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Wages fixed by authority, v2.p116

Wahindah = Hakra, the lost river, v2.p80

Waigatz Isle, v6.p188, v6.p198

Waihind, Mahmud of Ghazni in camp at, v5.p46

Wais Mohammad supreme in control of four departments of Humayun, v5.p274

Wali Kizil appointed military collector of Delhi by Babar, v5.p259

Walid ibn Abd-al-Malik, caliph of Bagh-dad, death of, v5.p14

Walpole, ministry of, v8.p91

Walpole, Spencer, citation from, v8.p493

Walsingham, Sir Francis, secretary, v6.p186, v6.p190, v6.p191, v6.p228

Wang-hiuen-tse, Chinese envoy, v2.pp316–317

War Office of Chandragupta Maurya, v2.p115

War, v1.p8

Equipment, account of, by Arrian, v1.pp213–214

Kuru-Panchala, v1.p83, v1.p100

Laws of, among Hindus, v1.pp214–215

Not stopped by advance of civilization, v1.p100

With the aborigines, v1.p30

Warangal, fortress of Haidarabad

Ala-ad-din’s army unsuccessful at, v3.p115

Eastern boundary of the Bahmanid kings of the Deccan, v3.p180

Finally taken by Ala-ad-din, v3.p120

Makes sporadic war on the Bahmanid kings of the Deccan, v3.p187

Mints of Mohammad Taghlak at, v3.p143

Warrior caste, rise of the, v1.p84

Warriors, Vedic, v1.pp42–43

Water, Hindu ordeal by, v9.p145

Water, manner of obtaining, for cultivation, v1.p16

Watson, Admiral, v8.p166

Waymouth, George, North-western expedition of (1602), v6.pp246–248

Wealth, in Brahmanic period, v1.pp146–150

Weapons, v1.p8

Allusions to, in the Rig-Veda, v1.p39, v1.p41, v1.p42

Hindu, v9.p143

Indian, v2.p63

Weaving, v1.p25

Weddell

Cuts in two the English line of communication between Surat and Goa, v7.p212

Goes to Goa and lands his goods there, v7.p212

Headquarters of, at Rajapur on the Bombay coast, v7.p212

Secures support of the king of Bijapur, v7.p215

Weighing of the Moghul emperor, a custom, v4.p44, v4.pp75–76, v4.p104, v4.pp136–137

Weight, Hindu ordeal by, v9.p146

Weinsjas, see Vaisyas

Weistnouwa, see Vaishnavas

Wellala (Vellalars), a sub-caste of the Sudras, v9.p244

Wellesley, Arthur, v8.pp310–311

Maratha campaigns of, v8.p327

Wellesley, Lord, Governor-General

Conquest of Mysore by, v8.p310

Critical estimate of the administration of, v8.pp340–342

Lands at Madras, v8.p306

Offers to resign, v8.p324

Policy of, v8.pp331–334, v8.p428

Political system of, v8.p323

Result of the rule of, v8.pp334–336, v8.pp339–340

System of subsidiary treaties of, v8.p316

Treaty of, with the Nizam, v8.p309

Western Turks, v2.p323

Whig Ministry displaced in 1841, v8.p403

White Huns, history of, v2.p285

Empire in sixth century of, v2.p321

Wicquefort, Abraham de, translated Mandelslo’s Journal into French, v4.p93

Widow-marriage, v1.p61

Not prohibited in Brahmanic and Epic periods, v1.p154

Widows, burning of, v4.p17

Allowed to remarry, v4.p17

Wight, Isle of, Venetian vessel lost off the (1587), v6.p209

William I, of Holland, v6.p205

Williams, William, assayer (1583), v6.p186

Willoughby, Sir Hugh, North-eastern expedition of (1553), v6.pp178–181

Reaches Nova Zembla and dies, v6.p180

Windsor, treaty of (1386), v6.p40, v6.p41

Wine-drinking, v4.p59, v4.p62, v4.p67, v4.pp73–75, v4.p79, v4.p84, v4.p95

Wives and husbands in Vedic sacrifices, v1.p52

Women

Absolute seclusion of, unknown in ancient India, v1.p160, v1.p151

Freedom of, in Vedic India, v1.pp53–55

Hold honoured place in ancient India, v1.p151, v1.pp153–154

Influence of, in ancient India, v1.p100

Privileges accorded to, v1.p151

Take part in Vedic sacrifices, v1.p60, v1.p52

Wood, Captain Benjamin

Expedition of, to India (1596), v6.p214

Sad end of crew of, v6.pp214–215

World, three primary divisions of the, v9.pp168–169

Worship, household, v1.p50

Writing known in India in the Philosophic period, v1.p216

Writing, art of, v2.p22, v2.p125, v2.p146

Wu-sun, horde, v2.p220

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