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
Buddhist, v9.p149
Future life, hymn on, v1.pp59–60
This collection transcribed by Chris Gage