sa, town, 264.
Bhojpur, 146.
Bhonslas of Nagpur, 103 n., 286, 292, 381.
Bhopal, 238.
_Bhrigu-pata_ sacrifice, 103 n.
_Bhumiawat_, 245-52.
_Bhumka_, 60 n.
Bhurtpore, see Bharatpur.
Bias river, (1) = Hyphasis, in Panjab, 3 n., 165 n.; (2) in Central
Provinces, 204, 290.
Bidar kingdom, 458 n.
_Bigha_, defined, 453 n.
Bihari Mall, Raja, 348 n.
Bijapur, great gun at, 241 n.; fall of, 286 n.; kingdom, 458 n.
Bindachal, 590.
Bindraban (Brindaban), 120.
Bird, Robert Merttins, 575 n.
Birju Baula, singer, 562.
Birsingh Deo, Raja, 134, 164 n., 232, 237.
Black buck, 236 n.; Hole, 582.
Blake, Mr., murder of, 503, 504 n.
Blights, 193-8.
Boigne, General de, 271.
Bombay land System, 576.
Borak, Muhammad's donkey, 541.
Bow, use of, 80.
Brahma, god, 7, 9, 45 n., 376 n., 594.
Brahmans forbid marriage of widows, 26; sacrificed, 46.
Bruce, Captain, (1) brother of (2), 270; (2) James, traveller, 270 n.
Budha Gupta, king, 55 n.
Budhuk dacoits, xxxv.
Buffaloes, sacrificed, 46 n.
Bulaki, Prince, 334.
_Buland Darwaza_, 352 n.
Bullocks, price of, 437.
Bundela Rajputs, 144 n., 185.
Bundelkhand, 94 n., 111, 112, 149, 185, 207, 209 n., 227.
Bundelkhandi dialects, 188 n.
Burial, alive, 570; customs, 218 n.
Burn, Lieut.-Col., 421 n.
Bussorah, see Basrah.
Buxar, battle of, 338 n.

Cairo, mosques at, 494 n.
Calcutta, commercial crisis of 1883 at, 422.
Canals, 158 n.
Cannibalism, 152.
Capital, foreign, 422.
Carpets made at Jhansi, 217, 241.
Caste, 45-51.
Cattle-poisoning, 86 n.
Cawnpore, rise of, 445 n.
Ceded provinces, 434 n.
Census, 194 n.
Central India, 178.
Central Provinces, 57 n., 94 n.
Chambal river, 301, 303.
_Chambeli_, or jasmine, 33.
Champat Rai, Bundela, 190 n.
_Chandamirt_ (_chandan mirt_), 141, 588, 593.
Chand Bardai, poet, 190 n.
Chandel Rajputs, 144 n., 178 n., 185, 189.
Chanderi State, 193, 251, 293.
_Chandni Chauk_, Delhi, 604 n.
Chandra, Raja, 498 n.
_Chaprasi_, or orderly, 74 n.
_Cheonkal_ (_chhonkar_) tree, 174.
Cherry, Mr., murder of, 473.
Chhatarpur State, 192.
Chhatarsal, Raja, 94, 193.
Chick-pea, or gram, 414 n.
Chiefs' colleges, 256 n.
China, land tenure in, 423; Timur's designs on, 533.
Chingiz Khan, 535.
_Chital_, spotted deer, 244 n.
Chitor, towers at, 493 n.
Chitragupta, secretary to Yamaraja, 9.
Chitrakot, 95.
Cholera, beliefs about, 163, 232.
Christians, 11-13, 335, 424.
Chuhari, Christian colony at, 13 n.
_Cicer arietinum_, gram, 150 n.
Cis-Sutlaj States, 476 n.
Cities, growth