–F–

Factories (= trading-posts under a factor, or agent) of the Dutch and the English in India, v4.p93, v4.p94, v4.p144, v4.p155

Fa-hien

First Chinese pilgrim, v2.p14, v2.p143

Described Pataliputra and Magadha, v2.p266

Fairs, religious, v4.p121

Faizi, Illahbad, author of a chronicle of Akbar’s reign, v4.p193

Faizi

Death of, in 1695, v4.p49

Persian mystic poet at Akbar’s court, v4.p33, v4.p36, v4.p44, v4.p46, v4.p66

Verses of, v4.p42

Fakhr-ad-din Abd-al-Aziz of Kufa, chief judge and governor of Naishapur, v5.p88

Fakhr-ad-din, brother of Malik Kochi, flees from Raziya, but is captured and later killed, v5.p106

Fakhr-ad-din, uncle of Mu’izz-ad-din (later Mohammad Ghori), v5.p78

Fakirs, v4.p122

See also Ascetics

False evidence, v1.p222

Famagusta in Cyprus, Venetian trade emporium (1475), v6.p33

Taken by the Turks (1570–1571), v6.p33

Famine

Follows in the wake of Timor’s army, v2.pp169–170

In empire of Mohammad Taghlak, v3.p136

Prevalent in camp of Bahadur Shah’s army, v3.p230

Unknown in India, v1.p217

Farabi, Al-, Arabic philosopher, v3.p31

Farghana, a province of Persia, v3.p203

Faria, Pedro de, letter of, quoted, v6.p143

Farid Bokhari, Shaikh, an official under Akbar, v4.p197, v4.p199, v4.p201, v4.pp206–212

Farmaliun, a friar of Goa, visits court of Akbar, v6.p269

Farrukhabad, a district and town in the Northwest Provinces, v4.p229, v4.p230

Farrukhi, Persian poet, v3.p32

Farrukhsiyar, a Moghul ruler, v4.p178

Fars, province of Persia, Mohammad ibn Kasim governor of, v5.p7

Faruki, name of a Hindu tribe, v4.p199

Fath Khan, son of Firoz Shah, v3.p151

Death of, in 1374, v3.p157

Fathabad, city of the Panjab

Found deserted when reached by Timur, v3.p165

Founded by Firoz Shah, v3.p151

Father of Nasrat Shah, rival emperor of Delhi, v3.p161

Fathpur, Fathpur-Sikri, the royal city of Akbar

Centre for land-survey, v4.p31

Description of, v4.pp35–39

Founded in 1574, v4.p34, v4.p49

Visited by Akbar, v4.p42

Fathpur, palace-city of Akbar, v3.p213

Fazl ibn Mahan subdues Sindan, v5.p23

Fazl-allah Balkhi, viceroy and deputy of Malin Khan, does homage to Timur, v5.p212

