Chapter 15

THE RETURN OF THE CONQUEROR-STATESMAN, AND THE RECEPTION ACCORDED TO HIM BY HIS COUNTRYMEN: HIS STRUGGLES; AND HIS DEATH

One of the ablest and most impartial of English historians, the fifth Earl Stanhope, has thus summed up his appreciation of the results of the second administration of Clive in India: 'On the whole it may be said that his second command was not less important for reform than his first had been for conquest. By this the foundations, at least, of good government were securely laid. And the results would have been greater still could Clive have remained longer at his post.' It was impossible he could remain. In December, 1766, his weakness was so great as to disable him from writing. He required rest, and as we have seen he embarked for England at the close of the month following, to find there, alas! no rest, but, on the contrary, the bitterest, the most persistent, the most unscrupulous enemies; their attacks prompted by the corrupt officials whom he had driven from the posts they had abused, and who were able, nevertheless, to enlist in their vile {193}persecution statesmen of great renown holding high office under the Crown.

It is a pitiful tale, this persecution of a man who had rendered the most magnificent services to his country. The one blot minute investigation had been able to find in his career was the treatment of Aminchand. But Aminchand was a blackmailer who had threatened to betray a state-secret of enormous importance unless he were paid a sum out of all proportion to the services he rendered. Such a man deserves no commiseration. His treachery, if Clive had refused to subscribe to his terms, would have involved the death of thousands, and might have driven the English out of Bengal. Clive fought him with the same Asiatic weapon Aminchand had levelled against himself, and beat him. That his action was wrong in morals, unworthy of his lofty nature, is unquestionable. But it is not so certain that, under similar pressure, in circumstances so critical, those who most bitterly denounced him would have acted otherwise. Some writers have averred, and until recently it has been accepted, that the deceit drove Aminchand to madness. But inquiry has dissipated this fiction. He was, it is true, startled into insensibility by the discovery of the fact that he had been imposed upon, but, after visiting the shrine of a famous saint in Málwá, he returned to his business in Calcutta and prospered till his death. As to the other part of the same transaction, the signing of the name of Admiral Watson, Clive stated on oath, in his evidence {194}before the House of Commons, that although the admiral had refused to sign the document, he had, to the best of his belief, permitted Mr. Lushington to affix his name; and certainly amongst those who benefited by the transaction was Admiral Watson himself, who, after the triumph of the conspirators, claimed even more than he received. But it was on these two points that the miscreants whom Clive, in his second administration, had driven from the posts they had sullied, and their allies, based a persecution which tortured the enfeebled frame of the conqueror.

Clive's real fault in the eyes of the leaders of the persecution was that he had become rich himself, and had prevented them from fattening on the plunder of the country he had conquered. To most men, in fact to all but a very few men, in England and in France, India was a _terra incognita_ whither a certain few repaired young, and whence they returned, in the prime of their manhood, rich, and often with a great reputation. Why was it that such men were at once subjected to the vilest persecution? The fact that they were so is incontestable. Clive himself and Warren Hastings, whose reputation has recently been splendidly vindicated by two great Englishmen,[1] are cases in point in England; Dupleix and La Bourdonnais and Lally, in France. It is the saddest of sad stories; the men who had rendered the most brilliant {195}services to their respective countries finding their bitterest enemies often amongst the Ministers of the Crown. There is little to discriminate between the conduct of parliamentary England and despotic France except in the degree of misery and punishment to which they alike subjected the most illustrious of their countrymen who had served in India.

[Footnote 1: Sir Fitzjames Stephen in the case of Nanda-Kumár: Sir John Strachey in reference to the charges respecting Oudh and Rohilkhand.]

To return. It will be remembered that in his second administration Clive had purified the Civil Service of Bengal. The corrupt men whom he had ejected had returned to England whilst he was still in India, the charges made against them accompanying or preceding them in the despatches transmitted to the Court of Directors. On receiving these despatches the Court, having taken the opinions of their own lawyers and of those of the Crown, resolved to bring the culprits to trial for having accepted presents from the natives after they had received the order from the Court making such acceptance penal. But the inculpated men were rich and they resolved to appeal from the Directors to the Proprietors. There had been a difference between these two bodies as to whether the annual dividends should be increased from ten, the amount recommended by the Court, to twelve and a half per cent. At the annual meeting the votes of the men dismissed by Clive enabled the Proprietors to carry their point. The corrupt clique utilized this victory by proposing and carrying a resolution that the prosecutions instituted against them should be dismissed. This was accordingly done.

{196}Two months later, July 14, Clive landed in England. He was well received. The King and Queen admitted him to private audiences. The Court of Directors received him in full conclave, immediately after his reception by their Majesties, thanked him for his splendid achievements, and immediately convened a general Court to confirm the proposal that the jágír, granted him by Mír Jafar, should be confirmed to him for an additional ten years. This resolution was unanimously passed.

So far there was no sign of the coming storm. Not a sound of the distant hurricane had been wafted to the ears of Clive. He had returned as ambitious as he ever had been, resolved to devote to the service of his country the energies he had displayed in the East. Already he had made arrangements to secure seats for himself and for six of his relatives, when, to rest before the elections should take place, he started for Paris (January, 1768) with Lady Clive and a small party. He was very confident in the future. He had received personally the King's commands to lay before his Majesty his ideas of the Company's affairs both at home and abroad, with a promise of his Majesty's countenance and protection in anything he might attempt for the good of the nation and the Company. He had seen so much of what he called 'the ignorance and obstinacy' of the Court of Directors, who, he stated in a letter to his successor, Mr. Verelst, 'are universally despised and hated,' that he felt sure his would be the hand, in the coming meeting of the Court {197}of Proprietors, to stay their fall or to renew their vitality. In a word, his confidence was never greater, never did he feel more assured regarding the future.

Yet, during this confidence of the soul, this longing for political warfare, his nearest friends could easily detect that he had not sufficiently recovered from the strain of his last three years in India. His body did not respond to the call of the ever active brain. His friends and his physicians urged him then to take a complete rest and holiday of fourteen to fifteen months in France. With difficulty they induced him to stay eight months. Then he returned to find that he and his six relatives had, in his absence, been elected Members of Parliament.

His return produced a renewal of the activity of his enemies. They filled London with stories of his rapacity. Sir Robert Fletcher, whose shameful conduct during the mutiny of the officers I have recorded, wrote against him a pamphlet which irritated him greatly. He was hardly to be prevented from answering it. There were other considerations which, at this time, affected his career. When the general election at which he and his friends were returned had taken place, the Ministry was presided over by the Duke of Grafton, Lord Chatham being Lord Privy Seal and Lord North Chancellor of the Exchequer. At the end of 1769 Chatham was forced by the state of his health, which had long been bad, to resign; and in the January of the year following, the Duke of Grafton resigned and was succeeded as First Lord of the Treasury {198}by Lord North. Clive had not posed as a supporter of either of these administrations. He had declared himself to be a supporter of George Grenville, the head of the Grenville Whigs, who were then in opposition. It has been claimed[2] for him that Clive declined to commit himself to any party of the Indian policy of which he was ignorant. But none of the members of Lord North's Cabinet knew anything of India, and if Clive, commanding seven votes, had been asked to join it, he might have educated his colleagues on the subject. An opportunity of following such a course seemed to occur when Mr. Wedderburn, an able lawyer and a personal ally of Clive, joined the North Ministry, but Clive remained staunch to the Grenville connexion, exercising but little influence, and exposed all the time to the bitter shafts of his enemies, which increased every day in intensity and venom. To make the situation still less endurable George Grenville died (November, 1770).

[Footnote 2: Malcolm's _Clive_.]

Meanwhile affairs in India were not progressing satisfactorily. In Bengal, indeed, Mr. Verelst, acting on the lines laid down by Clive, had with the support of his colleagues succeeded in maintaining peace and prosperity. But in Madras, the incursions of Haidar Alí, an adventurer who by sheer ability and daring had climbed to the highest place in the kingdom of Mysore, had caused the English in that Presidency severe losses, and forced them to incur an expenditure which deprived the Proprietors of Indian {199}Stock of all chance of dividends for some time to come. To meet this financial embarrassment the Crown and the Company could dream of no other device than the futile one of sending to India three commissioners, who, under the name of Supervisors, should have full power over all the other servants of the Company. They nominated accordingly Mr. Vansittart, who, from having been the warmest friend of Clive, had become his bitterest opponent; and who, but for the successful opposition of Clive and his friends, would have been appointed Governor in succession to Mr. Verelst. With him they associated Mr. Scrafton, an old and valued servant of the Company; and Colonel Forde, the conqueror of the Northern Sirkárs and of Biderra--both intimate friends and adherents of Clive. These gentlemen sailed in the _Aurora_ frigate in the autumn of 1769. The _Aurora_ reached the Cape in safety, but was never heard of after she had quitted Simon's Bay. It was supposed that she foundered at sea.

Some considerable time elapsed before it had been realized in England that the Supervisors had failed them, and that it would be necessary to take other measures to remedy existing evils. Meanwhile events had happened which increased the necessity for immediate and effective action. In 1770 the three provinces were visited by a famine exceeding in intensity all the famines of preceding ages. There had been, in years gone by, no beneficent strangers from the West to make, as in later years, provision for the {200}occurrence of so great a calamity. The rains had failed; the water in the tanks had dried up; the rice-fields had become parched and dry. There were but few stores handy to enable the foreigner to disburse the necessary grain. It was the first famine-experience of the English, and they too had made no provision for it. The misery was terrible. The large centres of industry, the only places where there was a chance of obtaining food, became thronged with the dying and the dead. The rivers floating corpses to the sea became so tainted that the very fish ceased to be wholesome food. In summing up, two years later, the effects of the famine on the population, the Governor-General in Council declared that in some places one-half, and, on the whole, one-third of the inhabitants had been destroyed. It need scarcely be added that this terrible calamity affected the Proprietors of East India Stock in a manner, to them the most vital:--it destroyed their prospects of large dividends.

