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Gaharwar, clan, v2.p330, v2.p332

Gaikwar of Baroda, deposition of the, v8.p430

Gaikwar, v4.p179

Gakkars, a Scythian tribe, v3.p21

Habits and customs of, v3.p21

Galen, quotation from, on the burning of the dead, v9.pp186–187

Galgala, a camp of Aurangzib, v4.p167

Galleys and Galleons, v6.p52, v6.pp144–145, v6.pp147–148

Gama, Vasco da, see Da Gama

Gambling match of Yudhisthira, v1.p107

Gampu, v6.p29

Gandamak, treaty of, between England and Afghanistan, v8.p440

Gandaria = Gandhara

Gandaris, according to some writers, the country of Sopeithes, v9.p20

Gandhara country, defined, v2.p23

Hun conquest of, v2.p286

Sculptures of, v2.p238

Gandhara, city on the Indus, v3.p23

Mahmud victorious at, v3.p24

Gandharva marriage, v1.p238

Gandharvi, a river having its source in the sacred pond Vishnupada, v9.p191

Gangaridai nation, v2.p37

Gangavadi = Mysore, v2.p390

Ganges, river, v1.p97, v1.p126, v2.p23, v2.p34, v2.p106, v2.p110, v2.p249, v2.p251, v2.p254, v2.p301, v3.p19

Account of the, by Artemidoros, v9.pp65–66

Battle near the, v4.p236, v4.p236

Battle of the, puts an end to Moghul empire for a time, v3.p237

Battle of the, won without a gun being fired, v3.p237

Description of the, by Krateros, v9.p28

Discussion concerning the source of the, v9.pp292–293

Exploration of shores of, v1.p97

Largest river of India, v9.p5

Plains of the, v4.p161

Sacred river of the Hindus, v5.p69

Sanctity of the, v9.p293

Trade upon the, v4.p143

United with the Jumna, v4.p222, v4.p233

Valley of, v4.p2, v4.p5

Valley of, reached by the Hindus, v1.p82

Gangeyadeva, King of Chedi, v2.p336

Ganjam = Kongoda, v2.p305

Gardens, at New Delhi, v4.p131

Gardi, Ibrahim Khan, an expert cannoneer, v4.p241, v4.p246, v4.p251, v4.p263, v4.p270

Garie, Jean, a Portuguese soldier of fortune in the service of Bengal, v9.p292

Garmanes (Sarmanes), a Buddhist caste of philosophers, according to Megasthenes, v9.pp50–52

Garrisons (Four) in Kashgaria, v2.p323

Gaunt, John of, family connection with Spain and Portugal, v6.pp40–42

Gaur, a city in Bengal, identified with ancient Lakhnauti, v3.p69, v3.p173

Capital of Bengal, conquered by Sher Khan, v3.p233

Gautama, see also Buddha

Buddha, v1.p3

Founder of the Nyaya philosophy, v1.p262

Haridrumata, a Vedic teacher, v1.pp139–141

Gawilgarh, fort of, captured by General Arthur Wellesley, v8.p327

Gaya, sanctity of, v2.p26

Gayatri, the, v1.p70

Gedrosia (Mekran), Alexander ambitious of conducting his army through, v9.p4

Gedrosia = Mukran, v2.p93

Alexander’s march through, v2.p98

Gedrosioi, people, v2.p96

Gems found in India, v9.p153

Genoa

Eastern trade-routes, v6.p12, v6.pp16–20, v6.p31, v6.p33, v6.p34, v6.p37, v6.p49

Pilots and navigators of, v6.p44, v6.p49, v6.pp50–51, v6.p56

Rise of, as a trade centre, v8.p4

Struggle of, with the Moors, v6.p32

Genus

In Buddhism, v1.p266

In Vaisesika philosophy, v1.p266

Geometry, v1.p192, v1.p194

George II, makes a treaty of alliance with Frederick of Prussia, v8.p136

Germanic States, alliance of, in 1691, v8.p53

Germany, the Reformation in, v6.p194

Gharkol, a place, v4.p198

Ghassan ibn Abbad sent to subdue Bashar ibn Daud, v5.p21

Ghats, v4.p161, v4.p162, v4.p163, v4.p164, v4.p167

Ghats, Eastern and Western, v6.pp74–75

Ghazi (“ victor “), an appellation of Mahmud, v3.p22

Ghazi Malik, governor of the Panjab, v3.p119

Ghazi Taghlak. See Taghlak.

