ndia Company, 2, 14;
position of the East India Company, 76;
Nawab of Bengal deposed by the council, 77;
revolt and reconquest of Bengal, 77;
Mir Kasim made Nawab of Bengal, 77;
battle of Baxar, 78;
heavy debts of the East India Company, 78-79, 81;
revolt in Mysore, 80;
famine in Bengal, 81;
North's regulating act, 121, 122;
Warren Hastings appointed governor-general, 122;
Clive virtually acquitted, 122;
act authorising the East India Company to export its surplus stock of
tea to America, 126;
Pondicherry taken, 196;
Haidar makes war on the English, 196;
Maratha war, 236-238;
Tipu Sahib succeeds Haidar Ali, 238;
peace made, 238;
charter of the East India Company renewed, 247;
Hastings recalled, 247;
work of Hastings, 248, 249;
Dundas's India bill, 249;
Fox's India bills, 249-251;
Pitt's India bill, 252, 286;
Warren Hastings resigns office, 302;
Cornwallis appointed governor-general, 305;
Tipu attacks the Raja of Travancore, 305;
Pitt's declaratory act, 306;
revival of French influence, 419;
fall of Seringapatam and death of Tipu, 420;
Lord Wellesley in, 443.
Indians, North American, invade colonies, 57-58;
employment of, in war, 140, 144, 176-178, 186;
border warfare with, 194.
Industrial revolution, 269-273, 277-279.
Ireland, condition of, in 1760, 91-94;
absentee tax proposed, 200;
linen manufacture, 201;
restrictions on trade, 201;
volunteers, 202;
trade opened, 202;
legislative independence conceded, 232, 233;
agitation for parliamentary reform, 288, 289;
Pitt's trade propositions, 289, 291;
question of the regency, 315;
political condition in 1795, 367;
United Irishmen Society founded, 367;
catholics enfranchised, 368;
Fitzwilliam, lord-lieutenant, 369;
recalled, 370;
Camden, lord-lieutenant, 370;
complete relief rejected, 370;
Maynooth college founded, 385;
religious riots, 385;
Orange Society founded, 385;
attempted French invasion, 386;
intended invasion by Dutch fleet, 397-398;
condition of, in 1798, 404, 405;
conspiracy in Ulster, 405-407;
methods of enforcing disarmament, 407-408;
rebellions in Kildare and Carlow, 408;
in Wexford, 409;
defeat of rebels at Arklow, 411;
surrender of Wexford, 412;
Humbert's invasion, 413;
other attempts on, 414;
union proposed, 445, 446;
catholic support, 446, 447;
extent of corruption, 448, 449;
act of uni
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