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
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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