–I–

Ibadat-Khanah (“Hall of Worship”), completed by Akbar in 1575 A.D., v5.pp277–278

Ibadat-Khanah, see Divan-i-Khas

Iberia, Sesostris leads an army from, v9.p4

Ibn Batuta, v3.p129

Account of Mohammad Taghlak’s cruelty by, v3.p133

Arabian traveller, describes suttee, v9.pp78–80

Sent to China as ambassador of Mohammad Taghlak, v3.p134

Ibn Harri al-Bahali appointed to frontiers of India, v5.p5

Ibn Haukal, Arab geographer, account of India by, v5.pp28–32

Ibn Haukal, Arab traveller in India, v3.p13

Ibrahim Adil Shah, ruler of the Konkan, v4.p218

Ibrahim Khan, author of a chronicle history of the Marathas, v4.p216

Ibrahim Lodi, Sultan of Delhi

Army of, advances on Babar on the

Army of, completely routed by Babar on April 21, 1526, v2.pp207–208

Battle of, with Babar, v2.pp205–208

Causes leading to revolts in reign of, v3.p197

Confusion in army of, when it notes

Death of, at battle of April 21, 1526, v3.p207

Execution by, of some of his leading chiefs, v3.p197

morning of April 21, 1626, v2.pp206–207

Night attack upon, by Babar, v3.p206

preparations made by Babar, v3.p207

Size of army of, in 1526, v3.p206

Ibrahim Shah

A zealous Moslem, v3.p178

Attacked by Sayyids, v3.p178

Battle of, with Sayyids, in 1427, v3.p178

Invades Delhi in 1413, v2.pp177–178

Repels advances of Sultan Mahmud, v3.p177

Third ruler of the Sharki dynasty, v3.p177

Ibrahim Sur seizes Delhi and Agra, v3.p241

Ibrahim, king of Ghazni, v3.p48

Ibrahim, son of Firoz Shah, brief reign of, at Delhi, v2.pp98–99

Ibrahim, Sultan

Advance-guard of, defeated by Babar’s troops, v5.pp250–251

Advance-guard of, encamps on road toward Babar’s camp, v5.p250

Army of, marches against Babar, v5.p255

Defeat of, by Ala-ad-din Khan, v5.pp237–243

Defeated by Babar, v5.p258

Head of, brought as trophy to Babar, v5.p258

Loss in army of, v5.p258

Iceland (Ultima Thule), voyage of Columbus to, v6.p173

Idanthyrsos, a king of the Scythians, overran Asia, v9.pp4–5

Idar annexed to territory of Zafar Khan, v3.p183

Idols in temple at Maharat-al-Hind, description of, v5.p68

Idols, destroyed by Moslems, v4.p145

Idols, Hindu

Animal sacrifice offered to, v9.p181

Causes leading to the construction of, v9.pp175–177

Erected only for the uneducated classes, v9.p185

Honored by Hindus for the sake of their makers, v9.p182

In the temple of Mahadeva, v9.pp300–301

Materials preferred for, v9.p182

Measures for constructing, v9.p181

Reward or punishment meted out to the artist of, according to his work, v9.pp181–182

Idols, unknown in the Vedic period, v1.p5, v1.p52

Ienea, a sub-caste of the Sudras, v9.p245

Ijari, a city of Northern India, conquered by Balban, v3.p82

Ikbal Khan

Death of, v3.p170

Drives Nasrat Shah out of Delhi, v3.p170

Holds Delhi for a time, v3.p170

Leads Indian army against Timur in 1398, v3.p166

Ikdala, fortress of India

Renamed Azadpur by Firoz Shah, v3.p151

Spared by Firoz Shah, v3.p147

Ikhtiyar-ad-din Itigin

Appointed lord chamberlain by Raziya, v5.p107

Death of, v5.p108

Ikkeri (modern Ikheri), a city in the Mysore district of Southern India, v9.p81

Ilahi, reckoning of the year, v4.p46

Ilak Khan routed by Mahmud of Ghazni, v5.p52

Ilak Khan, conquered by Mahmud, in 1006, v3.p34

Illewanias (Illavars), a sub-caste of the Sudras, v9.p245

Ilyas Shah gains possession of Satgaon and Sonargaon in 1352, v3.p173

Imad Shah, dynasty of Berar, v3.p192

Imad-ad-din Rihan

Appointed to government of Badaun, v5.p125

Appointed to government of Bahraich, v5.p126

Chief in the army of Nasir-ad-din, v5.p120

Defeated and put to death, v5.p127

Despotism of, causes many chiefs to desert to standard of Ulugh Khan, v5.pp123–124

