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Labourdonnais, Governor of Mauritius

Besieges Madras, v8.p104

Prepares to attack the English, v8.p103

Thrown into the Bastille, v8.p107

Laccadives, Portuguese treaties with, v6.pp127–128

Lafoden Islands, v6.p180

Laghman, in the Kabul valley, added to

Afghan dominions by Sabuktagin, v3.p18

Lahore, division, district, and town in the Panjab

Babar victorious at, v3.p205

Burial-place of Dara’s wife, v4.p119

Capital of descendants of Mahmud of Ghazni, v3.p53

Captured by Kutb-ad-din, v5.p91

Conquered by Mahmud of Ghazni, v3.p27

Court of, v3.p42

Falls peacefully into the hands of Mu’izz-ad-din, v5.p82

In the Maratha wars, v4.p229, v4.p231, v4.p232, v4.p236, v4.p237, v4.p238

Kubacha refuses to surrender, v3.p74

Massacre at, in 1241, v3.p80

Palace at, v4.p100

Palace of Asaf Khan at, v4.p133

Raided by Bahadur Shah, v4.p177

Ravaged by Mu’izz-ad-din, v5.p81

Ravaged in 1184 by Mohammad Ghori, v3.p55

Seized in 1048 by Hindus, v3.p51

Subject to Babar, v3.p220

Subject to Mohammad Taghlak, v3.p143

Under Ahmad Shall, v4.p183

Under Jahangir, v4.p194

Visited by Mandelslo, v4.p93

Visited by missionaries, v4.p100

Lake, General, success of, in the north-west of India, v8.p327

Lakhbakhsh (“giver of lacs”), an appellation of Kutb-ad-din Aybek, v3.p72

Lakhmaniya Rai, King of Bengal, v2.p346

Lakhnauti (Gaur), ancient capital of Bengal, v3.p59

Absorbs Sonargaon and Satgaon, v3.p173

Changes in name of, v3.p173

Mints of Mohammad Taghlak at, v3.p143

Taken by Balban, v2.pp88–90

The capital of Mohammad Bakhtiyar, v3.p71

Lakhnauti, throne of

Given to Malik Ala-ad-din Jani, v5.p100

Izz-ad-din Balban Uzbeg appointed to, v5.p134

Lakshmana, son of Sumitra, v1.p119

Accompanies his half-brother Rama into exile, v1.p120

Lakshmana-sena, King of Bengal, v2.p348

Lakshmi, v1.p76

Lal Darwazah, mosque at Delhi, built by Mahmud, v3.p180

Lalita Patan (Lalitpur), Asoka’s capital of Nepal, v2.p140

Lalita Vistara, poem of the Northern Buddhists, v1.p280

Lalitaditya, Muktapida, King of Kashmir, v2.p327

Lalliya, King of Kabul, v2.p328

Lally, Count

Attempts to recover Vandewash, but is defeated, v8.p145

Besieges Madras, v8.p143

Character of, v8.pp139–140

Expedition of, reaches India in 1758, v8.p141

Instructions to, v8.p137

Retreats to Pondicherri in 1760, v8.p146

Takes Fort St. David, v8.p142

Unpopularity of, v8.p142, v8.p143

Lamghan conquered by Sabuktagin, v5.p39

Lancaster

Commander of a squadron fitted out by the East India Company, v7.p2

Joins Dutch in an attack on the “Portugals”, v7.p2

Plunders a Portuguese ship, v7.pp2–3

Return of, to England, v7.p3

Lancaster, James, surviving captain of first English expedition to India by the Cape route (1591–1594), v6.pp193–194, v6.pp213–214

Land-administration

Under Akbar, v4.p27, v4.p30, v4.p31

Under Aurangzib, v4.p141

Land-revenue, or crown-rent, v2.p120

Langar Khan, commander of Bahrah, v5.p233

Language of India, Chinese account of the, v9.p135

Lanka besieged by a non-Aryan army, v1.p122

Lantor, Dutch expel the English from, in 1621–22, v7.p113

Laswari, battle of, v8.pp327–328

Latini, Brunetto, visits Roger Bacon and discusses the compass, v6.p53

Laud, Archbishop, impeachment of, v7.p186

Laurentian, or Medicean, portulan, fourteenth-century chart, v6.p47, v6.p49, v6.p50, v6.p199

Lava, son of Sita and Rama, v1.p123

Lavaur, a Jesuit, whose intrigues in India hastened the downfall of Lally, v8.p152

