ttlement in, 199-200

Bengalees:
unrest among, 12, 114-115, 203
Western education and, 8, 205-7

Bentinck, Lord William, 79, 80, 98

Besant, Mrs., 146, 148, 150, 159, 161

Bhuvaneshwar temples, 38

Bidar, 50

Bijapur, 50, 55

Bikanir, Maharajah of, 141

Bimbisara, King, 26, 27

Bolpur, school at, 254

Bombay, 6
city improvement, 271
cotton mills, 270, 271
labour troubles, 270, 273-4

Bombay Presidency, 69, 71
elections in, 194-6

Bonnerji, Mr., 92, 93

Boycott movements, 4, 113, 294.
See _Swadeshi_

Brahmanas, the, 16, 17-18

Brahmans:
Akbar and, 60
supremacy of, 17-18, 23, 27, 37-8, 41, 44, 45, 84, 190, 219-220,
221-4;
Buddhism and, 27;
Gandhi and, 190
temple, 11

Brahmo-Somaj movement, 80, 95

British, arrival of, in India, 3-4, 5, 62, 66-7, 220

British administration, share of Indians in, 12-13, 97, 101-10, 132-5,
163-4

British Army in India, 275-7

British Empire, India's partnership in, its implications, 164, 306-10

British rule:
co-operation the principle of, 12-13, 66-8, 74, 204-8, 300-301
education and, 79-82, 299-300
evolution of, 66-83. _See_ Crown sovereignty, East India Company,
Parliamentary control
Gandhi and, 191
goal of, 12-13, 76-7, 79, 149, 162-4, 301-2

Bubonic plague appears, 88

Buddha, 25, 26, 27-8;
bones of, discovered, 34

Buddhism, rise and fall of, 27, 29-34, 39-40
Hinduism and, 31, 34-5

Budget deficit, 268-9

Calcutta, 6-12
capital removed from, 128, 129
co-operation revived in, 204-5
labour conditions in, 271
Supreme Court created, 72
Western-educated women in, 8

Calcutta University, 8, 114, 205-6

Canada and Indian immigrants, 211, 282

Canning, Lord, 82-3, 91

Cape Colony, Indians in, 280, 281

Carmichael, Lord, 207

Caste system, the, 23, 43-5, 64, 107, 215-19, 224
Akbar hostile to, 58, 60
Gandhi and, 169, 186-7, 219
reform attempted, 236

Central Provinces:
caste system in, 215-19
"Non-co-operation" campaign in, 214-15, 218-19

Chamber of Princes, the, 1, 2, 158, 239, 241-5

Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. Austen, 144, 150

Chanakya, 29

Chandavarkar, Sir Narain, 171

Chandni Chauk bomb outrage, 129-30

Chandragupta I., 37

Chandragupta II., 37, 38

Chandragupta Maurya, 28-9

Charnock, Job, 10

Chatterjee, Mr. B.C., 206

_Chawls_, 271

Chelmsford, Lord, 143, 144, 145, 172, 301.
_See_ Montagu-Chelmsford reforms

Chinese travellers in India,