Ghazi-ad-din, vizir of Alamgir II, v4.p183, v4.p184, v4.p229

Ghazipur acquired by the English, v8.p266

Ghazipur, district and town in the Northwest Provinces

Taken by Humayun, v3.p211

Garrisoned by Humayun, v3.p211

Ghaznavids, decline of, v5.p81, v5.p82

Ghaznavids, uncertainty of Indian possessions of, v2.pp37–38

Allied with the Seljuks, v3.p48

Dynastic list of the, v2.pp251–252

Ghazni, city of Afghanistan, fortress of, v3.p18

Conquered by Ghiyas-ad-din, v5.p78

Decline of power of house of, v5.p77

Mahmud’s death at, v3.p29

Mahmud’s treasure displayed at, v3.p22

The stronghold of the Moslem Turks in tenth century, v5.p34

Ghiyas-ad-din Auz Khalji submits to Shams-ad-din Altamish, v5.p98

Ghiyas-ad-din ibn Sam, chief of Ghor, v3.p53

Recovers Ghazni from the mob of Ghuzz, v3.p64

Ghiyas-ad-din Mahmud Mohammad Sam, nephew of Mu’izz-ad-din, makes Kutb-ad-din sultan, v5.pp90–91

Ghiyas-ad-din, Sultan, of the house of Ghor, v5.p77

Establishes his authority over the whole of Garmsir, v5.p78

Attacks and conquers Peshawar, v5.p81

Death of, v5.p85

Ghor, district of Persia, v3.p51

Absorbs Kanauj and Benares, v3.p58

Dynastic list of, v3.p252

Ghor, rise of Afghan house of, v5.p77

Ghori Sultans of Egypt, decline of dynasty of, v6.p292

Ghorkhatri, famous place of worship among Hindu ascetics, v5.p315

Ghuzz Turks, practice of the, with regard to a drowned person, v9.p187

Ghuzz, a Turkish clan, v3.p36

Ghuzz, leaders of the, rule Ghazni twelve years, v5.p78

Gibraltar Bay, Spanish fleet totally destroyed in, in 1607, v7.p64

Gibraltar, Straits of, Spanish command of, v6.p209, v6.p221

Ginger

One of the spices of the Malabar coast as distinguished from the more costly spices of the Eastern Archipelago, v6.p105

Albuquerque secures the trade in, on the Malabar coast, v6.p126

Portuguese trade in, v6.p151

Gioghi (Yogis), attendants of the temple of Mahadeva, v9.pp300–301

Girnar, lake and inscriptions at, v2.p122

Gladiatorial contests, v2.p111

Glausai (Glaukanikoi), nation, v2.p68

Gnostic heresy and Buddhism, v2.p170, v2.p236

Goa

Ample military supplies found by Albuquerque in, v9.p230

Anchorage and harbour of, v6.p134

Ancient, v6.p135

Capital of the Portuguese, v9.p322

Captain-General of, commander-in-chief of all the Portuguese forces in the East Indies, v9.p325

Captured by Albuquerque and made capital of Portuguese India (1510), v6.pp105–108, v6.p116, v6.pp131–135, v6.p140, v9.pp228–233

Churches at, v9.pp322–323

Convents at, v9.p323, v9.pp324–325

Corruption of Portuguese in, v6.p166, v6.p212

Decline of, v9.pp325–326

Description of, by William Francklin, v9.pp322–327

European articles in, v6.p264

Fitch visits (1583–1584), v6.p212

Fort of, headquarters of the Christians, v6.p292, v6.p293

Inquisition at, v6.p56

Linschoten at, v6.p210

Native troops and trade of, v6.pp141–143, v6.p145, v6.pp153–154, v6.p158

Occupied by the Portuguese, v4.p66, v4.p143

Portuguese garrison removed to, v8.p21

Threatened by the Dutch in 1603, v7.p63

Viceroy of, and English president at Surat enter into negotiations in 1634, v7.p209

