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Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official by William Sleeman

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Dacoits, Sleeman's books on, xxxiii, xxxv, 89.
_Daityas_, bad spirits, 10.
Dalhousie, Lord, xxv; annexation policy of, 187 n.
Damoh, town, 76.
Daniyal, Prince, 334.
Dara Shikoh, Prince, 272-4, 511-13 n.
Darbhanga, 51.
_Dargah_, defined, 568 n.
Dasahara ceremonies, 175 n., 241 n., 293, 296.
Dasan river, 108.
Dasaratha, Raja, 382.
Datiya, Raja of, 193, 221, 226.
_Datura_, poisoning, 82-6.
Daulatabad, 490.
Daulat Rao Sindhia, 563.
Davis, Mr., gallant defence by, 474 n.
Dawar Baksh, Prince, 334.
De Boigne, _see_ Boigne, General de.
Deccan, geology of, 97 n., 114 n,; kingdoms of, 285; early history
of, 457.
Deeg, _see_ Dig.
Delhi, territories, 420 n., 448, 459 n.; province, 459 n.; defended
by Burn, 421; old city of, 486-503; Sultans of, 488 n.; new city of,
504-30; Jami Masjid at, 514; Moti Masjid at, 514 n.; palace at, 515-
19; peacock throne at, 517; books about, 519 n.; taken by Timur, 529.
Denudation, sub-aerial, 138 n.
Deori, town, 124, 129.
De Thevenot, _see_ Thevenot, de.
_Devas_, good spirits, 10.
Devi, goddess, 7, 593.
Devil, Muhammadan myth of, 537.
Devils, 223 n.
Dhamoni, 110.
Dhandela Rajputs, 187.
_Dhanuk_ jag festival, 173.
_Dharmsala_, defined, 568 n.
_Dhau_ (_Lythrum fructuosum_) tree, 237.
Dhimar caste, 76.
Dholpur State, 272, 302-10.
Diamonds, great, 290.
Dig (Deeg), garden at, 364; battle at, 421, 566 n.
_Dinai_, slow poison, 142.
Dinapore, 341.
Discipline, military, xxxiii, 615-40.
Diseases, Hindoo notions about, 168.
Districts, civil, size of, 646 n.
_Diwan-i-Amm_, at Delhi, 515.
_Diwan-i-Khas_, at Delhi, 517.
_Diwani_, grant of, 500.
_Doab_ defined, 233 n.
Dost Muhammad, 291.
Drowning, suicide by, 219.
Dubois, _Hindu Manners_, xix.
Dudrenec, Monsieur, 603.
Durgavati, queen, 190.
Dutch factory at Agra, 335.
Dyce, Colonel, 611.
Dyce-Sombre, Mr., 595, 610.

Education, of young nobles, 256 n.; Muhammadan and English, 523, 524
n.
Egypt, expedition to, 634, 640 n.
Electricity, 311.
Elephant-drivers, 50.
Elichpur (Ilichpur), 156.
Ellis, Mr., at Patna, 597.
Ellora, 8 n.; 653.
Epidemics, 161-72.
Epilepsy, 221.
Eran, pillar at, 55.
_Erythrina arborescens_, or coral-tree, 74 n.
Etawah, Thuggee in, 652.
Evil eye, 168.
Exogamy, 144 n.
Exorcisers, 168.