To remedy this evil the brains of the Court of Directors could devise no other scheme than that which the foundering of the _Aurora_ had previously baffled: they would send out other Supervisors. But Lord North had taken the matter in hand. He brought in a bill providing for the constitution in Calcutta of a Supreme Court, to consist of a Chief Justice and three Puisné judges, appointed by the Crown; giving to the Governor of Bengal authority over the two other Presidencies, with the title of {201}Governor-General, to be assisted and controlled by a Council of five members. The great blot of this bill was the clause which gave a controlling power to the Council. The Governor-General had in it but one vote, and in case of equality, a casting-vote. Mr. Warren Hastings who, twelve months before, had succeeded Mr. John Cartier[3] as Governor, was appointed first Governor-General of India.

[Footnote 3: Mr. Cartier had succeeded Mr. Verelst in 1769.]

The war with Haidar Alí and the famine in Bengal had brought India and Indian matters very prominently into the parliamentary discussions of 1771, 1772 and 1773, and during these the name of Lord Clive had not been spared. The attacks against him were led principally by General Burgoyne, a natural son of Lord Bingley, best known in history as the commander who surrendered a British army, 5,791 strong, to the American colonists.[4] In April, 1772, this officer had become Chairman of a Select Committee composed of thirty-one members, to inquire and report on Indian affairs. Another Committee, called Secret, and composed of thirteen members nominated by ballot, was appointed, on the motion of Lord North, in November of the same year, to take into consideration the whole state of the Company's affairs. Into the other proceedings of these committees this volume has no cause to enter; but they had scarcely been constituted when they began to let fly their arrows at Lord Clive. The chief cause of these attacks {202}is so well stated by the sober-minded historian,[5] that I cannot refrain from quoting his remarks. 'Besides the public wrongs of which he (Lord Clive) stood accused, there was also, it may be feared, a feeling of personal envy at work against him. His vast wealth became a more striking mark for calumny when contrasted with the financial embarrassments of the Directors in whose service he had gained it. And his profusion, as ever happens, offended far more persons than it pleased. He had bought the noble seat of Claremont from the Duchess Dowager of Newcastle, and was improving it at lavish cost. He had so far invested money in the smaller boroughs that he could reckon on bringing into Parliament a retinue of six or seven friends or kinsmen. Under such circumstances the Select Committee, over which Burgoyne presided, made Clive their more especial object of attack. They drew forth into the light of day several transactions certainly not well formed to bear it, as the forgery of Admiral Watson's signature, and the fraud practised on Aminchand. But at the same time they could not shut out the lustre of the great deeds he had performed. Clive himself was unsparingly questioned, and treated with slight regard. As he complains, in one of his speeches: "I their humble servant, the Baron of Plassey, have been examined by the Select Committee more like a sheep-stealer than a member of this House." And he adds, with perfect truth: "I am sure, Sir, if I had any sore {203}places about me, they would have been found: they have probed me to the bottom; no lenient plasters have been applied to heal; no, Sir, they were all of the blister kind, prepared with Spanish flies and other provocatives."'

[Footnote 4: At Saratoga, October 17, 1777.]

[Footnote 5: Lord Stanhope's _History of England_, vol. vii. pp. 353-4.]

Throughout these attacks Clive never lost his calmness or his presence of mind. Never once did his lofty spirit quail. He stood there still the unconquered hero, ready to meet every charge, sometimes retorting, but always nobly, on his adversaries. His friends rallied gallantly round him. His particular friend, Mr. Wedderburn, then Solicitor-General, gave him a support as valuable as it was unstinted. When his administration in Bengal was spoken of by his old enemy, Mr. Sulivan, in the House in a manner which, whilst not directly attacking it, conveyed the impression that there was a great deal more in the background, Clive went through every phase of his career in Bengal, defending his own action in a style which gained for him admiration. It was not, however, until the month of May, 1773, that General Burgoyne defined the vague charges which had theretofore supplied the place of argument, and brought them forward, as a vote of censure, in three resolutions. These resolutions ran as follows: (1) 'that all acquisitions made under the influence of a military force, or by treaty with foreign princes, did of right belong to the State'; (2) 'that to appropriate acquisitions so made to the private emoluments of persons entrusted with any civil or military power {204}of the State is illegal'; (3) 'that very great sums of money, and other valuable property, had been acquired in Bengal from princes and others of that country by persons entrusted with the civil and military powers of the State by means of such powers; which sums of money and valuable property have been appropriated to the private use of such persons.'

These resolutions named nobody. But in the speech in which they were introduced Burgoyne took care that there should be no doubt as to the person against whom they were directed. He dwelt, with a bitterness not to be surpassed, on all the delinquencies, real and imaginary, of the conqueror of Bengal. He traced all the misfortunes which had subsequently happened to the Company to the treasonable compact which had dethroned Siráj-ud-daulá and placed Mír Jafar on his seat, and denounced the conduct of the authors of that transaction as 'black perfidy.' He denounced, also, in terms equally severe, the treatment of Aminchand; the forging of the name of Admiral Watson; the agreement, which, he said, had extorted from Mír Jafar enormous sums, under the guise of presents, to the leading servants of the Company in Bengal. On the second administration of Clive, which was really a long struggle against the corruption by which he was surrounded, Burgoyne railed as bitterly and as unsparingly. Nor was he content with merely railing. Before he sat down he declared that if the House should pass his resolutions he would not stop there, but would proceed to follow them up with others, his {205}object being to compel those who had acquired large sums of money in the manner he had denounced to make a full and complete restitution.

The Solicitor-General, Wedderburn, conducted the defence for Clive, and it was noticeable that the party styled 'the King's Friends,' amongst many others, gave him their support. The Attorney-General, Thurlow, supported Burgoyne, and the Prime Minister, Lord North, voted with him. The voting on these resolutions did not, however, indicate the real sense of the House, for many of those who supported them thought it would be better for the cause of Clive that the further resolutions threatened by Burgoyne should be proceeded with in order that a decisive vote should be taken on a motion implicating Clive by name rather than on resolutions of a vague and general character. The resolutions, then, were carried.

Burgoyne then proceeded, as he had promised, to follow up his victory. On the 17th of May he brought forward the following resolution: 'That it appears to this House that the Right Honourable Robert, Lord Clive, Baron of Plassey, in the kingdom of Ireland, about the time of the deposition of Siráj-ud-daulá, and the establishment of Mír Jafar on the _masnad_, through the influence of the powers with which he was entrusted as member of the Select Committee and Commander-in-chief of the British forces, did obtain and possess himself of two lakhs of rupees as Commander-in-chief, a further sum of two lakhs and eighty thousand rupees as member of the Select {206}Committee, and a further sum of sixteen lakhs or more, under the denomination of a private donation, which sums, amounting together to twenty lakhs and eighty thousand rupees, were of value, in English money, of two hundred and thirty-four thousand pounds; and that in so doing the said Robert Clive abused the power with which he was entrusted, to the evil example of the servants of the public, and to the dishonour and detriment of the State.'

No one could say that these charges were not sufficiently pointed. Clive met them with his accustomed resolution. He rejoiced that the real issue had come at last; that the great jury of the nation, the House of Commons, was, after so long an interval devoted to calumny, to abuse, to vague and shadowy charges, to record its vote on the real question. On their decision on this resolution he would stand or fall. The alternative which his fiercest fights had presented to him, the necessity to conquer or to be disgraced, was presented to him here. He had won those fights by the exercise rather of his lofty moral qualities than by his skill as a soldier, and by the exercise of the same qualities he would win this one also. And he did win it. After Burgoyne, introducing his resolution, had traversed the same ground he had followed in the preceding resolutions, and had concluded by calling upon the House, like the old Roman heroes, 'to strike when the justice of the State requires it,' Clive rose to defend himself. Recapitulating the services he had rendered, he reminded the {207}House that the transactions in Bengal, upon which Burgoyne relied for a conviction, had been known in their general tenour to the Company and the Crown when they had thanked him, not once but repeatedly, for his services. He proceeded then to expose the interested and revengeful motives of the clique which had instigated the attack, not sparing even those in high places who, from various causes, had allowed themselves to sanction it. Turning from that point, he asked prominent attention to the fact that the India Office, now his accuser, had almost forced him to proceed for the second time to Bengal, and had expressed a deep regret that his health had not allowed him to stay there longer. 'After certificates such as these,' he added, 'am I to be brought here like a criminal, and the very best parts of my conduct construed into crimes against the State?' Stating then that the resolution, if carried, would reduce him to depend on his paternal inheritance of 500 pounds per annum, he continued: 'But on this I am content to live; and perhaps I shall find more real content of mind and happiness than in the trembling affluence of an unsettled fortune. But, Sir, I must make one more observation. If the definition of the hon. gentleman (Colonel Burgoyne) and of this House, that the State, as expressed in these resolutions, is, _quoad hoc_, the Company, then, Sir, every farthing I enjoy is granted to me. But to be called upon, after sixteen years have elapsed, to account for my conduct in this manner, and after an uninterrupted enjoyment of my {208}property, to be questioned, and considered as obtaining it unwarrantably, is hard indeed; it is a treatment I should not think the British Senate capable of. But if such should be the case, I have a conscious innocence within me that tells me my conduct is irreproachable. _Frangas non flectes._[6] My enemies may take from me what I have; they may, as they think, make me poor, but I shall be happy. I mean not this as my defence, though I have done for the present. My defence will be heard at that bar, but before I sit down I have one request to make to this House: that when they come to decide upon my honour, they will not forget their own.'