Law

Agrarian, passage from Apastamba on, v1.p223

Agrarian, passage from Gautama on, v1.pp223–224

As laid down in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, v1.p155

Criminal, reorganized in India, v8.p456

Hindu criminal, v9.p145

Of inheritance, v1.pp227–229

Of property, v1.p226

Questions of, discussed by Ala-ad-din and the kadi of Biana, v2.pp111–114

Usury, of ancient India, v1.p226

Varied in severity according to castes, v1.p220, v1.p221

Laws and By-laws, v6.pp244–245

Learning, branches of, in the Brahmanic and Epic periods, v1.pp157–158

Legends, development of Puranic, from poets of the Rig-Veda, v1.p25

Legislation, agrarian, v8.pp460–463

Leibnitz, in his “Consilium Aegyptiacum” urges Louis XIV to seize Egypt, and so command the trade of the East, v8.p62

Lenoir, an early governor of Pondicherri, v8.p93

Leo X, Pope, Bull of (1514), v6.p64

Leonnatos

Defeated Oreitai, v2.p95

Defended Alexander, v2.p86

Lepanto, battles of

Turks defeat Venetians in (1499), v6.p32

Turks defeated at (1571), v6.p111

Lerma, Spanish minister, v7.p45

Letters

Of Queen Elizabeth to Eastern potentates, v6.p248

Of James I, v6.p246

Levant

Ancient trade-route to the, v6.pp1–14

Turkish command of the route to the, v6.pp32–35

Venetian trade in the, v6.p35, v6.p168

English trade in the, v6.p183, v6.p197, v6.p205, v6.p221, v6.p222

Levees

Of Aurangzib, v4.pp129–130, v4.p138

Custom of, abandoned by Aurangzib, v4.p147

See also Darbars

Leyden, fame of, v7.p60

Lhasa, British expedition to, v8.p449

Licenses

Granted by the Portuguese in India to native traders, v6.p161

Granted to Venetians to trade with Portuguese in London (1507), v6.p203

Of Elizabeth for Lancaster’s voyage (1591), v6.p193

Portuguese, for trade granted to the Fuggers of Augsburg, v6.pp216–217

Power of the English East India Company to grant, for trade in the East, v6.p231, v6.p253

Lichchhavis, nation of ancient India, v1.p284, v2.p27, v2.p247

Ling Mahadeo, stone idols, destroyed, v5.p151

Linga of Somnath, v2.pp27–28

Lingayat, sect, v2.p359

Linschoten, John Huyghen van

Influence of, on Dutch and English exploration, v6.pp210–213

Travels of, v6.pp210–215

Lisbon, rise of, as a trade centre, v8.p6

Lisbon

Commerce of, v6.pp201–203

English prisoners at, v6.p255

Indian department at, v6.p161, v6.p162, v6.p164, v6.p218

Trade emporium of Eastern commerce, v6.p35

Literature

Ancient Hindu, v1.p2

Brahmana, v1.p88

Living, conditions under which the bodies of the, are burned, v9.p190

Lloyds, v6.p236, v6.p256

Lodis, Afghan dynasty, v2.pp63–64

Dethroned, v3.p209

Dynastic list of the, v3.p253

Logic, the fourth Hindu science, v9.p136

Lohita, a sacred pond, v9.p192

Lohitanadi, a river having its source in the sacred pond Lohita, v9.p192

Lok, Michael, finances Frobisher’s voyages, and is ruined, v6.pp182–183, v6.pp186–187

London

Directors, letter from the, v8.p210

Hanseatic trade quarrel in (1547), v6.pp178–179

Merchant Adventurers of (1551–1553), v6.p179

Merchants bring Eastern grievances to the king, v7.pp80–81

Merchants demand redress from the Dutch in 1611, v8.p12

Parliament cashiers the Company’s governor, v7.p254

Trade of, in Eastern commodities with Antwerp (1550–1560), v6.p203

Trade organizations, City Companies, Lloyd’s, and Stock Exchange the representatives of medieval, v6.p236, v6.p256

Long Parliament convened, v7.p186

Loni, conquest of, by Timur, v5.pp197–198

Lord of the Field, hymn to, v1.pp13–14

Lord, Henry, English chaplain at Surat, valuable researches of, v7.p206

Louis IX (St.), v6.p36

Louis XIV

Compared with Aurangzib, v8.pp52–53

Declares war against Holland in 1674, v8.p89

Louis XV, short-sighted policy of, v8.pp95–96

Lourenço de Almeida, Portuguese captain, v3.p184

Killed in battle in Arabian Sea, v2.pp184–185

Lubeck, one of the Hanseatic League, v6.p34

Lucknow, a city, v4.p234

Lucknow, battle of Humayun and Mahmud Lodi near, v3.p228

Lumbini garden, v2.p136, v2.p148

Lunar asterisms, enumerated, v1.p167

Lytton, Lord, appointed Viceroy of India, v8.p439

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