Dismissed from office of minister, v5.p125

Plot of, to prevent peace between Nasir-ad-din and Ulugh Khan, v5.p125

Viceroy during Nasir-ad-din’s absence at Hansi, v5.p121

Imad-al-mulk, king of Berar, v3.p192

Imago Mundi of D’Ailly quoted, v6.p58

Imports, Indian, value of, in England, in 1622, v8.p19

Inayat-Allah, son of Kasim Khan, sent against the Christians at Hugli, v6.pp279–280

India Councils Act, passage of the, v8.p455

India troops

European training of, v8.p126

Army components of, v8.pp170–171

India

Abundance and productiveness of trees in, v9.pp10–12

Accounts of, prior to the expedition of Alexander, very obscure, v9.pp3–4

Animals in, v9.p13

Awarded to Portugal by Pope Alexander Borgia, v8.p5

Babar’s final invasion of, begun in November, 1525, v3.p205

Beginning of British power in, v4.p188

Buddhism state religion of, v1.p319

Central table-land of, v4.p161

Cities of, formed by accretions of earth carried inland by the rivers, v9.p6

Civil war in, v8.p30

Close of the Mohammedan period of, v4.p188

Comet seen in, v4.p122

Commercial prosperity of, in the reign of Jahangir, v7.pp205–206

Decay of English settlements in, under the Old Company, v7.p289

Desire for open trade to, gains steadily, v7.pp268–270

Double government of, v8.p279

During Portuguese rule, v6.pp74–166

Earliest foreign notice of, v2.p12

Early civilization centred in, v1.p6

Effect of the direct government of, assumed by the Crown, v8.p456

England’s attempts to reach, v6.pp167–215

Estimate of foreign influence upon, v4.pp189–190

European invasions of, v2.p179

Exaggerated accounts of the population in certain portions of, v9.p25

Failure of first Arab conquest of, v3.p121

Flora of, v9.p151

General peace in, in 1784, v8.pp257–258

Greek and Chinese accounts of, v2.p13, v2.p14

History, value of, v1.pp3–4

Influence of the early Babylonian trade (7th century B.C.), on the alphabet of, v6.p4

Inherent weakness of, v8.p125

Inquisition established in, v7.p42

Invasion of, by the Graeco-Bactrians, v9.p3

Invasion of, influenced by fall of Samanid dynasty, v3.p17

Low price of territory in, reasons for, v7.p287

Macedonian conquests in, v9.p3

Military convulsions in, v7.p287

Musical instruments of, v9.p13

Natural irrigation of, v9.p6, v9.pp7–10

Northern, habitable and fertile, v9.p17

Old trade-routes to, and early accounts of, v6.pp1–35

Oldest records of, v1.p1

Passes to the Crown, v8.pp425–426

Political life, decadence of, v1.p3

Population of, at present time, v3.p1

Portuguese power in, advanced by Albuquerque, v9.p227

Produces medicinal drugs, roots, and dyes, v9.p13

Quest for, by sea, v6.pp36–73

Remarkable courage of dogs found in, v9.p23

Rivers of, v9.p5, v9.p8, v9.p9

Size, boundaries, surface, and climate of, v9.p125

Southern, climate of, v9.p17

Southern, produces cinnamon and nard, v9.p13

Subject to earthquake shocks, v9.p9

The only modern example of the evolution of an empire, v8.p493

Two harvests yearly in, v9.p10

Within the sphere of European diplomacy, v8.pp490–491

India, Northern, governed for more than eighty years by Slave Kings, v5.p87

Indian art, at Fathpur-Sikri, v4.pp35–39

Indian coast, English tend to settle on the, v7.p154

Indian history

Sources of, v2.p9

Literature, v2.p189, v2.p277, v2.p303, v2.p341

Indian Offices, sale of, under Philip III, a source of public revenue, v7.p54

Indian Succession Act, provisions of the, v8.p459

Indian trade, struggle between Portuguese and Arabs for, v6.p83, v6.pp85–101, v6.pp104–106, v6.pp108–110, v6.pp114–118, v6.pp124–128, v6.p131, v6.pp152–153