[Footnote 6: 'You may break, but you shall not bend, me.']

The debate was adjourned, and in the few days following some witnesses gave evidence at the bar of the House. Lord Clive's evidence, given before the Select Committee, was also read there. In the debate that followed, Mr. Stanley proposed to omit the words inculpating the honour of Clive. Mr. Fuller seconded this amendment, going even further, and striking out the sentence referring to the exercise of undue influence. His suggestion was accepted, and the House proceeded to discuss the amendment as so altered. After a protracted debate the division was called for, when it was found that 155 members had voted for the amendment and 95 against it. This victory stripped Burgoyne's resolutions of all their sting. Vainly did a member of his party attempt to restore the battle by moving that Clive had abused the {209}powers intrusted to him in acting as he avowedly had acted. The House refused to re-open that question. Finally, at five o'clock in the morning, the House passed the following resolution, which consummated the defeat of Burgoyne: 'That Robert, Lord Clive, did, at the same time, render great and meritorious services to his country.' On this conclusion to the violent attacks on Clive, Lord Stanhope, well versed in Parliamentary procedure, thus wrote: 'Such a vote might be deemed almost a verdict of acquittal. Certainly, at least, it showed a wise reluctance to condemn. It closed the whole case, and Clive had no further Parliamentary attack to fear.'

But though the victory was gained, the struggle affecting the personal honour and fortune of a proud and sensitive man had made deep inroads upon the constitution of one who had been long suffering from the acute agony caused by the malady contracted in India. Freed from the attack of his enemies, he might, had his health been only tolerable, have looked forward to a high command in the war just about to break out with the colonists of North America. There he would have been in his place; there, under the influence of constant action, he would have forgotten his troubles; even his oft-recurring spasms might have disappeared. But, after the Parliamentary contest was over, with the waning of the ever-present excitement, his health became worse. In vain did he repair to Bath to try the effect of its waters. In vain, finding that for him the virtues of the Bath waters had {210}departed, did he proceed to the Continent for travel. Rest came not. A complication of disorders prevented sleep, and travel failed to remedy the evil. His mind had no longer the sustaining power which in former days had enabled him to meet with tranquillity the frowns of Fortune. He returned to England in 1774, and shortly afterwards, in November of that year, when apparently thoroughly conscious,[7] fell by his own hand. 'To the last,' wrote Lord Stanhope, 'he appears to have retained his serene demeanour and stern dominion of his will.' It is difficult for us who have followed his career to realise the terrible upsetting of the balance of the great brain which had brought such an act within the bounds of possibility.

[Footnote 7: Lord Stanhope relates a story regarding the manner of Clive's death, told by the Earl of Shelburne, afterwards the first Marquis of Lansdowne, to the person from whom he (Lord Stanhope) received it. 'It so chanced, that a young lady, an attached friend of his (Clive's) family, was then upon a visit at his house in Berkeley Square, and sat writing a letter, in one of its apartments. Seeing Lord Clive walk through, she called him to come and mend her pen. Lord Clive obeyed her summons, and taking out his penknife fulfilled her request; after which, passing on to another chamber, he turned the same knife against himself.']

'Such was the end,' says a French writer, 'of one of the men who did the most for the greatness of England.' That foreign verdict is at least incontestable. Caesar conquered Gaul for his country; Hannibal caused unrest to Rome for nearly a quarter of a century; Wellington drove the French from Portugal and Spain. The achievement of Clive was more splendid than any one of these. He founded for this little island in the {211}Atlantic a magnificent empire; an empire famous in antiquity, renowned since the time of Alexander, whose greatest sovereign had been the contemporary of Queen Elizabeth, more enlightened than any of her predecessors, more tolerant, a more far-sighted statesman even than she. He was, according to Lord Stanhope, emphatically 'a great man.' But he was more than a great man. Like Caius Julius, he united two personalities; he was a great statesman and a great soldier. He was a man of thought as well as a man of action. No administration surpasses, in the strength of will of the administrator, in excellence of design, in thoroughness of purpose, and, as far as his masters would permit, in thoroughness of action, his second administration of Bengal. No general who ever fought displayed greater calmness in danger, more coolness of brain, than did Clive at Káveripák, at Samiáveram, at Calcutta, when, on the fog rising, he found himself enveloped by the Súbahdár's army, 40,000 strong. Nothing daunted him; nothing clouded his judgement; his decision, the decision of the moment, was always right. In a word, he was a born master of men.

But, says the moralist, he committed faults, and at once the false treaty made with Aminchand is thrown into the face of the historian. Yes, he did do it; and not only that, he stated in his evidence before the House of Commons that if he were again under the same circumstances he would do it again. None of his detractors had had the opportunity of judging of {212}the terrible issues which the threatened treachery of Aminchand had opened to his vision. Upon the decision of Clive rested the lives of thousands. To save those lives there appeared to him but one sure method available, and that was to deceive the deceiver. I think his decision was a wrong one, but it should always be remembered that, as Clive stated before the Committee, he had no interested motive in doing what he did do; he did it with the design of disappointing a rapacious man and of preventing the consequences of his treachery. He was in a position of terrible responsibility, and he acted to save others. Let the stern moralist stand in the same position as that in which Clive stood, and it is just possible he might think as Clive thought. At all events, this one fault, for fault it was, cannot or ought not to be set up as a counterweight against services which have given this island the highest position amongst all the nations of the earth. The House of Commons, after a long debate, condoned it. Might not Posterity, the Posterity which has profited by that very fault, be content to follow the lead of the House of Commons? With all his faults, Clive was 'one of the men who did the most for the greatness of England.' That fact is before us every day. His one fault hastened his death, from the handle it gave to the envious and the revengeful, and took from him the chance of gaining fresh laurels in America. May not the ever-living fact of his services induce us to overlook, to blot out from the memory, that one mistake, which he so bitterly expiated in his lifetime?

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INDEX

ADAMS, Major John, defeated Mír Kásim at Kátwá, 156: at Gheriá, 156: stormed strong position of Undwá Nala, 157: his death, 157: fought against Mír Kásim, 180.

AHMAD SHÁH, succeeded on the death of his father, Muhammad Sháh, 44.

AIN-Í-AKBARÍ, Blochmann's, quoted, 118_n_.

AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, Peace of, 40 and _n_., 42.

AKBAR, mentioned, 17, 85, 118_n_.

ALÍ VARDI KHÁN, Governor of Bihár, 85: battle of Gheriá, 85: proclaimed himself Súbahdár, 85: died, 85: succeeded by his grandson, Siráj-ud-daulá, 85.

ALLAHÁBÁD, occupied by the English, 157, 174: conference at, 174: clauses of Clive's demand at, 174.

AMBÚR, Anwar-ud-dín defeated and slain at, 45.

AMERICA, war with colonists of North, 209.

AMINCHAND, Calcutta merchant, 86: negotiated for Clive and his allies, 86: betrayed Siráj-ud-daulá's confidence, 87: demanded 20 lakhs of rupees, 87: his name omitted from false document by Clive, 87, 134, 135, 193, 202, 204, 211: informed by Mr. Scrafton that he was to receive nothing, 113: his pilgrimage to Malda, 113, 193: returned to his business in Calcutta, 113, 193.

ANGRIA, pirate chief at Gheriá, 77: his plunderings, 77: Commodore Jones sent to attack, 77: defeated by Watson and Clive, 78.

ANWAR-UD-DÍN, suspected poisoner of Khojá Abdullah, 28: appointed provisionally Nawáb, a guardian of the young prince, Saiyud Muhammad, 28: suspected murderer of the young prince, 30: Nawáb of Arcot, 31: appealed to by Dupleix, 33: attempted to prevent hostilities, 34: capture of Madras took him by surprise, 36: tried to regain Madras, but failed, 39: finally regained Madras, 41: slain, 45.

ARCOLA, story of the bridge of, compared to the battle of Arni, 57.

ARCOT, Dost Alí at, 24: Safdar Alí proclaimed Nawáb at, 25: Murtizá Alí declared himself Nawáb at, 27: Nizám-ul-Múlk with his army entered, 28: Saiyud Muhammad murdered at, 29: left almost undefended, 52: taken by Clive, 53: attacked by the French, 54: French dispersed by Clive at, 54: siege of, 55: strong garrison placed in, 59: Arcot mentioned, 183.

ARMAGON, English Settlement on the Coromandel Coast, 18.

ARMSTRONG, Captain, at Council of War, 93: arrested by Clive, 114: acquitted by court-martial, 114.

ARMY ADMINISTRATION, 179-90.

ARNI, battle of, 56-58: French defeated at, 58: its ruler declared for Muhammad Alí, 58.

ASAF JÁH, title granted to the family of Chin Kílich Khán, 17.

_Asiatic Annual Register_, quoted, 39_n_.

AURANGZEB, died in 1707, 16: placed the Súbahs he had conquered under a Súbahdár, or chief, 17: mentioned, 85, 172.

_Aurora_, frigate, in which Supervisors sailed, lost, 199.

BAJ-BAJ, fort near Maiápur, taken by Clive, 82.

BAKAR ALÍ, Governor of Vellore, 23.

BAKHSHÍ, Siráj-ud-daulá's Commander-in-chief, 86.

BAKSAR, battle of, 157, 181.

BÁNKÍPUR, military cantonment of Patná, 185: Sir R. Barker commandant at, 185: ringleaders arrested at, 186.

BAPTÁ, Clive encamped at, 111.

BARDWÁN, revenue of, granted money to Clive, 117.