Fairs, 1.
Fakirs, 370, 591, 592 n.
Famine, of 1833, 148; policy, 150; in Malwa, 441 n.
Fanshawe, H. C., on Delhi, 520 n.
Farhad, poet, 136.
Faridabad (Faridpur), 479, 480 n.
Farid-ud-din Ganj Shakar, saint, 507 n.
Faringia (Feringheea), Thug, 78.
Farrukhsiyar, emperor, 275 n.
Fathpur-Sikri, 351-8.
_Fatwa_, defined, 200 n., 536.
Fergusson, on Indian architecture, 359 n.
Fertility, diminution of, 413 n.,415.
Feudal System, 145, 578 n.
_Ficus religiosa_, pipal tree, 205 n.
Filose, Jean Baptiste, 115 n., 293, 296.
Finch, traveller, quoted, 324 n.
Firozabad at Delhi, 497 n.
Firozpur, 420, 459.
Firoz Shah Tughlak, deported Thugs, 652.
Fish, Persian order of, 135, 137; eating, 307.
Flattery, 243.
Flax plant, 195.
Flogging in army, 616-22, 637.
Fontenne, de, maiden name of Lady Sleeman, xxiii.
Forest department, 451 n.
Forester, Lady, 612 n.
Fortresses, insalubrity of, 111.
Fossils, 98, 121.
_Francolinus vulgaris_, black partridge, 44 n.
Fraser, Mr. C., xxiii, 89 n.; Mr. Hugh, xxiv; Major-General, 89 n.;
Mr. W., murder of, 420, 458-75.
Frederick the Great, 625, 629.
Fullerton, Dr., 597.
Funeral obsequies, 620 n.
Furse, Mrs., sister of author, xxv n., xxx.
Futtehpore Seekree, see Fathpur-Sikri.
Fyzabad, 457 n., 641.

Gabriel, angel, 37.
Gaikwar of Baroda, 286.
Galen, 339, 524.
Gandak river, 121 n.
Ganges river, 6, 17; water, 141 n., 588, 594.
Gardiner (Gardner), Colonel, 346.
Garha, Rani of, 56, 73.
Garha Kota, 293.
Garha Mandla, xxxii, 190.
_Garpagri_, hail-charmer, 60 n,.
Gaur, 330 n.
Gauri Sankar, 6, 54.
Geronimo Veroneo, 320 n.
Ghazni, 454 n.
Ghiyas-ud-din, Khwaja, 328.
Ghorapachhar rivers, 298.
Ghosts, 221-6.
Ghulam Kadir, 338 n.
Gipsies, 535, 557 n.
God, ninety-nine names of, 323 n.
Gohad, Rana of, 270-2, 302.
Golconda, fall of, 286 n.; kingdom of, 458 n.
Gonds, xxxii, 68, 102, 128, 221, 384.
Gondwana rocks, 231 n.
Gosains, 218, 370, 591, 592 n.
Govardhan, 337,371-83.
Gram, 197, 198 n., 227, 414 n.
Grasses, 124.
Groves, 260, 433-41, 444, 565.
Guinea-worm, 77.
Gujar caste, 192, 469 n.
Gujarat, 149, 441.
_Gulistan_, quoted, 401.
Guns made in India, 241.
Gurkhas (Gorkhas), 350, 625 n.
Guru Govind, 477 n.
Gwalior State, 258-70, 292, 294, 299; city, 262; fortress, 266-71.

Hafiz Rahmat Khan, 599.
Haji Begam, 511 n.
_Hakim_ defined, 107 n.
Hamida Bano Begam, 511 n.
Hansi, 604 n., 605 n.
Hanuman, monkey-god, 27, 300, 371, 374.
Hardaul, Lala, legend of, 162-5, 232.
Hardinge, Lord (Viscount), letter to, xxix n.
Hasan, 483 n.
Hastings, Lord (Marquis of), 229, 292, 321, 381 n.
Haunted villages, 221-6.
Hawking, 237.
Hay in Bundelkhand, 124.
Herbert, Sir Thomas, quoted, 332 n.
Hervey, _Some Records of Crime_, xxvi.
High Courts, 555 n.
Hiliya (Haliya) Pass, 444 n.
Himalaya, v, xxiv.
Hinduism, 176.
Hippocrates, 339, 524.
Hirtius, nom de plume of author, xxxi.
Holi, festival, 204, 483 n.
Holkar dynasty, 286, 381.
Horal (Hodal), town, 426.
Hornets, 56.
Human sacrifice, 46 n., 101.
Humayun, emperor, tomb of, 511.
Husain. 483 n.
Hyderabad Contingent, 156 n.
Hyphasis (Bias) river, 3, 165.