Indian tribes, number one hundred and eighteen, v1.p216

Indians

Customs of the, v9.pp43–45

Customs of the, as described by Nearchos, v9.pp58–59

Frugal in their mode of life, v9.p43

Gods of the, v9.p63

Indies, meaning of the term, v8.p86

Indo-Chinese

Dependency of the Indian Empire, formation of the, v8.p468

Trade-routes and early trade, v6.pp27–31, v6.p151

Indo-Iranians in Asia, v1.p9

Indo-Portuguese

Degenerate into colonies of half-breeds, v7.p39

Route, western terminus of, blockaded by the Dutch in 1606, v7.p63

Indore, city of the Deccan, western limit of the kings of the Deccan, v3.p186

Indo-Scythian = Kushan, v2.p219

Indra, v1.pp33–36

An Aditya, v1.p69

As leader, v1.p69

First among Vedic gods, v1.p63

Hymn to, v1.pp32–33

Slays Vritra, v1.p65

Storm-myth of, v1.p67

Indra, directions for constructing an idol of, v9.pp179–180

Indrajit, son of Ravana, v1.p122

Killed by Lakshmana and revived by a powerful medicine, v1.p122

Indrani, one of the “Seven Mothers” group of idols, v9.p181

Indraprastha, city in ancient India, v1.p106

Indus, river of India, v3.p3, v3.p19, v4.p24, v9.p5, v9.p18

Crossed by Mahmud of Ghazni, v3.p25

Size of the, v9.p24

Contains the waters of fifteen smaller rivers, v9.p24

Different authorities on the width of the delta of the, v9.pp25–26

Comparison of the width of the delta of the, with that of the Nile, v9.p26

Animals and fish inhabiting, v9.p38

Valley of lower, v2.p23

Boundary between Persian empire and India, v2.p36

Bridged, v2.p44, v2.p64

Confluence with Akesines of, v2.p87

Sacred river of the Panjab, v1.p49, v1.p126

Supposed statue of, in Alexandria, v6.p28

Change of course of the, v9.pp9–10

Industries, v1.p7

Infantry, a division of a Hindu army, v9.p143

Inheritance, law of, v1.p68, v1.pp227–229

Initiation into religious life, v1.pp239–241

Age of, varies in different castes, v1.p247

Innadi, a sub-caste of the Sudras, v9.p245

Inquisition established in India by the Dominicans, v7.p42

Inquisition in Europe, v6.p203, v6.p206

Inscriptions on Jain statues, v1.p326

Inscriptions, classes and value of, v2.p16

Of Asoka, v2.pp145–154

Institutes of Jahangir, v4.p60

Intellect, in Nyaya philosophy, v1.p263

Interest, six forms of, according to Gautama, v1.pp223–237

Internecine wars of the Kurus, v1.p83

Wars of the Panchalas, v1.p83

Invocation of the bright gods, v1.p6

Ionian settlements on the Nile, v6.p21

Irak, province of Persia

Abdallah ibn Amax ibn Kuraiz appointed governor of, v5.p2

Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf governor of, v5.p5

Mohammad Taghlak’s proposed conquest of, v5.p161

Iranians, separation of, from the Hindus, v1.p24

Iron Pillar of Delhi, v2.p281, v2.p329

Irrigation

Effect of, on India, v8.pp463–464

In ancient India, v1.p217

In Maurya period, v2.p121

In The Panjab, v1.p15

Reference to, in the tenth book of the Rig-Veda, v1.p17

Isa Upanishad, extract from, v1.p176

Isaiah, quoted, v6.p2

Isari, Hindu tribe, v1.p205

Isfahan, a city of Persia, v4.p92, v4.p94

Isfahan, city of Persia, v3.p76

Islam established in the Deccan and Gujarat, v6.p287

Islam Shah, son of Sher Shah, v3.p241

Rivalries of Afghans revived under, v3.p241

Death of, v3.p241

Confusion in kingdom of, v3.p241

Zeal for, in tenth century, v3.p18

Islam

A more congenial faith to Indians than Christianity, v3.p2

Aurangzib’s devotion to, v4.pp125–128

Doctrines of, too narrow for Akbar, v4.p41, v4.p44

Principles of, v4.p121, v4.p128

Religion of Mohammed, v4.p15, v4.p108

Ritual of, v4.p126

Teachings of, v4.p40

Teachings of, v9.p159

Islamabad, a name for Chittagong, v4.p144

Isma’il Khan sent by Babar to offer terms of capitulation to Ghazi Khan, v5.p244

Istakhri, Arab geographer and traveller, v5.p28

Istiya, a district of Afghanistan, Mu’izz-ad-din assigned to, v5.p78

Italy, commercial decline of, v8.p6

Italy, East India Company opens houses in, for disposal of Indian goods, v7.p254

Ivan III, of Russia, abolishes the charters of Novgorod (1475), v6.p35

Ivan IV, of Russia

Destroys Novgorod, v6.p35

Grants freedom of trade to English ships (1554), v6.p181

Izz-ad-din Balban

Appointed lord chamberlain by Nasir-ad-din, v5.p121

Appointed to Lakhnauti, v5.p134

Goes to camp of Ulugh Khan to arrange terms of peace, v5.p125

Sends presents to Nasir-ad-din, v5.p134

Izz-ad-din Husain Kharmil, a general Mu’izz-ad-din’s army, v5.p90

Izz-ad-din Kabir Khan Ayyaz, governor of Lahore

Is appointed to province of Multan, v5.p108

Revolts against Raziya, v5.p108

Secretly joins Raziya, v5.p106

Izz-ad-din Mohammad Salari

Joins forces with Malik Altuniya, v5.p108

Makes war against Raziya, v5.p105

Secretly joins Raziya, v5.p106

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