BÁRH, Clive and Mír Jafar marched to, 118.

BARKER, Sir R., commandant at Bánkípur, 185: arrested ringleaders at Bánkípur, 186.

BARNETT, Commodore, in command of squadron, 33: died, 34.

BATH, Clive went to take the waters at, 209.

BATTA, 179: Mír Jafar's double batta, 179: discontinued, 180, 181: double batta at Allahábád, 181: single batta, 182.

BAYLEY, Mr., Robert Clive's uncle at Manchester, 9.

BEECHER, Mr., Member of Select Committee, 191.

BENARES, occupied by the English, 157: interview between Clive, General Carnac, and Nawáb-Wazír of Oudh at, 173: Zamíndár of, 175.

BENGAL, Clive in, 85: state of affairs in, 132: Clive's achievements in, 133-6: position of Bengal, 173.

BHÁGÍRATHÍ, 92.

BIDERRA, Dutch defeated by Forde and Knox at, 131.

BIHÁR, Alí Vardi Khán, Governor of, 85: Governor of, rebelled against Mír Jafar, 115: Clive and Mír Jafar at, 117: seat of saltpetre manufacture, 117: Mír Jafar yields it to East India Company, 118.

BÍJAPUR, king of, sold Puducheri to the French in 1672, named afterwards Pondicherry, 20: Muzaffar Jang, Governor of, 44.

BISNAGAR, Rájá of, granted a small portion of land, called Chennapatanam, to the English, 18, 19.

BLACK HOLE of Calcutta, 78, 79, 85, 132.

BLOCHMANN'S _Ain-í-Akbarí_, quoted, 118_n_.

BOSCAWEN, Admiral, in command of fleet, 39: laid siege to Pondicherry, 39: sailed for England, 40.

BOURDONNAIS, M. de la, sent in command of a squadron, 33: landed at Madras, 35, 194: captured Madras, 35: treaty, 35.

_Britannia_, ship on board which Clive returned to England, 191.

BROOME'S _History of the Bengal Army_, 90_n_., 95_n_., 96_n_., 109_n_.

BURGOYNE, General, 201 and _n_.: led attacks on Clive, 201, 203-9.

BURSLEM'S, Mr., school at Market Drayton, to which Clive went when he was eleven, 10.

BUSSY-CASTELNAU, captured Gingi for the French, 47: avenged the death of Muzaffar Jang, and caused Salábat Jang to be proclaimed successor, 48: retained at Dupleix's court, 60: overtures with Siráj-ud-daulá at Haidarábád, 87.

BUTE, Lord, Secretary of State, 143: Prime Minister, 143: Clive's suggestions to, 144: indignant at Clive's opposition, 145.

CALCUTTA, Black Hole of, 78-9: Manikchand, Governor of, 81: surrendered to Clive, 82: Watson took possession and handed keys to Drake, 82: Select Committee of, 87: Council of, 165, 179, 180.

CALLIAUD, Major, Commander of the Forces, 137: fought against the King of Delhi and defended Patná, 151: summoned to attend Council, 151.

CAMBRIDGE'S _War in India_, quoted, 43_n_.

CAMPBELL, Captain, at Council of War, 93.

CAREY, Mrs., among the prisoners in the Black Hole of Calcutta, 79.

CARNAC, General, 157: placed by Clive at head of army, 159, 166: met Clive at Benares, 173: fought against Mír Kásim, 180.

CARSTAIRS, Capt.-Lieut., at Council of War, 93.

CARTER, Mr., Member of Select Committee, 191.

CARTIER, Governor after Verelst, 201 and _n_.

CHAMPION, Colonel, 187.

CHANÁR, occupied by the English, 157: ceded to the English, 174.

CHÁNDA SÁHIB appointed Diwán by Saádat-ullá-Khán, 23: sent with Safdar Alí to capture Trichinopoli, 24: remained as Governor, 24: went to Arcot to do homage to Safdar Alí, 25: suspecting danger, left his family at Pondicherry, 26: kept up the siege of Trichinopoli for three months, 26: surrendered, 26: taken off in custody, 26: at Sátára, 31: released, 44: Nawáb of Arcot, 45: marched to Trichinopoli, 46: retreated to Pondicherry, 47: besieged Trichinopoli, 51: sent troops to join his son, Rájá Sáhib, at North Arcot, 54: defeated, 56-8: his army still in position before Trichinopoli, but much weakened, 59: murdered, 73.

CHANDRANAGAR, taken by Clive, 84: Clive's troops stationed at, 90: Dutch defeated at, 131.

CHAPRÁ, in Bihár, meeting at, 175.

CHARLES VI, died in 1740, 31.

CHENNAPATANAM, granted to the English by the Rájá of Bisnagar, 18-19: renamed Madras, 19: Fort St. George built, 19: Madras raised to a Presidency, 19: population at the end of 17th century, 19: constitution of the town in 1744, 19.

CHIN KÍLICH KHÁN, took steps to make the Súbahdárship hereditary in his family, 17, 23: obtained titles of Nizám-ul-Múlk and Asaf Jáh, 17: ruler of Deccan, 18.

CIVIL SERVICE, reformed by Clive, 160, 169-70.

CLAREMONT, bought by Clive, 202.

CLARKE, Captain, in command at Devikota, 50: at Trichinopoli, 51.

CLIVE, Robert, arrived at Madras as a writer in the service of the East India Company in 1744, 9, 10, 11, 30: his early years not promising, 9: born at Styche, 9: sent to his uncle, Mr. Bayley, at Manchester when three years old, 9: sent to school at Lostocke, 10: removed to Market Drayton, 10: brief experience of public school-life at Merchant Taylors', 10: private school in Hertfordshire till appointed writer, 10: his character at his several schools, 10: belonged to a 'fighting caste,' 10: learned to lead, 10: life of an attorney distasteful to him, 10: duties and life of a writer not congenial to Clive, 12-13: left England in 1743, 12: delayed at Rio for nine months, 12: insulted a superior functionary, 13: assaulted by the Rev. Mr. Fordyce, 14: regarded as a quiet member of society by his superiors, 15: Mr. Morse, Governor at Madras, befriended him, 15: state of India when Clive arrived described, 16-30: Clive's fortunes affected by the hostilities between the French and the English, 32-41: conspicuous in the first siege of Pondicherry, 39: retired to Fort St. David, 40: joined the expedition to Devikota as a volunteer, 42: under Major Lawrence stormed Devikota, which was ceded to the East India Company, 43: situation when Clive returned from Devikota described, 45-48: appointed Commissary of the Forces, 48: ill and ordered for a cruise, 48: on his return he equipped a force for Trichinopoli, 48: accompanied a larger force to Volkonda, 49: objecting to Captain Gingen's commands and mismanagement he returned to Fort St. David, 49: volunteered to go with Mr. Pigot to accompany a force with provisions to Trichinopoli, 49: went as far as Verdachelam, 49: returned to Fort St. David, 49: determined to become a soldier, 50: Governor of Madras gave him the commission of captain, 50: directed him to go to Devikota with troops and join Capt. Clarke, 50: and report from Trichinopoli to Mr. Saunders, 50: Clive impressed by the depressed condition of the native prince and English soldiers, 51: resolved to remedy conditions, 51, 52: returned to Fort St. David to consult Mr. Saunders, 52: despatched to Madras with 200 soldiers, 52: 300 sipáhís, 53: reached Kanchípuram, 53: went on to Arcot, 53: defeated the natives at Tímerí, 53: sent for guns from Madras, 53: guns intercepted at Kanchípuram, 53: marched to save the guns, and in his absence the enemy attacked Arcot, 54: brought the guns into the fort and the enemy dispersed, 54: siege of Arcot, 55: took Timerí, 56: marched to Arni to attack Rájá Sáhib, 56: dispersed the enemy, 58: marched to Kanchípuram and took possession, 58: returned to Madras and then to Fort St. David, 59: Dupleix attempting to reconquer Arcot, Clive was sent with troops to meet him, 63: reached Vendalúr and marched on to Kanchípuram, 64: after a short halt, proceeded to Káveripák, where the French were concealed, 64, 65: battle, 66: Clive won, 66: baffled Dupleix, 67: returned to Fort St. David, 67: prepared to go to Trichinopoli, 67: despatched by Lawrence to occupy Samiáveram, 68: his engagements with d'Auteuil, 68, 69: Clive surprised at Samiáveram, 70: defeated the enemy, 72, 73: captured Paichanda, 73: forced d'Auteuil to surrender at Volkonda, 73: Clive returned to Fort St. David, 73: proceeded to Madras for rest, 73: married Miss Maskeleyne, 74: left Madras on sick-leave, 74: Clive in England, 75: Court of Directors gave him a great banquet, 75: voted him a diamond-hilted sword, 75: stood for St, Michael, returned as supporter of Mr. Fox, 76: unseated, 76: returned to India, 76: appointed Lieut.-Colonel, and named Governor and Commander of Fort St. David, with succession to the Governorship of Madras, 76: took troops to India with instructions to convey them to Bengal, 76: Clive and his troops attacked and destroyed Gheriá, 78: went along the Coromandel Coast back to Fort St. David, 78: Clive sent to the Húglí, 80: landed near Maiápur, marched to Baj-baj, 81: surprised in the night by Manikchand, Governor of Calcutta, 82: Calcutta surrendered to Clive, 82: Admiral Watson took possession, 82: Clive stormed Húglí, 83: treaty with the Nawáb, 84: conquered Chandranagar, 84: Clive's dealings with Siráj-ud-daulá, 85-88: preparations for war, 90: the battle of Plassey, 91-106: English loss small, 105: Clive's great victory, 105, 106: Clive's dealings with Mír Jafar, 109-11, 115-23: with Aminchand, 113: spoils of Plassey disputed, 113-7: created Mansabdar, 118: his dealings with the Princes of Southern India, 123: the Dutch invasion, 124-30: defeat of the Dutch, 130-2: Clive's achievements in Bengal, 133-7: leaves Bengal 1760, 137: Clive's second visit to England, 138-48: Clive's letter to Mr. Pitt, 139-41: Clive's fame as a soldier, 141: did not receive a warm welcome, 142: ill health, 142: made an Irish peer, 143: not a supporter of the Bute Administration, 143: Mr. Lawrence Sulivan, enemy of Clive, 144: Sulivan's objection to the donation of the jágír to Clive, 145: Clive voted against the Peace of Paris, 145: Sulivan tried to exclude Clive from a seat in the India House, 145: Clive defeated, 146: disturbance in Calcutta caused a panic in the India House, 146: Clive urged to accept the office of Governor-General, 146: fresh election by the Court of Proprietors, and Clive returned, 147: Clive's proposal regarding the jágír, 147: Clive started for India, 148: Clive appointed Vansittart to succeed him as President of the Council in Bengal, 149: disturbances arose about the successor to Míran, who had died suddenly, 150-1: war broke out, 156: Clive returned to Calcutta, 157: remodelled the army and the Civil Service, 159-60: presents from the Natives to Civil Servants prohibited, 161: Clive's dealings with the corrupt faction, 162-3: his attempts to improve the Company's trade, 163-5: re-constitution of the Calcutta Council, 165-6: the Select Committee, 166: his attempts to reform civil administration, 166-7: Clive hated, 167: his good influence over the younger members of the service, 169: Clive's tour northward, 171: Clive's instructions to the young Súbahdár at Murshidábád, 171, 172: he proceeded to Benares, 173: after an interview with Nawáb-Wazír, they proceeded to Allahábád to confer with Sháh Alím, 174: Clive's demands, 174: Nawáb-Wazír granted all except the one regarding factories, 174-5: the meeting at Chaprá, 175: league formed against Maráthá aggression, 175: question of the English frontier discussed, 175-6: Clive's views regarding the Súbah, the English to keep in the background, the power to be in the hands of the Súbahdár, 176-7: 'Lord Clive's Fund,' 178: Clive's army administration, 179-89: 'double batta,' 179, 181-2: conspiracy in the army, 184-9: Clive's mode of suppressing it, 189: Clive resigned in 1766, and returned to England in 1767, 191: his persecutions, 192-6, 201-9: visit to Paris, 196: on return to England found he was elected Member of Parliament, 197: affairs in India unsatisfactory, 198-201: attacks on Clive, 201-9: his acquittal, 209: went to Bath to try the waters, 209: went abroad, 210: returned to England, 210: his death, 210: comments on the life of Clive, 211, 212.