Iblis, the devil, 538.
Ibn Batuta, traveller, 488 n.
Ibrahim Lodi, Sultan, 269.
_Id-ul-Bakr_ festival, 163 n.
Iltutmish, Sultan, 269; buildings of, 492, 494 n., 495 n., 497, 500;
tomb of, 501.
Imam Mashhadi, tomb of, 503.
Imam-ud-din Ghazzali, 341 n., 524. Imperial Service Troops, 280 n.
Impressment, 184, 628.
India, people of, vi; population of, 38 n.
Indore State, 286, 292.
Indra, god, 2, 10, 33.
Industries, 159 n.
Infanticide, 28.
Inheritance, law of, 578.
Invalid establishment, 640.
Iron mines, 93, 230; pillar of Delhi, 498.
Islam in Lower Bengal, 424 n.
Isle of France (Mauritius), 311, 620 n., 622.
Itimad-ud-daula, 326-9.

Jabalpur, _see_ Jubbulpore.
Jack-tree, 225.
Jagannath, shrine of, 589.
_Jagirdars_, 181.
Jahanara Begam, tomb of, 510.
Jahangir, (1) emperor, 111 n., 333, 452, 568 n., mother of, 348 n.;
birth of, 351, 355; (2) Mirza, tomb of, 509.
Jain statues at Gwalior, 267 n.
Jaipur State, xxxii, 503.
Jaitpur, Raj of, 193 n.
Jalal-ud-din, Firoz Shah Khilji, 489.
Jalaun State, 185, 193.
Jamaldehi Thugs, 82.
Jang Bahadur, Sir, 598 n.
Jasmine, 33.
Jats (Jats), 307, 380 n.; outrages of, 354 n.; and Rajputs, 476 n.
Java, conquest of, 619, 640 n.
Jaxartes, river, 532.
Jesuit missionaries, 337 n.
Jesus, inscription quoting, 354, 504.
Jeswant Rao Holkar, 165, 421, 474 n.
Jhajjar, Nawab of, 474.
Jhansi State, 185, 193 n., 209-19.
_Jhirni_, Thug signal, 81.
Jodh Bai, tomb of, 348.
Johila river, 14, 16.
Johnson (Johnstone), Begam, 580.
Jubbulpore (Jabalpur), xxiii, 1, 29, 58, 71.
Julius Caesar, Bishop, 594.

Kabul, mission of Burnes to, 417 n.
Kailas temple, 8 n.
_Kalas_ custom, 179.
_Kali_ age, 522 n.
Kali, goddess, 141 n.
_Kalpa Briksha_ tree, 74.
Kam Baksh, Prince, 274 n.
Kanauj, ancient city, 454.
Kandeli, Thug village, xxii.
Karauli State, 293.
Karbala, battle of, 483 n.
Kartikeya, god, 259 n.
Kasim, Mir (Kasim Ali Khan), 596-9.
Katra Pass, 127, 445 n.
_Kaukabas_, 136.
Kedarnath temple, 592 n.
Kerahi (Kerai) Pass, 445 n.
Khajuraho, temples at, 193 n.
Khalifate, the, 483 n.
Khan Azam, 333.
_Kharita_ defined, 134 n.
_Kharwa_ cloth, 228 n.
Khusru, (1) Parviz, King of Persia, 135; (2) Prince, son of Jahangir,
333; (3) poet, tomb of, 507.
Khwaja Ghias-ud-din, 326.
Kohinur diamond, 288-91, 513 n.
Koil, battle of, 566 n.
Konkan (Concan), 225.
Koran, origin of, 481.
Kosi, 424.
_Kotwal_ defined, 154 n.
Krishna, legends of. 11, 371-5.
Kumara, god, 259 n.
Kunbi caste, 381 n.
Kurmi caste, 130.
Kutb Minar, 492-7, 504; mosque, 497.
Kutb-ud-din, (1) Khan, 330; (2) Sultan, 494n.; (3) Khwaja, saint of
Ush, 494 n., 500 n.