Female morals supervised by Asoka, v2.p161

Fenton, Captain Edward

Expedition of, toward India by the southern routes, v6.pp188–189

Reaches Brazil, buccaneers, and returns to England (1582–1583), v6.pp189–190

Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain

Expel the Jews and Moors, v6.pp32–33

Employ Columbus to explore for Spain, v6.p63, v6.p65, v6.p174

Policy and negotiations of, with England, v6.p174

Employ Sebastian Cabot as a cartographer, v6.p178

Fergusson, writes of the “Turkish Sultana’s House”, v4.p36

Fernando of Portugal, “the Constant Prince”, v6.p42

Festival processions, order of march of, v9.pp63–64

Festival, celebrated at Thanesar, v4.p11, v4.p12

Festivals, religious, v4.p121

Firando, Japan, Dutch establish a factory at, v7.p22

Firdausi, Persian epic poet, v3.p32

His panegyric and satire on Mahmud of Ghazni, v2.pp245–248

Fire

Hindu ordeal by, v9.p145

Names of, v1.p170

Ordeal of, criminals tried by, v1.pp155–156

Sacred, kept burning in every household, v1.p62, v1.p150

Sacrificial, v1.p76

Various offerings to, v1.p6

Firishta, Arabic historian, v3.p132, v3.p152

Firoz Shah I, son of Shams-ad-din Altamish

Death of, after a nominal reign of seven months, v3.p77, v5.p103

Unsuccessful as a ruler, v2.pp76–77

Firoz Shah III

A devout Mohammedan, v3.p167

A successful gardener, v3.p163

Adored by his subjects, v3.p166, v3.p158

Appoints Prince Mohammad to administer his realms, in 1387, v3.p168

Appoints Taghlak Shah II to administer his realm, v3.p168

Character of, v2.pp166–158

Characteristics of, v2.pp146–147

Cousin and successor of Mohammad Taghlak, v3.p145

Daulat with the title “King of the East”, v3.p153

Death of, in 1388, v3.p168

Extract from the memoirs of, v3.p168

First campaign of, against Bengal in 1353, v3.p147

Founds town of Fathabad, v3.p151

Government of, v2.pp162–153

Grants Bihar to Bir Afghan, v3.p154

Grants Gujarat to Sikandar Khan, v3.p164

Grants Karra and Dalamau to Mardan

His army lose their way while elephant-hunting, v3.p148

Influence of death of, on kingdom of Delhi, v2.pp169–161

Mother of, a Rajpnt princess, v3.p146, v3.p150

Peace and plenty restored during the reign of, v2.pp160–151

Public works and buildings of, v3.p162

Reign of, extends over thirty-seven years, v3.p145

Reparation made by, to victims of his uncle, v3.p146

Restores taxes as directed by laws of the Koran, v3.p160

Revenue derived from gardens of, v3.p153

Second campaign of, against Bengal in 1359–60, v3.p147

Unsuccessful expedition of, against Thatta, v3.p148

Victorious at Nagarkot, v3.p149

Victorious over Samma Jam in the second expedition against him, v3.p149

Firoz Shah

Authority of, confirmed by the caliph, v5.pp172–173

Endows public shelters, v5.pp168–169

Piety and benevolence of, v5.pp170–171

Restores lands confiscated by former sultans, v5.pp169–170

Succeeds Mohammad Taghlak and reigns forty years, v5.p162

Translation of a memoir of, v5.pp163–173

Firoz, Bahmanid Sultan, defeats the raja of Vijayanagar, v2.pp189–190

Invades the Carnatic, v2.pp190–191

Firoz, Persian king, v2.p285

Firozabad

Capital of the rival Moghul emperor Nasrat Shah, v3.p161

City of Oudh, new name of Panduah, v3.p151, v3.p173

Suburb of Delhi, founded by Firoz Shah, v3.p151

Firoz-koh, Mohammad Ghori remains for a year at, v5.p78

Firoz-kuh, Afghan fortress, v3.p61, v3.p62, v3.p55

Firozshah, battle of, v8.p410, v8.p413

Fitch, Ralph

English trader in India (1583), v6.p135

Influence of travels of, on English Eastern enterprise, v6.p210, v6.p212

Five Pandava princes, v1.pp100–101

Flanders

Commerce of, v6.pp206–208

Map makers and gravers of, in the sixteenth century, v6.pp200–201

Position of, in the fourteenth century, v6.p40

