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
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
This collection transcribed by Chris Gage