CLIVE'S _Evidence before the Committee of the House of Commons_, quoted, 96_n_., 135_n_.

CLIVE'S _Report to the Court of Directors_, quoted, 96_n_.

COCHIN, independent territory, 17.

COMMISSARY OF FORCES, Clive appointed, 48.

COOTE, Major Eyre, nominated Governor of Calcutta by Admiral Watson, 82: Clive objected to the nomination, 82: sent by Clive to occupy Katwá, 91: at Council of War, 93: sent with a detachment, after Plassey, 105.

COOTE'S _Narrative_, quoted, 96_n_., 103_n_.

COPE, Captain, mentioned in the account of the assault against Clive by Mr. Fordyce, 14: commander of Force sent to help ex-Rájá of Tanjore, 42: sent to Trichinopoli, 48.

CORNEILLE, Captain, at Council of War, 93.

CORNISH, Admiral, on the Arakan coast, 127.

COROMANDEL COAST, English Settlement at Armagon on the, 18.

COUNCIL OF WAR, 92-3: question submitted to, 93.

COURT OF DIRECTORS fêted Clive on his return to England, 75-6: appointed Clive Lieut.-Colonel, and named him Governor and Commander of Fort St. David, with succession to Governorship of Madras, 76: Clive's letter to, 98, 105-6: appointed ten men to manage affairs in Bengal, 119: constitution of, 138: disputed Clive's right to the jágír, 142: granted to Civil Servants right to private trade, 163: summary of the state of Bengal by, 166-7: batta, 179-81: curtailed their allowances, 180, 181: received Clive well in England, 196: sent out supervisors, 199, 200.

CUDDALORE, Mr. Fordyce assaulted Clive at, 14.

CUDMORE, Captain, at Council of War, 93.

DÁBHOL, Commodore Jones recalled from, 78.

DAMALCHERRI, pass in the Karnátik, 25, 45.

DÁUDPUR, 94: meeting between Mír Jafar and Clive at, 105: entire force united at, 105.

D'AUTEUIL, sent by Dupleix to take Law's place, 68: approached Utátur, 68: surprised Clive, 70: defeated by Clive, 73: retreated to Volkonda, 73: surrendered to Clive, 73.

DECCAN, territories belonging to, 17: territories independent of, 17.

_Decisive Battles of India_, by Colonel Malleson, 66_n_., 131_n_., 156_n_.

DELHI, sack of, 16, 30: Siráj-ud-daulá's overtures to Court of, 88: Muhammad Sháh, Emperor of, 30: King of, threatened rebellion against Mír Jafar, 121: invasion of, 151: defeated by Calliaud and Knox, 151: Mír Kásim died at, 158.

DEVIKOTA, English tried to possess the Fort of, 42: Clive sent to join Major Lawrence at, 50.

DHÁKÁ in rebellion against Mír Jafar, 115.

DIAMOND HARBOUR, Dutch vessels at, 126.

DISRAELI, Isaac son of, mentioned, 10: life of an attorney as distasteful to him as to Robert Clive, 10.

DOST ALÍ, appointed to succeed Saádat-ullá Khán as Nawáb of the Karnátik, 23: sent his son to capture Trichinopoli, where he was slain, 25: his son proclaimed Nawáb, 25.

DRAKE, Mr., Governor at Calcutta, 78: fled to the Húglí, 78.

DRAYTON, Market, _see_ Market Drayton.

DULÁB RÁM, _see_ Rájá Duláb Rám.

DUMAS, M. Benoit, Governor-General of French possessions in India, 21: at Pondicherry, 25.

DUPLEIX, M., succeeded Dumas as Governor-General of French possessions, 21, 32, 60, 194: received instructions from the Directors on account of the impending war with England, 32: ordered to join M. de la Bourdonnais, 33: urged to arrange with the Government of Madras that the two settlements should preserve neutrality, but not granted, 33: he appealed to Anwar-ud-dín, 33: hostility stopped in the Karnátik, 34: took Madras, 36: sole director of French interests, 36: sent a small force under Paradis to relieve Madras, 37: slaughter at St. Thomé, 37: tried to expel the English from all their settlements, 38: siege of Pondicherry, 39: directed the defence, 39: attempted to take Trichinopoli, 60: sent Law in command of troops, 60: unsuccessful, 61: urged Rájá Sáhib to proceed to reconquer Arcot, and, if possible, attack Madras, 62: attacked Punamallu, 62: marched to Kanchípuram and Vendalúr, 62: Rájá Sáhib's army met by Clive at Káveripák, 64: Clive surrounded by the French, 65: defeated by Clive, 66: sent d'Auteuil to replace Law, 68.

DUTCH, monopoly of trade with the Moluccas, 124: various conquests in the East, 124: Dutch-Indian Company, 124: settlement at Chinsurah, 124: negotiations with Mír Jafar, 125: Dutch fleet approaching Húglí, 126: Clive demanded explanation from them, 126: invasion of the, 126-30: complete defeat of, 131.

_Early Records of British India_, by Talboys Wheeler, quoted, 177 and _n_.

EAST INDIA COMPANY, Clive, writer in the service of, 9, 10, 11: Bihár saltpetre manufacture farmed by, 118: Directors of, 164: Diwán of the three Provinces, 172.

EATON, Dr., private school at Lostocke, to which Clive was sent till he was eleven, 10.

ELLIOT'S _History of India_, quoted, 31_n_., 44_n_., 100_n_., 176_n_.

ELLIS, civil officer, prepared to seize Patná, 155: defeated, 156.

_Evidence before the Committee of the House of Commons_, by Clive, quoted, 96_n_., 134_n_.

EYRE COOTE, Major, _see_ COOTE.

FACTORIES, not to be established by the East India Company in Oudh, 174: Nawáb-Wazír's opinion of, 174-5.

FAIZÁBÁD, occupied by the English, 157.

FALTA, Major Kilpatrick with troops at, 80: Admiral Watson's squadron at, 80: Dutch attack off, 129.

FAMINE in the three Provinces, 199-201.

FISCHER, Captain, at Council of War, 93.

FLETCHER, Sir Robert, Commandant at Mungír, 185, 187: tried by court-martial and cashiered, 189: his pamphlet, 197.

FORDE, Colonel, sent by Clive to Vizagapatam, 122: united with Rájá's troops, 122: expelled French from northern Sirkárs, 122: took their fortress, 122: secured the influence for the English, 122: fought against the Dutch, 128: occupied Bárnagar, 129: marched to Shirirámpur, 129: Knox joined him, 130: defeated Dutch, 131: appointed Supervisor, 199.

FORDYCE, Rev. Mr., his assault against Clive, as reported by the Board at Fort St. David, 14: suspended, 14.

FORREST'S _Records of the Madras Presidency_ (1890), 14, 40_n_., 41_n_., 50_n_., 52_n_.

FORT ST. DAVID, Board at, 14: English officials from Madras escaped to, 38: Clive helped to defend, 38: French tried to take, 39: Clive appointed Governor of, 76.