Flemish Company receives ample powers giving it a national basis, v7.p86

Fleury, ministry of, v8.p91

Flood, Hindu tradition of, v1.pp166–167

Florida, French colonies in, and their destruction by the Spaniards, v6.p195

Floris, Peter, builds half-fortified factory at Pettapoli in 1614, v7.p221

Food

Animal, v1.p22, v4.p44, v4.p122

Hindu, v9.p152

In Brahmanic period, v1.pp147–148

Vegetable, v1.p21

Forbisher, Scotch steward and interpreter at Dutch factory of Amboyna, v7.p118

Foreigners explained as castes, v1.p232

Foreigners, Maurya officials in charge of, v2.p117

Forest hermits in the Brahmanic period, v1.p144

Forgeries of copper tankas, v3.p141

Fort St. David, futile expedition of the French against, v8.p106

Fort St. George

Embrasured factory, built by Francis Day, v7.p228

In the possession of the English, v8.p35

Fort, of Asir, v4.p49, v4.pp193–214

Fortifications, Portuguese policy of, in the East, v6.p87, v6.pp114–115

Forts

Dutch, in the East, v6.p219, v6.p220

Portuguese, at Calicut, v6.p115

Portuguese, at Cannanore, v6.p88, v6.p115

Portuguese, at Cochin, v6.p90, v6.p92, v6.p115

Portuguese, at Diu, v6.p132, v6.p134, v6.p147

Portuguese, at Malacca, v6.p106, v6.p115, v6.pp126–127

Portuguese, at Ormuz, v6.p104, v6.p115, v6.pp123–124

Portuguese, at Socotra, v6.p99

Forty, the, a corps of Turkish Mamluks, v3.p79

Foster, Mr. W., editor of Roe’s Journal, v4.pp68–69

Founders’ Hall, v6.p216, v6.p220, v6.p229

Founders’ Hall, London merchants meet in, to establish an East India Company, v7.p43

Fourfold wisdom, Buddhist, v1.pp304–306

Fox, East India Bill of, v8.p274, v8.p275, v8.pp277–279

Foxe’s “Book of Martyrs”, v6.p255

France

Exploring expeditions of, v6.p168, v6.p194

Policy of, under Richelieu, v8.p80

Position of, in the fourteenth century, v6.p40

Reasons for the failure of, in India, v8.p126, v8.pp150–151

Relations of, with England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, v6.pp177–178, v6.p191, v6.p194

Strength of navy of, in 1755, v8.p135

Struggle of, with the Pope, v6.p194

Treaty of, with Spain (1598), v6.p225

Wars of, in Europe, from 1690 to 1713, v8.p53

Francis I of France ridicules the Papal demarcation line, v6.p194

Franciscan friars

At Soldaia (1280), v6.pp17–18

In Socotra (1507), v6.p100

Sent to India from Portugal (1500), v6.p86, v6.pp116–117

Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese viceroy, defeats the Egyptian and Gujarati fleets off Diu, v3.p185

Francklin, William, descriptive notes on India, from the diary of, v9.pp314–331

Free trade an established fact between English and Portuguese in India, v7.p209

Freitas, Jordao de, obtains Amboyna as a gift, v6.p163

French army in India, v4.p184

French

Active in North America, v8.p94

Alliance of, with the Dutch, against England in 1666, v8.p37, v8.p38

Allied with Muzaffar Jang and Chanda Sahib, v8.p118

Army, strength of, in India, in 1754, v8.p131

Colonization, history of, v8.pp79–80, v8.pp83–102

Company in India dissolved in 1770, v8.p147

Embassy to Persia, v8.p352

English on the Indian coast in 1781, v8.pp153–155

Expelled from Northern Sirkars, v8.p142

Final expedition of the, against the

Position at the peace of 1763, v8.pp147–148

Take possession of St. Thomé, near Madras, v8.p37

Under De la Haye sail to Ceylon and occupy the harbour of Trincomali, v8.p37

French-Spanish treaty of 1598, v8.pp16–17

Friedland, battle of, v8.p350

Frobisher, Martin, North-western expeditions and supposed gold discovery of (1576–1578), v6.pp182–188, v6.p234

Fryer, agent of the East India Company, v4.p66

Fuggers, merchants of Augsburg, v6.p34, v6.p217

Funeral ceremonies

Hindu, v9.p148, v9.p149

Buddhist, v9.p149

Future life, hymn on, v1.pp59–60

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