Afghanistan. Section 3 Kabul, Sindh, and Gwalior . . . . . . 129 CHAPTER XVIII A SOLDIERS RULE Section i The Punjab, 1839-46. Section 2 Material prosperity and progress of India under Hardinge. Section 3 Retrenchment, Finance, etc. . . . . . . . .169 CHAPTER XIX THE CLOSE OF AN EPOCH Section i The second Sikh war. Section 2 Annexation. Section 3 Internal administration . . . . . - 193 CHAPTER XX THE FALL OF THE COMPANY Section r The Revolt of Fifty-Seven. Section 2 lUe restoration of order. Section 3 The first Viceroyalty . ..221 CONTENTS PAGE APPENDIX I. ...... 361 The Genesis of the First Afghan War. APPENDIX II. . . . . .364 Note on Indian Law. APPENDIX III. 37i INDEX ....... 375 LIST OF MAPS PAGE SKETCH, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE GURKHA WAR, 1814-16 ., 13 THE SEAT OF WAR, 1817-1819, NORTH ... 32 THE SEAT OF WAR, 1817-1819, SOUTH, 45 SIEGE OF BHURTPUR, 1826 85 SCENE OF THE IST AND 2ND PUNJAB CAMPAIGNS, 89 SKETCH MAP OF AFGHANISTAN 133 KABUL, WITH THE CANTONMENTS OF THE BRITISH ARMY IN 1841 155 GENERAL MAP OF INDIA At end CHRONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS A, D. 1813, Expiry of Companys charter debates in Parliament Accession of Lord Moira, 1814, His view of the situation quarrelsome attitude of the Gurkhas of Nipal, War begun disasters. 1815. Kamaun occupied by Colonel Gardner. Successes of Ochterlony. 1816, Submission of Gurkhas. Nawrib of Audh assumes title of King, iSi-Rebellion of Daya Ram and capture of H hras. The Pindari trouble grows intolerable backward policy abandoned. Misconduct of Peshwa attack on Poona Residency defeat and flight of Baji Rao, whose conduct is imitated by the Bhonsla of Nagpur with similar consequences. 1818. Settlement of Mahratta country. Pinddris dispersed, and their leaders disposed of. Surrender of Bdji Rao. 1819, Siege of Asirgarh, end of the war, and consolidation of British power. 1820-22, Measures of fiscal reform administration of justice improved the revenue retrieved. Trouble with Palmer Co. 1823. Lord Amherst assumes office, Aggression of the Burmese and refusal of redress, 1824, War declared inefficient measures. 1825-26. British force advances from Rangoon February 1825, Submis sion of the Court of Ava and end of war. Disturbances in Central India, Alwar, etc. Siege ofBhurtpur. 1827. Durbar at Agra, Governor-General visits Simla. Deaths of Sindia and Sir T. Munro. Elphinstone retires. 1 828. Amherst resigns office. Inquiry into freehold tenures, and titles con firmed. Accession of Bentinck. 1829, Malcolms administration at Bombay, Bentincks policy of retrench ment, and great hostility of Europeans in India. 1830. Reforms begun in land revenue, N.-WP. 1831-32. Troubles on N.-E, frontier. Diplomatic advances, Kol rising suppressed, Mysore sequestrated, Kurg annexed. xiv CHRONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS 1 837. Disputed succession at Lucknow...