Visited by Pietro della Valle, v4.p79

Wealth and luxury of, v6.pp135–139

Western limit of the Marathas, v4.p125

Godavari

Battle at the, v4.p262

River of ancient India, v1.p120, v2.p133, v2.p141, v2.p380, v3.p137

Godeheu succeeds Dupleix at Pondicherri, v8.p123

Gods of the Rig-Veda still worshipped in Brahmanic and Epic times, v1.p169

Goganda, a Rajput stronghold, v4.p24

Gogra, a river in the Northwest Provinces, v3.p218

Gohad, a town in Gwalior in Central India, v4.p266

Gold

Mines of, in Africa, v6.p153

Frobisher’s supposed discovery of, v6.p184, v6.p186

Non-exportation of, v6.p232

Gold-dust dug up by ants in India, v9.p36

Golden Phirmaund of 1632, received by the English, v7.p226

Gold-mines in India, v9.p23, v9.p27

Golkonda

Capital of the Kutb Shah dynasty, v3.p192

Destroyed by Aurangzib, v8.p44, v8.p54

King proposes the formation of a Joint Stock with the English, v7.pp230–231

Kings of, v4.p106, v4.pp109–110, v4.p153, v4.p168

Siege and fall of, v4.pp169–163

Gombroon

Settlement at, given to the English, v7.p56

Factories in, turned over to the Joint Stock, v7.p287

Gomez, Diogo, quoted, v6.p47

Gondal Bar = Gandaris, v2.p68

Gondophares, Indo-Parthian king, v2.p207

Gopala, founded Pala dynasty, v2.p344

Gorgos, a mining expert of Alexander, v9.p23

Gosala, founder of sect of Ajivakas, v1.p328

Gothland, early trade of, v6.p18

Government administration divided into four departments by Humayun, v5.pp273–274

Government, v1.p9

Government, divergent concepts of, in Orient and Occident, v2.pp64–66

Under Babar, v2.pp219–220

Government, Hindu, v9.pp149–150

Govind Rai of Delhi, death of, v5.p85

Govind, Guru (Pandit), head of the Sikhs, v4.p177, v4.p234, v4.p236

Govinda III, Rashtrakuta king, v2.p356

Grain, names of, in Rig-Veda, v1.p21

Grammar, science of, in India, v1.p193

Grammar, the first Hindu science, v9.p136

Gravesend, Hore sails from, v6.p177

Frobisher sails from, v6.p183

Great Moghul, a term applied to Jahangir and his successors, v4.pp61–87, v4.p128, v4.p129, v4.p142, v4.p166, v4.p163, v4.p164, v4.p173, v4.p174

Greco-Bactrian legions in India, v3.p16

Greco-Roman influence on India, v2.p207

Greece, Phoenician alphabet carried to, v6.p4

Asiatic trade of, v6.p29

Greek influence on India, v2.p126, v2.p212

Greek knowledge of India, v1.pp197–198, v1.pp204–207

Greeks buried or burned their dead in ancient times, v9.p186

Greenwich, v6.p191

Greville, Fulke (1600), v6.p228

Grihya Sutras, regulations concerning domestic rites, v1.p190

Value of, for knowledge of Hindu life, v1.p191, v1.p244

Guadalete, river of Spain, battle of, in 710, v3.p6

Guinea, Portuguese trade and proselytism in, v6.p55, v6.p57, v6.p59, v6.pp204–205

English trade with, v6.p204

Gujarat

(1) a district in the Panjab, v2.p55

(2) Western Kumarapala, king of, v2.p161

Gujarat, a province of India

Becomes a Moslem province in the thirteenth century, v3.p183

Comes into possession of the Kings of Delhi, v6.p287

Conquered by Akbar, v4.p3, v4.p7, v4.p23, v4.p26, v4.p48

Conquest of, v7.pp193–194

Corruption of the local authorities of, v4.p67

District of western India, conquered by Junaid ibn Abd-ar-Rahman al-Marri, v5.p17

English agency at, v7.p201

Famine in, in 1630, v7.p206

Fief of, granted to Zafar Khan in 1391, v3.p183

Fields of, yield two harvests a year, v7.p201

Fleet of, joins the Mamluk admiral

Governed by Murad Bakhsh, v4.p111

Governor of, executed by Kutb-ad-din Mubarak Shah, v3.p125

Granted to Sikandar Khan by Firoz Shah, v3.p154

Hinduized, v1.p203

History of, to its absorption in the Moghul empire, v2.pp182–185

Husain against the Portuguese, v3.p184

In the possession of Humayun, v3.p230

King of, gives Din to Albuquerque, v3.p186

Occasional disputes of, with the Bahmanid kings of the Deccan, v3.p187

Part of Moghul empire in 1672, v3.p185

Pays tribute to the Marathas, v4.p179

Portuguese treaties with, and control of, v6.p131, v6.p132

Reverts to Bahadur Shah, v3.p231

Severe drought in, v5.p321

Sikh army overthrown at, v8.p417

Subject to Delhi, v3.p143

Successfully invaded by Mahmud of Ghazni, v3.p27

Under the power of Ghor, v3.p71

Unsafe place for travel, v4.p96

Gujarat, district of Kashmir, Gujars settled in by Akbar, v5.p303

Jahangir encamps in, v5.p303

Gujarati fleet defeated off Diu by the Portuguese, v3.p186

Gulalbar, designation of Aurangzib’s quarters at Galgala, v4.p167

Gumti, a river of Oudh, v3.p176

Gun-carriages chained together by Babar to protect his camp, v3.p191

Gunpowder, use of, in warfare, v4.p21, v4.pp204–206, v4.p209, v4.p211

Guns, see Matchlocks

Gunsmiths, v4.p132

Gupta empire, history and chronology of, v2.p247

Guptas, a dynasty, v3.p23

Gurkhas (Gurkhalis), war of, with the English, v8.pp374–377

Gurrea, sub-caste of the Sudras, v9.p245

Guru Govind, head of the Sikhs, v4.p177

Gwalior, a city

Abandoned by the opponents of Raziya, v5.p107

Comes under the sway of Azim Humayun Sirwan, v5.p260

Conquered by Mahmud of Ghazni, v3.p27

Conquered by Shams-ad-din Altamish after a siege of eleven months, v5.p100

Fall of, v4.p2

Fortress of, v4.p6, v4.p196

Fortress of, taken by Captain Popham, v8.p254

Hindu chiefs independent at, v3.p170

In the Maratha wars, v4.pp242–276

Lords of, rally to Rana Sanga’s standard, v3.p211

Mohammad Ghori victorious in, v3.p59

Shams-ad-din Altamish amir of, v5.p95

Subdued by Babar, v3.p196

Gymnetai, a division of the Pramnai, v9.pp64–65

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