Lachhman, brother of Rama, 382.
Lachhmi Bai, Rani of Jhansi, 193 n., 220 n.
Lahar fort, 270 n.
Lake, Lord, 359, 377, 380, 421, 561, 643.
Lakes, artificial, 63, 178.
Land-revenue, 61 n., 63 n., 68 n.
Laswari, battle of, 116, 566 n.
Laterite, 92.
_Lathyrus_, poisonous species of, 104.
Leprosy, 215 n.
Le Vaisseau, Monsieur, 603-10.
Linseed, 195.
Liverpool, Earl of, 580.
Lodhi caste, 130 n.
Looting shops, custom of, 294.
Lotus, 109 n.
Lowis, Captain, xxxiii.
Lucknow, author Resident at, xxv; an ancient city, 457 n.
Ludiana, 3, 290.

Macaulay, 341 n., 547 n.
Madras system of land settlement, 576.
_Mahabharata_, 5, 10, 103 n., 522.
Mahadaji (Madhoji) Sindhia, 271, 563.
Mahadeo (Siva), god, 7, 8, 9, 45 n., 103 n., 141 n.; oracle of, 484;
sandstones, 102.
_Mahi Maratib_, 135, 137 n.
Maharajpur, battle of, xxv, 271 n.
Mahmud of Ghazni, 454.
Mahoba, town, 189, 193 n.
Maihar, Raja of, 127, 593.
Maille, Claudius, 560.
Makwanpur, fort, 598.
Malcolm, Sir John, 229.
_Malguzari_ tenure, 144.
Malwa, province, 149, 238, 239 n., 451.
Mandesar, Thug burying-place, xxii.
_Mansabdars_, 283 n.
Man Singh, (1) Raja of Gwalior, 276 n.; (2) Raja of Jaipur (Amber),
333.
Mansur Ali Khan, tomb of, 506, 544 n.
Manucci, on Akbar, 325 n., 354 n.
Manuscript works of author, xxxvii.
Marathas, 294; defeated, 421 n., 566 n.
Marble Rocks, 1; quarries, 318.
Marriage, of trees, 32, 122, 143; of Hindoos, 37-40.
Maryam-uz-Zamani, queen of Akbar, 348 n.
Mashhad (Meshed), 288.
Material progress of India. 414 n.
Mathura (Muttra), 383.
Mau (Mhow), town, 247.
Mauritius, 311 n., 620 n.
_Mauza_ defined, 60 n.
Medicine, systems of, 107, 571.
Meerut, military and civil station, xxiv, 80, 544 n., 567-70, 579;
sacked by Timur, 529.
Megpunnaism (Megpunnia Thugs), xxxii, 91, 593 n.
Metcalfe, Sir Charles, 347, 461, 563 n.
Meteors, 34-7.
Mewatis, 420.
Mihrauli, tombs at, 500 n.
Mihr-un-nisa, 328 n.; _see_ Nur Jahan.
Military discipline, xxxiii, 615-40.
_Minars_, 492 n.
Mir Jumla, _see_ Amir Jumla.
Miracles, 337.
Mirzapur, 250, 445.
_Mishkat-ul-Masabih_, 35.
Missionaries, Jesuit, 337 n.
Mogul (Moghal, Mughal), defined, 80 n.; raids, 490.
Molony, Report on Narsinghpur, xxxvii.
Monastic orders, 592.
Monghyr (Munger), 642.
Monkeys, 383.
Monson's retreat, 474, 566 n.
Months, Hindoo, l.
_Moti Masjid_ (mosque), 322.
Muazzam, Prince, 274 n.
Muhammad, Ghori, Sultan, 269 n.; Shah, 291 n., 518; tomb of, 510; son
of Isa, architect, 319 n.; bin Tughlak, Sultan, 457 n., 487 n.
Muhammadabad, in old Delhi, 487.
Muhammadan schools, 480; year, 482; prayers, 489.
Muharram celebrations, 482.
Mumtaz-i-Mahall, 315, 325.
_Music of Hindostan_, by Strangways, 561 n.