FORT ST. GEORGE, built at Madras, 19.

FORT WILLIAM, built by Job Charnock in the reign of King William III, 119.

FOX, Mr., Clive a supporter of, 76.

FRAIS, M. St., _see_ ST. FRAIS.

FRENCH COLONY, at Pondicherry, 20: on the Malabar coast and at Chandranagar, in Bengal, 21.

FULLER, Mr., seconded amendment to the attack against Clive, 208.

GAUPP, Captain, at Council of War, 92.

GEORGE II, King, his opinion of Clive, 141: his death, 143.

GHERIÁ, fort at, 77: headquarters of Angria, pirate chief, 77: taken by Watson and Clive, 78: Alí Vardi Khán's battle at, 85.

GHULÁM HUSÉN, _see_ CHÁNDA SÁHIB.

GINGENS, Captain, sent to Volkonda, 48: mismanaged affairs, 49: in command at Trichinopoli, 51.

GINGI, fortress of, 47: captured by the French, 47.

GOLKONDA, Nizám-ul-Múlk retired to, after taking Trichinopoli, 28.

GRAFTON, Duke of, at head of Ministry, 197: resigned, 197.

GRANT, Major, at Council of War, 92.

GRANT, Captain Alexander, at Council of War, 93.

GRENVILLE, George, 198: Clive a supporter of, 198: his death, 198.

GRIFFIN, Admiral, commanding squadron, 39.

GÚDALÚR, important town near Pondicherry, 38.

GUNDLAKAMMA, river in Madras, 17.

HAIDAR ALÍ, invaded Madras, 198, 201.

HAIDARÁBÁD, overtures between Siráj-ud-daulá and Bussy at, 87.

HASTINGS, Warren, mentioned, 194: first Governor-General of India, 201.

HEBER, Bishop, quoted, 37_n_.

HIGH-ROAD from Húglí to Patná made by Mughal Government, 90.

_History of England_, by Lord Stanhope, 202_n_.

_History of Indostan_, by Orme, quoted, 20_n_.

_History of India_, by Orme, quoted, 95_n_., 109_n_.

_History of India_, by Elliot, quoted, 31_n_., 44_n_., 100_n_., 176_n_.

_History of the Bengal Army_, by Broome, quoted, 90_n_., 95_n_., 110_n_.

_History of the French in India_, by Colonel Malleson, 36_n_.

HOLLAND, 124.

HOLWELL, Mr., in charge during Clive's absence, 136-7.

HOPE HALL, the residence of Mr. Bayley, where Clive was brought up, 9.

HÚGLÍ, river, fugitives in ships on the, 78: Major Kilpatrick sent with troops to, 79: Watson and Clive sent to, 80.

HÚGLÍ, town, stormed by Clive, 83: revenue of, granted money to Clive, 117.

_Indostan, History of_, _see_ _History of Indostan_.

INDIA passed to the Crown, 178.

INDIA HOUSE, Sulivan excluded Clive from seat in, 145: proprietors forced the Governor-Generalship of Bengal on Clive, 146: sent a new covenant to Calcutta, 161: refused to increase salaries, 165.

IVES'S _Voyage and Historical Narrative_, quoted, 94_n_., 96_n_.

JÁGÍR, conferred on Clive, 123 and _n_.: disputed by Court of Directors, 142, 145-7.

JALANGÍ, river, 91.

JENNINGS, Captain, at Council of War, 93.

JOHNSTONE, Mr. Gideon, received money for secret services, 161.

JONES, Commodore, sent to attack Angria, 77: recalled from Dábhol, 78.

KALNÁ, Mr. Watts at, 92.

KÁLPI, English victory at, 157.

KANCHÍPURAM, Clive on his way to Arcot halted at, 53: guns intercepted at, 53: siege of, 58: taken by Clive, 58.

KARNÁTIK, territory of the Deccan, 17: not immediately under the Súbahdár, 17: territory entrusted to a Nawáb, 17: its boundaries, 17, 18: invasions and war in the, 21-31: Khojá Abdullah, Nawáb of the, 28.

KARRA, English victory at, 157: held by the English, 174.

KÁSIMBÁZÁR, Mr. Watts, English agent at, 86: Siráj-ud-daulá sent an army to Plassey, in the island of, 88 and _n_.: troops at, 116, 119.

KÁSIPUR, seat of gun-factory, 83: Clive at, 83.

KÁTWÁ, Major Eyre Coote sent to occupy, 91: battle of, 156.

KÁVERIPÁK, battle of, 64-6, 183, 211: Clive defeats the French and allies, 66: occupied by Clive, 66.

KHOJÁ ABDULLAH, proclaimed Nawáb of the Karnátik, 28: poisoned, 28.

KILPATRICK, Major, sent from Madras to the Húglí, 79: reached Falta, 80: at Council of War, 92: in command of troops at Plassey, 102: marched against St. Frais, 102: joined by Clive, 102.

KISHANGARH, revenue of, granted money to Clive, 117.

KNOX, Captain, fought against the Dutch, 128: defeated the Dutch, 131: fought against the King of Delhi and defended Patná, 151.

KOILÁDÍ, French attempted to intercept Lawrence at, 67.

KOLRUN, River, 68, 69.

LALGUDI, mud fort of, taken by Clive, 68.

LALLY, Count, sent to Pondicherry, 120: marched to Tanjore, 120: recalled Bussy, 120: successes achieved by, 120, 194: left northern Sirkárs unprotected, 121.

LASCARS, with Clive at Plassey, 90, 95.

LAW, of Lauriston, sent by Dupleix to Trichinopoli, 60: unsuccessful, 61: fought gallantly at Pondicherry, 61: replaced by d'Auteuil, 68: defeated by Clive at Paichanda, 69-73: surrendered, 73: sent by Clive near Chandranagar with troops, 84.

LAWRENCE, Major Stringer, in command at Fort St. David, 40_n_.: took a force to Devikota, with Clive as lieutenant, 43: stormed Devikota, 43: treaty, 43: returned to Fort St. David, 44: joined Clive, 67: started with Clive for Trichinopoli, 67: entered Trichinopoli, 68: assisted by Morári Ráo and the Dalwai of Mysore, 68: sent Clive to occupy Samiáveram, 68.

LAWRENCE, Lord, quoted, 16_n_.

LE BEAUME, Captain, at Council of War, 93.

_Letters_, by Scrafton, quoted, 160_n_.

_Life of Clive_, by Malcolm, 103_n_.

'LORD CLIVE'S FUND,' 178.

LOSTOCKE, private school where Clive was educated till he was eleven, 10.

LUCAS, Captain, mentioned in the account of the assault against Clive by Mr. Fordyce, 14.

LUCKNOW, occupied by the English, 157.

LUSHINGTON, affixed Admiral Watson's name to false document regarding Aminchand, 194.

MA'AFUZ KHÁN, son of Anwar-ud-dín, sent to demand Madras, 37: encountered Dupleix at Maliapur, St. Thomé, 37: defeated, 37: taken prisoner, 45.

MADHUPUR, Clive despatched Watts and Walsh to, 111: Clive marched to, 111.

MADRAS, Robert Clive arrives as a writer in the service of the East India Service in 1744 at, 9, 30: Mr. Morse Governor at, 15, 33: originally Chennapatanam, 19: granted to the English and re-named Madras, 19: Fort St. George built, 19: raised to Presidency in 1653, 19: population at end of 17th century, 19: constitution of the town, 19: English trading colony, 20: French colony, 20: taken by the French, 35: restored, 41.

_Madras Presidency, Records of_, by Mr. Forrest, mentioned, 14, 40_n_., 41_n_., 50_n_., 52_n_.

MAIÁPUR, Watson and Clive at, 81.

MALCOLM, Sir John, mentioned, 143: quoted, 169: _Life of Clive_, 103_n_., 143_n_., 198_n_.

MALDA, Aminchand's pilgrimage to, 113.

MALIAPUR, battle between French and English at, 37.

MALLESON'S, Colonel, _History of the French in India_, 36_n_.: _Decisive Battles of India_, 66_n_., 130_n_., 156_n_.

MANCHESTER, Clive sent to his uncle to be brought up and educated at, 9.

MANIKCHAND, Governor of Calcutta, 81: marched to Baj-baj, 81: retired, 82.

MANSURPET, pagoda of, taken by Clive, 68.

MARÁTHÁS, took Trichinopoli, 25: invasion of, 25, 26: yielded Trichinopoli to Nizám-ul-Múlk, 28: overtures with Siráj-ud-daulá, 87: Maráthá ditch, 108: defeated at battle of Pánípat, 173: advance of, 183.

MARKAR, the Armenian, commanded a special brigade, 154: sent to Patná, 155: drove the English out, 155: took English prisoners, 156.

MARKET DRAYTON, Clive sent to Mr. Burslem's school at, 10.

MARTIN, Francis, leader of the French traders on the Coromandel coast, 20, 21: died 1706, 20.

MASKELEYNE, Miss, married Clive, 74.

_Memoir of Captain Dalton_, quoted, 49_n_., 52_n_.

MERCHANT TAYLORS', Clive spent a short time at, 10.

MÍRAN, son of Mír Jafar, 119: arrived with an army at Murshidábád, 132: struck dead by lightning, 150.

MÍR ASAD, appointed Diwán in place of Chánda Sáhib, 24: taken prisoner by the Maráthás, 25.

