BANKIPUR, military cantonment of Patna, 185:
Sir R. Barker commandant at, 185:
ringleaders arrested at, 186.

BAPTA, Clive encamped at, 111.

BARDWAN, revenue of, granted money to Clive, 117.

BARH, Clive and Mir Jafar marched to, 118.

BARKER, Sir R., commandant at Bankipur, 185:
arrested ringleaders at Bankipur, 186.

BARNETT, Commodore, in command of squadron, 33:
died, 34.

BATH, Clive went to take the waters at, 209.

BATTA, 179:
Mir Jafar's double batta, 179:
discontinued, 180, 181:
double batta at Allahabad, 181:
single batta, 182.

BAYLEY, Mr., Robert Clive's uncle at Manchester, 9.

BEECHER, Mr., Member of Select Committee, 191.

BENARES, occupied by the English, 157:
interview between Clive, General Carnac, and Nawab-Wazir of Oudh
at, 173:
Zamindar of, 175.

BENGAL, Clive in, 85:
state of affairs in, 132:
Clive's achievements in, 133-6:
position of Bengal, 173.

BHAGIRATHI, 92.

BIDERRA, Dutch defeated by Forde and Knox at, 131.

BIHAR, Ali Vardi Khan, Governor of, 85:
Governor of, rebelled against Mir Jafar, 115:
Clive and Mir Jafar at, 117:
seat of saltpetre manufacture, 117:
Mir Jafar yields it to East India Company, 118.

BIJAPUR, king of, sold Puducheri to the French in 1672, named
afterwards Pondicherry, 20:
Muzaffar Jang, Governor of, 44.

BISNAGAR, Raja of, granted a small portion of land, called
Chennapatanam, to the English, 18, 19.

BLACK HOLE of Calcutta, 78, 79, 85, 132.

BLOCHMANN'S _Ain-i-Akbari_, quoted, 118_n_.

BOSCAWEN, Admiral, in command of fleet, 39:
laid siege to Pondicherry, 39:
sailed for England, 40.

BOURDONNAIS, M. de la, sent in command of a squadron, 33:
landed at Madras, 35, 194:
captured Madras, 35:
treaty, 35.

_Britannia_, ship on board which Clive returned to England, 191.

BROOME'S _History of the Bengal Army_, 90_n_., 95_n_., 96_n_.,
109_n_.

BURGOYNE, General, 201 and _n_.:
led attacks on Clive, 201, 203-9.

BURSLEM'S, Mr., school at Market Drayton, to which Clive went when he
was eleven, 10.

BUSSY-CASTELNAU, captured Gingi for the French, 47:
avenged the death of Muzaffar Jang, and caused Salabat Jang to be
proclaimed successor, 48:
retained at Dupleix's court, 60:
overtures with Siraj-ud-daula at Haidarabad, 87.

BUTE, Lord, Secretary of State, 143:
Prime Minister, 143:
Clive's suggestions to, 144:
indignant at Clive's opposition, 145.