Nabha, chief of, 476.
Nadir, Shah, 288, 510, 516.
Nagaudh (Nagod), 33 n.
Nagpur (Nagpore), Bhonslas of, 286, 292.
Nahan, Raja of, 209 n.
Najaf Khan, 599.
Nana Sahib, 381 n.
Narsinghpur, xxii, xxxvii, 167.
Nasir-ud-din of Tus, 341, 524.
Nepal, war with, xxi, 122, 598, 636.
Nerbudda (Narbada) river, 2, 5, 14, 17, 18, 203.
Newspapers, 640.
News-writers, 249 n., 388 n.
_Nilgai_, a kind of antelope, 244.
Nineveh, history of, 452.
_nisar_ coins, 479 n.
Nizamuddin Auliya, saint, 490-2, 507.
Noer, Count von, on Akbar, 324 n.
Norman-French formula, 475.
North-Western Provinces, 434 n.
Nur Jahan, 325 n., 329, 332, 568 n.
Nur Mahall, 325 n., 329, 332.

Oaths, 391.
Obsequies, funeral, 620 n.
Ochterlony, Sir David, 598 n., 635.
_Ocymum sanctum_, basil or _tulasi_ plant, 121 n.
Og (Uj), King, legend of, 374.
O'Halloran, Major-General Sir Joseph, 344 n.
Omar ('Umar), Khalif, 199 n.
Omens, taken by Thugs and robbers, 297, 651.
Opium department, 324 n.
Oracle of Mahadeo, 484.
Orchha, State and Raja of, 132, 139, 193 n., 251 n.
Orpheus, mosaic of, 516.
O'Shaughnessy, Dr. W. B., scientific publications of, 571 n.
Osman (Othman), Khalif, a Sunni, 48 n., 483 n.
Otaheite sugar-cane, 208.
Oudh (Oude), Sleeman's work in, xxiv-xxvii; _A Journey through_,
xxxvi; MS. history of reigning family of, xxxvii; infanticide in, 28
n.; Jamaldehi Thugs in, 82; recruits from, 146, 624; annexation of,
187 n.; disorder in, 248,252; Chief Commissioner of, 347 n.; Nawab
Wazirs of, 473 n.; magisterial powers in, 552 n.; capitals of, 641;
Thuggee in, 653.

