Observatory, first Portuguese, v6.p44, v6.p56
Occult power, gained by Yoga, v1.p260
Ocean, churning of, v1.p25
Odenathus, v6.pp10–11
Ohind, on Indus, v2.p54, v2.p99
Oidanes, a river flowing into the Ganges, v9.p66
Old Delhi, the city of the Ghazni rulers, v3.p137
Wall at, v3.p137
Olearius, a German traveller, who edited Mandelslo’s Journal, v4.p93
Oman, a district of Arabia
Army despatched to Tana from, v5.p2
Budail ibn Tahfa marches to Daibul from, v5.p7
Omar ibn Abd-al-Aziz, caliph of Bagh-dad in 717 A.D., v5.p15
Omar ibn al-Khattab, caliph of Baghdad, v5.p2
Omar ibn Hafs ibn Osman Hazarmard appointed governor of Sind, v5.p21
Omar ibn Hubaira al-Fazari, an officer under Hasham ibn Abd-al-Malik, v5.p16
Omar, second successor to Mohammad, v3.p3
Omayyad caliphate, v3.p6
Line, fall of the, v3.p16
Omphis = Ambhi, v2.p54, v2.p55, v2.p99
Omrah (Amir), a title of rule, v4.p128, v4.p135, v4.p136
Onesikritos, a Greek historian, v9.p1
On the irrigation of India, v9.p10
Sent by Alexander to interview the sophists, v9.pp54–57
Onor, Portuguese dealings with, v6.p148
Ophir (Abhira or Sopheira), v6.p7
Opium
Medieval trade in, from Arabia and Egypt to India and China, v6.p152
Albuquerque recommends cultivation of, in Portugal, v6.p152
Ora = Nora, a town in the hills, v2.p49
Ordeal, trial by, forbidden by Akbar, v4.p16
Ordeals, four Hindu, v9.p145
Order of Buddhist nuns founded, v1.p296
Order of Christ, Portuguese. deemed the conquest of the Asiatic Ocean a continuation of the Crusades, v7.p40
Order of Christ
A Malabar Christian made knight of the, v6.p143
Missionary zeal of the, v6.pp72–73
Prince Henry the Navigator Grand Master of the, v6.p44, v6.p54
Privileges granted to the, v6.p55, v6.p65
Ordinances, Twelve, of Jahangir, v5.pp295–299
Oreitai, nation or tribe, v2.p95
Oriental government, opportunities of, for exaction, v4.p33
Orissa, a district ruled by Akbar, v4.p3
Orissa, disease and death among English crews at, v7.pp240–241
Orissa, Hinduized, v1.p203
Orissa, province of Bengal
Raja of, conquered by the Bahmanid Sultan Mohammad II, v3.p191
Raja of, supports Warangal against the Bahmanid kings of the Deccan, v3.p187
Scanty knowledge of, from Mohammad Ghori to Akbar, v3.p174
Tughril’s victories in, v3.p87
Ormuz
Albuquerque attacks (1507), and makes the treaties with, v6.pp100–101, v6.pp120–121, v6.pp123–124
Albuquerque’s conquest of (1515), v6.p140
Albuquerque’s fortress at, v6.p100, v6.p104, v6.p115, v6.p121, v6.p123
Captured by the combined force of the Persians and the English, v7.p56
Captured by the English, v7.p35, v7.p55
Covilham travels through, v6.p61
Fitch and his companions taken prisoners at, v6.p212
Horse trade of, v6.p158
Method of choosing kings of, v7.p55
Persians and English combine to drive Portuguese from the island of, v8.pp20–21
Portuguese control of, v6.p113, v6.p121, v6.pp123–125, v6.pp157–158
Portuguese power in the island of, advanced by Albuquerque, v9.p227
Ornament, in Akbar’s palace, v4.pp85–39
Ortelius, Abraham, geographer, v6.p200
Orthodoxy of Shah Jahan, v4.p89
Osborn, Sir Edward, a founder of the Levant Company (1581), v6.p222
Osman ibn Abu-l-Asi
Appointed governor of Bahrain and Oman, v5.p2
Army of, victorious at Tana, v5.p2
Osman ibn Akkan, caliph of Baghdad, v5.p2
Appoints Abdallah ibn Amar ibn Kuraiz to government of Irak, v5.p2
Osmanli order of battle followed by Babar at Panipat, v2.pp205–206
Otranto taken by the Turks (1480), v6.p32
Otrar, former boundary of the kingdom of Khwarizm, v3.p76
Ottoman customs adopted by the Bahmanid Sultans, v3.p191
Ottoman Empire, v4.p142
Oudh under the sway of Shams-ad-din Altamish, v5.p97
Oudh, city in Faizabad
Aptagin hanged at the gates of, v3.p88
Forms separate fief in reign of Firoz Shah, v3.p153
Mohammad Bakhtiyar marches to, v3.p59
Oudh, province, v2.p25, v2.p249
Oudh, Vizir of, allies himself with the English, v8.p198
A barrier against the Marathas, v8.p477
Annexation of, v8.pp422–423, v8.p425
Clive makes an alliance with, v8.pp200–201
Decline of the State of, v8.p295
Vizir of, cedes all his frontier provinces to the English, v8.pp318–319
Ovid, v6.p48
Ovington, an English traveller in India, v4.p128, v4.p129
Oxathroi, tribe, v2.p88
Oxenden, Sir George, repulses the Marathas at Surat, v4.p155
Oxus, a river of Central Asia, v2.p198, v2.p221, v2.p285, v3.p4, v3.p16
Ancient northern trade-route by way of the, v6.p1, v6.pp13–19, v6.p22
Oxyartes, father of Roxana, a satrap, v2.p104
Oxydrakai, autonomous tribe of the Panjab, v2.p86
Oxykanos, chieftain, v2.p90
This collection transcribed by Chris Gage