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
This collection transcribed by Chris Gage