A, English tried to possess the Fort of, 42:
Clive sent to join Major Lawrence at, 50.
DHAKA in rebellion against Mir Jafar, 115.
DIAMOND HARBOUR, Dutch vessels at, 126.
DISRAELI, Isaac son of, mentioned, 10:
life of an attorney as distasteful to him as to Robert Clive, 10.
DOST ALI, appointed to succeed Saadat-ulla Khan as Nawab of the
Karnatik, 23:
sent his son to capture Trichinopoli, where he was slain, 25:
his son proclaimed Nawab, 25.
DRAKE, Mr., Governor at Calcutta, 78:
fled to the Hugli, 78.
DRAYTON, Market, _see_ Market Drayton.
DULAB RAM, _see_ Raja Dulab Ram.
DUMAS, M. Benoit, Governor-General of French possessions in India,
21:
at Pondicherry, 25.
DUPLEIX, M., succeeded Dumas as Governor-General of French
possessions, 21, 32, 60, 194:
received instructions from the Directors on account of the
impending war with England, 32:
ordered to join M. de la Bourdonnais, 33:
urged to arrange with the Government of Madras that the two
settlements should preserve neutrality, but not granted, 33:
he appealed to Anwar-ud-din, 33:
hostility stopped in the Karnatik, 34:
took Madras, 36:
sole director of French interests, 36:
sent a small force under Paradis to relieve Madras, 37:
slaughter at St. Thome, 37:
tried to expel the English from all their settlements, 38:
siege of Pondicherry, 39:
directed the defence, 39:
attempted to take Trichinopoli, 60:
sent Law in command of troops, 60: unsuccessful, 61:
urged Raja Sahib to proceed to reconquer Arcot, and, if possible,
attack Madras, 62:
attacked Punamallu, 62:
marched to Kanchipuram and Vendalur, 62:
Raja Sahib's army met by Clive at Kaveripak, 64:
Clive surrounded by the French, 65:
defeated by Clive, 66:
sent d'Auteuil to replace Law, 68.
DUTCH, monopoly of trade with the Moluccas, 124:
various conquests in the East, 124:
Dutch-Indian Company, 124:
settlement at Chinsurah, 124:
negotiations with Mir Jafar, 125:
Dutch fleet approaching Hugli, 126:
Clive demanded explanation from them, 126:
invasion of the, 126-30:
complete defeat of, 131.
_Early Records of British India_, by Talboys Wheeler, quoted, 177 and
_n_.
EAST INDIA COMPANY, Clive, writer in the service of, 9, 10, 11:
Bihar saltpetre manufacture farmed by, 118:
Directors of, 164:
Diwan of the three Provinces, 172.
EATON, Dr., private school at Lostocke, to which Cl
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