MÍR JAFAR, in command of Siráj-ud-daulá's forces, 79: joined Clive, 86: quarrelled with Siráj-ud-daulá, 88: reconciliation, 88: swore fealty and to fight against Clive, 88, 91: his interview with Mr. Watts, 92: renounced Watts as a spy, 92: threatened to destroy the English, 92: favourable despatch from, 94: position of his troops at Plassey, 97: his interview with Siráj-ud-daulá, 100: lingering of his troops, 103: requested an interview with Clive, 105: escorted to the camp to be proclaimed Súbahdár, 107: his conditions and agreements with Clive, 107-8: noble family in Bihár, 109: officer of Alí Vardi Khán, 109: married Alí Vardi Khán's sister, 109: Bakshí of the army, 109: took Calcutta, 109: his meeting with Clive, 110: went to Murshidábád, 111: received Clive, 111: proclaimed Súbahdár, 112: applied to Clive for assistance, 115, 121: his army at Rájmahál, 116: attempt to coerce Bihár, 116-8: met Clive, 116: at Patná, 117: marched with Clive to Bárh, 118: returned to Murshidábád, 118: treasury exhausted, 121: conferred the jágír of the Zamíndárí on Clive, 123: forced to resign, 153: to reside under English protection, 153: displaced by Mír Kásim, 153: restored by the English, 158, 159: his death, 159, 160: bequeathed money to Clive, 178: formation of Lord Clive's Fund, 178.

MÍR KÁSIM, son-in-law of Mír Jafar, 119, 152: envoy of Mír Jafar, 152: wished to succeed Míran, 152: his bribery successful, 152: Mír Jafar to be displaced by, 152: proceeded to Patná, 153: installed as Súbahdár, 153: good ruler, 153: removed his fortress to Mungír, 153: reformed his army, 154: abolished transit duties, 155: prepared for war, 155: his army under Markar set out for Patná, 155: drove the English away, 155: sent Samru to Baksar, 156: intercepted the English and beat them completely, 156: defeated at Kátwá, 156: defeated at Gheriá, 156: on the fall of Patná, took refuge at Oudh, 157: defeated at Baksar, 157: died at Delhi, 158.

MÍR MADAN, Siráj-ud-daulá's general, 97: killed at Plassey, 100.

MÍR MEHDÍ KHÁN, commanding Mír Jafar's troops, 155: went to Mungír to report to Mír Jafar, 155.

MOLITORE, Capt.-Lieut., at Council of War, 93.

MORÁRI RÁO, famous Maráthá soldier, left to guard Trichinopoli, 26: sent to help Clive at Arcot, 55: marched with Clive to Arni, 56: defeated the French, 57, 58: assisted Lawrence, 68.

MORSE, Mr., Governor of Madras, 15, 33: befriended Clive, 15: declined proposal from the French Governor that the two settlements should preserve neutrality, 33: demanded in vain for protection from Anwar-ud-dín, 35.

MOSES, Mr. Levy, mentioned in the account of the complaint of the assault of Mr. Fordyce against Clive, 14.

MUGHAL DYNASTY receives a blow from which it never rallied, 16, 85, 173: high-road from Húglí to Patná, 90.

MUGHAL, Great, called on Clive to help repress the rebellion of his son, 123.

MUHAMMAD ALÍ, forced to flee to Trichinopoli, 45: rival of Chánda Sáhib in the Deccan, 45: at Trichinopoli, 51: his treasury exhausted, 51.

MUHAMMAD RÍZA KHÁN, nominated Deputy-Nawáb, 161, 168.

MUHAMMAD SHÁH, Emperor of Delhi, 30: died, 44.

MUIR, Captain, at Council of War, 93.

MUNGÍR, Mír Kásim removed his capital to, 153: Sir Robert Fletcher at, 187: mutiny at, 187-8.

MUNRO, Sir Hector, his victory at Baksar, 157: occupied Benares, Chanár and Allahábád, 157: overran Oudh, 157: occupied Lucknow and Faizábád, 157: defeated enemy at Karra and Kálpi, 157: Nawáb-Wazír of Oudh surrendered himself to, 157.

MURÁDBÁGH, palace of, Clive at, 111.

MURSHIDÁBÁD, capital of Siráj-ud-daulá, 78, 85: bankers and merchants of, join Clive, 86: Mír Jafar's interview with Mr. Watts at, 92: Clive entered, 111: treasury of, granted money to Clive, 117: Clive at, 171.

MURTIZÁ ALÍ, Governor of Vellore, 27: poisoned his brother-in-law, 27: proclaimed himself Nawáb, 27: his flight, 27: present at the royal wedding, 29: sudden disappearance, 30: suspected murderer of the young Prince, 30.

MUZAFFAR JANG, claimed succession to the Deccan, 44: Governor of Bíjapur, 44: enlisted service of Maráthás, 44: proclaimed himself Súbahdár of the Deccan, 45: marched to Trichinopoli, 46: at Tanjore, 46, 47: retreated on Pondicherry, 47: taken prisoner, 47: released, 47: acknowledged Súbahdár, 47: slain on his way to Aurangábád, 47.

MYSORE, an independent territory, 17: sent an army to assist Muhammad Alí, 54: assisted Lawrence at Trichinopoli, 68.

NADÍR SHÁH, invasion of, 16, 17, 25, 30, 85.

NEGAPATAM, squadron cruised off, 34.

NAPIER'S, Sir W., _Peninsular War_, quoted, 60_n_.

_Narrative_, Sir Eyre Coote's, quoted, 96_n_., 103_n_.

NASÍR JANG, son of Nizám-ul-Múlk, succeeded in Southern India, 30, 44: slain by his own levies, 47.

NEWCASTLE, Duke of, 143.

NEWCASTLE, Dowager Duchess of, sold Claremont to Clive, 202.

NIZÁM-UL-MÚLK, title granted to the family of Chin Kílich Khán, 17: Nawáb of the Karnátik, 18: Súbahdár of the Deccan, 23: objected to the appointments in the Karnátik made by Saádat-ullá-Khán, 23: gave the Maráthás permission to attack Trichinopoli, 25: entered Arcot with a large army, 28: marched on to Trichinopoli, 28: compelled the Maráthás to yield, 28: proclaimed his own commander Khojá Abdullah to be Nawáb of the Karnátik, 28: Nawáb poisoned, 28: he appointed Anwar-ud-dín, provisionally, and to act as guardian to Saiyud Muhammad, 28: died, 44.

NORTH, Lord, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 197: First Lord of the Treasury, 198: his Bill, 200-1.

'NORTHERN CIRCARS,' territory of the Deccan, 17.

NUJM-UD-DAULÁ, Nawáb-Názim, 172.

OMAR BEG, sent to escort Mír Jafar to Clive's camp, 107.

ORME, Mr., quoted, 20_n_., 30, 81_n_., 95_n_., 96_n_., 103_n_., 109_n_., 111_n_.

OUDH, overtures of Siráj-ud-daulá to the Nawáb-Wazír of, 88: Nawáb-Wazír of, threatened rebellion against Mír Jafar, 121: Nawáb-Wazír of, protects and aids Mír Kásim, 157: throws himself on the mercy of the English, 157, 159: Clive's dealings with Nawáb-Wazír of, 171, 173-8.

PAICHANDA, taken by Clive, 73.

PALMER, Captain, at Council of War, 93.

PALMYRAS, Cape, 80.

PALTÍ, town on the Kásimbázár river, 91.

PÁNÍPAT, battle of, mentioned, 16, 173.

PARADIS, sent by Dupleix to relieve Madras, 37: entered Madras, 38.

PARKER, John Neville, tried by court-martial, 189: reinstated, 189.

PARSHAW, Capt.-Lieut., at Council of War, 93.

PATNÁ, capital of Bihár, Clive accompanied Mír Jafar to, 117: Clive entered and subdued, 123: Mír Jafar conferred jágír on Clive at, 123: Patná stormed, 151: English plunders at, 155: Mír Kásim died at, 158.

PEACE OF PARIS, Clive voted against, 145.

PEERAGE, Clive raised to an Irish, 143.

_Peninsular War_, by Sir W. Napier, quoted, 60_n_.

PEYTON, Commodore, commanded squadron on Commodore Barnett's death, 34: cruised off Negapatam, 34: sailed for Trincomalee, 34.

PIGOT, Mr., sent with provisions, 49.

PITT, Mr. (afterwards Lord Chatham), Secretary of State, 139: Clive's letter to, 139: Clive describes Míran as unfit to succeed, 139, 150: points urged in the letter, 140: Pitt unable to answer the letter, 141: Pitt's opinion of Clive, 141: resigned, 143: Lord Privy Seal, 197: resigned on account of ill health, 197.

PLASSEY, army recalled by Clive from, 84: Siráj-ud-daulá sent an army to, 88: Clive's army reached, 94: battle of, 94-106, 183: spoils of Plassey, 107-17: effects of the spoils, 136.

PONDICHERRY, French settlement, 18: French squadron anchored off, 34: Dumas, Governor of, 25: siege of, 39-41: English officials from Madras sent as prisoners to, 38: siege of, 39: armies of Chánda Sáhib and Muzaffar Jang retreated on, 47: Law distinguished at siege of, 61.

PRAGMATIC SANCTION, England upholder of, 31.

PROPRIETORS, Court of, 145-7.

PURNIAH, Rájá of, rebelled against Mír Jafar, 114-5: went with Clive to Murshidábád to make peace with Mír Jafar, 116.

RAGHUJÍ BHONSLA, leader of the Maráthás, 25.

RÁJÁ DULÁB RÁM, joined Clive, 86: position of his troops at Plassey, 97: treacherously advised Siráj-ud-daulá to flee from Plassey to Murshidábád, 101: Finance Minister, 107, 114: retired to his palace, 114: refused all intercourse with Mír Jafar, 114: reconciliation with Mír Jafar, 117, 168.

