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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, v4.p182, v4.p184

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

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