RÁJÁ SÁHIB, son of Chánda Sáhib, in command at North Arcot, 54: joined by the French, 54: siege of Arcot, 55: retreated to Vellore, 55: defeated at Arni, 57-8: took Punamallu, 62: repaired damage at Kanchípuram, 62: encamped at Vendalúr, 62-3: quitted Vendalúr, 63: in ambush at Káveripák, 64: remarkable battle of Káveripák, 64-6: defeated by Clive, 66: retreated to Seringham, 68.

RÁJMAHÁL, Siráj-ud-daulá discovered hiding at, 112: Mír Jafar and Clive at, 116.

RIO, Clive delayed for nine months at, 12: Clive picked up a little Portuguese at, 12.

RUMBOLD, Captain, at Council of War, 92.

SAÁDAT-ULLÁ KHÁN, Nawáb of the Karnátik, 23: died in 1732, 23: appointed Dost Alí, his nephew, to succeed, 23: Bakar Alí to be Governor of Vellore, 23: and Ghulám Husén or Chánda Sáhib to be Diwán afterwards, 23.

SAFDAR ALÍ, son of Dost Alí, sent to capture Trichinopoli, 24: proclaimed Nawáb, 25: persuaded Maráthás to advance on the Karnátik, 26: siege of Trichinopoli, 26: surrendered, 26: sent his family to Madras, 27: took refuge at Vellore, 27: poisoned by his brother-in-law, 27: his son proclaimed Nawáb by the army, 27.

SAIYUD MUHAMMAD KHÁN, son of Safdar Alí, proclaimed Nawáb, 27: Anwar-ud-dín appointed his guardian, 28: murdered, 30.

SALÁBAT JANG, proclaimed Súbahdár on the death of Muzaffar Jang, 48.

SALLUSTIAN MOTTO, quoted, 16.

SALT MONOPOLY, 164, 165.

SAMIÁVERAM, occupied by Clive, 68: battle at, 69-72: Clive's victory, 73, 183, 211.

SAMRU, Armenian, in command of a special brigade, 153-4: sent to Baksar, 156.

SARFARÁZ, son of, at Dháká, in rebellion against Mír Jafar, 115.

SÁTÁRA, Chánda Sáhib, prisoner at, 26, 31: Muzaffar Jang proceeded to, 44.

SAUNDERS, Mr., Governor of Fort St. David, 49: sent Clive under Mr. Pigot to take provisions to Trichinopoli, 49: gave Clive his captaincy, 50: sent him to Devikota, 50.

SCOTT, Colonel, nominated Commander, with Clive as second, 77: his death, 77.

SCRAFTON, Mr., sent to escort Mír Jafar to Clive's camp, 107: informed Aminchand of false document, 113: appointed Supervisor, 199: _Letters_, quoted, 160_n_.

SELECT COMMITTEE appointed, 147, 161, 191: opposition of, 166.

SERINGHAM, island to which French retreated from Trichinopoli, 68, 69.

SÉT, banking-house of the Sét family, 168.

SHÁH ALÍM, troops of, repulsed the invasion of Bihár, 153: installed Mír Kásim as Súbahdár, 153: Clive's dealing with, 171: his capital occupied by the Afgháns, 171: meeting with Clive at Allahábád, 174.

SIRÁJ-UD-DAULÁ, Súbahdár, 78: seized factory at Kásimbázár, 78: marched to Calcutta, 78: took possession, 78: Black Hole of Calcutta, 78-9: Murshidábád capital of, 78, 85: grandson of Alí Vardi Khán, 85: overtures to Bussy at Haidarábád, 87: to the Maráthás, 87: to Delhi, 88: to Nawáb-Wazír of Oudh, 88: quarrelled with Mír Jafar, 88: reconciliation with Mír Jafar to fight against Clive, 88: sent his army to Kásimbázár, 88: Clive sent declaration of war to, 91: at Plassey, 95: fled to Murshidábád, 101, 112: discovered hiding at Rájmahál, 112: made over to Mír Jafar, 112: interview with Mír Jafar, 112: stabbed, 112.

SIVAJÍ, built a fort at Gheriá, 77.

SMITH, Captain F., 187: at Mungír, 187.

SMITH, Colonel, 186: commanding at Surájpur, 186: nominated Commander-in-chief by Clive, 191.

SMITH, Major, 186: commanding at Allahábád, 186: arrested officers, 186.

STANHOPE, Earl, quoted, 192, 209, 210 and _n_., 211: _History of England_, 202_n_.

STANLEY, Mr., proposed an amendment in the attack against Clive, 208.

ST. FRAIS, Mons., commanding French at Plassey, 96: formerly member of Council of Chandranagar, 96: commenced action at Plassey, 98: remained when Siráj-ud-daulá fled, 101: met by Kilpatrick, 102: retreated, 103: his final resistance and death, 104.

STERLING, Mr., private school in Hertfordshire, where Clive went on leaving Merchant Taylors', until he was nominated writer in the service of the East India Company, 10.

STYCHE, Robert Clive born at, 9.

SÚBAH, province, 17, 166, 177.

SÚBAHDÁR, chief of a súbah or province, 17: Nizám-ul-Múlk, Súbahdár of the Deccan, 23: on his death struggles for succession, 44-7: Alí Vardi Khán, Súbahdár of Bengal, Bihár and Orissa, 85: Siráj-ud-daulá succeeded him, 85: attempts to dethrone the Súbahdár, 86.

SULIVAN, Mr. Lawrence, Chairman of Court of Directors, 144: enemy of Clive, 144, 203: excluded Clive from seat in the India House, 145: elected at Court of Proprietors, 145: his candidates for second election defeated, 147.

SUMNER, Mr., accompanied Clive to Calcutta, 148, 159.

SURÁJPUR, Colonel Smith stationed at, 186.

SYKES, accompanied Clive back to Calcutta, 148, 159: agent at Murshidábád, 166: member of Select Committee, 191.

TACITUS, quoted, 139.

TANJORE, troops sent from Fort St. David to help the ex-Rájá, 42.

THOMÉ, St., battle at, 37.

THURLOW, Attorney-General, supported Burgoyne in his attack against Clive, 205.

TÍMERÍ, Clive's victory at, 53: Clive takes the fort of, 56.

_Transactions in India_, quoted, 156 and _n_.

TRAVANCORE, independent territory, 17.

TRICHINOPOLI, kingdom claimed by the Nawábs of the Karnátik, 18: death of the ruler of, 24: captured by Dost Alí, 24: Chánda Sáhib, Governor of, 24: taken by the Maráthás, 25: siege of, 26: surrender of, 26: yielded by the Maráthás to Nizám-ul-Múlk, 28: Clive escorted troops on their way to, 49: sent with Major Lawrence to report from, 50: besieged by Chánda Sáhib, 51: Law in command of French troops and sipáhís before Trichinopoli, 61.

TRINCOMALEE, the English squadron sailed away from the French to, 34.

UNDWÁ NALA, taken by Major Adams, 157.

UTÁTUR, d'Auteuil at, 68.

VANSITTART, successor to Clive, 136, 149: his character, 149-50: bribed by Mír Kásim, 152: forced Mír Jafar to resign, 153: appointed Supervisor, 199.

VELLORE, Safdar Alí took refuge at, 27: Murtizá Alí, Governor at, 27.

VENDALÚR, French encampment at, 62-3: French quit, 63: Clive at, 64.

VERDACHELAM, the point to which Clive accompanied the troops with provisions for Trichinopoli, 49.

VERELST, appointed Governor by Clive, 190, 196, 198.

VIZAGAPATAM, Colonel Forde at, 122.

VIZIADRUG, harbour of, 77.

VIZIANAGRAM, letter to Clive demanding troops from Rájá of, 121.

VOLKONDA, Clive sent under Captain Gingens to, 48: surrender of d'Auteuil at, 73.

_Voyage and Historical Narrative_, by Ives, quoted, 94_n_., 96_n_.

WAGGONNER, Captain, at Council of War, 93.

WALSH, sent with Watts to Madhupur, 111: Clive's secretary, 140: charged with the letter to Mr. Pitt, 140.

WANDIWASH, Saiyud Muhammad Khán and his mother sent to, 27.

_War in India_, by Cambridge, quoted, 43_n_.

WATSON, Admiral, in command of squadron, 78: destroyed Gheriá, 78: sent to the Húglí, 80: arrived at Falta, 80-1: anchored at Maiápur, 81: nominated Major Eyre Coote, Governor of Calcutta, 82: took possession himself, 82: handed keys to Drake, 82: objected to sign false document regarding Aminchand's demand, 87.

WATTS, Mr., English agent at Kásimbázár, 86, 87: at Kalná, 92: his letter to Clive with news of Mír Jafar's faithlessness, 92: denounced as spy, 92: sent to Madhupur, 111.

WEDDERBURN, Mr., able lawyer and ally of Clive, 198: Solicitor-General, 203.

WELLESLEY, Marquess, mentioned, 122.

WHEELER, Talboys, quoted, 177 and _n_., 178_n_.

WHITE TOWN, a division of Madras, 19.

WILSON, Prof. H. H., quoted, 37_n_.

WILSON, Commodore, sent by Clive to demand apology from the Dutch, failing which, to attack their squadron, 130: Dutch refusal and consequent attack, 130: completely defeated Dutch, 131.

WRITER in the service of the East India Company, duties of, 12: Clive appointed, 10, 11, 12: not congenial to Clive, 12.

YÁR LUTF KHÁN, a commander in Siráj-ud-daulá's army, 86: offered to join Clive to displace Siráj-ud-daulá, and to become himself Súbahdár, 86, 107: position of his troops at Plassey, 97.

ZAMÍNDÁRÍ, conferred on Clive by Mír Jafar, 123.