Paintings, Indian, 379.
_Pakka_ defined, 435 n.
Palace at Delhi, 515.
Palwal, town, 452.
_Pan_, 216, 454.
Pandavas, 5.
Panipat, third battle of, 298 n.
Panjab (Punjab), annexation of, 478 n., 625 n.
Panj (Panch) Mahal tract, 124 n. Panna State and Raja, 95 n., 250 n.
Panther, 115.
Paoli, Mr., 600.
Paralysis, caused by eating _Lathyrus sativus_, 104.
Parents, murder of indigent, xxxii; reverence for, 254.
Pariahs, 120.
Parihar, Rajputs, 143.
Parmal, Chandel Raja, 189 n.
Partabgarh in Oudh, xxii, 248.
Partition, 278 n.
Partridge, black, 44, 118.
Parvati, goddess, 9, 141 n.
_Patel_ defined, 221.
'Pathan', as a misnomer, 488 n.
Patharia, town, 91.
Patiala, chief of, 476.
Patna, massacre of, 597.
Pawar Rajputs, 187, 189.
Pay of Indian army, 617, 622, 640.
Peacock throne, 517.
Peacocks, 259, 411.
Pensions of Indian army, 632, 640-4.
Perjury, 407, 412.
Permanent settlement, 64 n., 577 n.
Persian, order of the Fish, 135; wheel, 147.
Peshwas, the, 192, 236, 381 n.
_Phansigars_ = Tugs, xxxi.
_Phoceus baya_, weaver bird, 117 n.
Pilgrims, 588-94.
Pillars, monolithic, 493.
Pindharis, 130 n., 292-4, 297.
_Pipal_ tree, 205, 385, 442, 447, 566 n_.
Piper betel_, 216 n.
Pir Muhammad, heir of Timur, 534.
Plassey, battle of, 338 n.
Plato, 341, 524.
Poisoners, 82-6.
Police, Indian, 544-61, 647.
Political economy, 157, 160.
Popham, Major, 270.
Population of India, 38 n.
_Portax pictus, nilgai_ antelope, 244 n.
Portuguese at Agra, 336 n.
_Prayaschit_ defined, 215.
Predestination, 511.
Press-gang, 184 n.
Primogeniture, 180, 277, 578.
Prinsep, James, discoveries of, 493.
Prithi Raj, 498-500.
Processions, 168.
Property in land, 449 n.
Proprietors of land, 576.
Public spirit of Hindoos, xxxiii, 442-51.
_Puranas_, the, 10, 338 n.
Puri town, 589 n.
_Purohit_ defined, 140 n.
Purveyance system, 41-4.

Queen, river Nerbudda as a, 14.
Quinine, 107 n.

Raghugarh, Raja of, 293.
Rainbow myth, 35.
Raipur town, 72.
Rajputs, 144.
Rama and Sita, 10, 74, 174, 371, 376.
_Ramaseeana_, xxxi.
Ramayana, 484.
Ramesvaram (Ramisseram), 592 n.
_Ramlila_, 104.
Ramnagar, 25.
Rampur, Nawab of, 87, 649.
Ranjit Singh, (1) Maharaja of the Panjab, 291, 297; (2) Raja of
Bharatpur (Bhurtpore), 377, 380.
Ravan, 377.
Rawalpindi, military station, 545 n.
Razia, Sultan ('empress'), 501 n.
Reglioni (properly Regholini), General (Monsieur), 594.
Regulations, VII of 1822 and IX of 1833, 575 n.
Reinhard, Walter (Sombre), 596.
Rent Acts, 62 n.
'Resumption' of revenue-free lands, 564,
River thuggee, xxxiii, 652.
Riwa (Rewah) State, 24,
Roads, 301.
Roe, Sir Thomas, ambassador, 351, 452.
Rupee, value of, 77 n., 342 n., 583 n.
Ryotwar System, 576.

Saadat Ali Khan of Oudh, 473 n., 565.
Sacrifice, human, 46 n., 101.
Sadi (Sa'di), Shaikh, poet, 75, 401, 410, 524.
Sadr Amin, Subordinate Judge, 646 n.
Safdar Jang, tomb of, 507 n., 544 n.
Sagar (Saugor), 41, 92, 100, 161; and Nerbudda Territories, 57 n., 94
n., 110 n., 112 n.
_Salagrams_, ammonites, 121.
Saleur, Monsieur, 610.
Salim, Prince, 350; Shaikh, 350, 362 n., 354.
Salt manufacture, 260, 347 n., 428 n.
_Samadh_ defined, 570.
Samarkand, 530.
Samru (Sumroo), Begam, 504, 545; death of, 567; history of, 594-615;
character of, 613.
Samthar, Raja of, 191.
Sansias, criminal tribe, 234 n.
Sarasvati, consort of Brahma, 7 n.
Sardhana, 594-615.
Sassanians of Persia, 137.
Satara, Raja of, 286, 381.
Sati, _see_ Suttee.
Satpura, mountains, 52.
Scape-goat, 162-6.
Schools, Muhammadan, 480.
Science in India, 587.
Sebaste, city, 532.
Sects, Muhammadan, 49 n.
Secunderabad, military station, 545 n.
Seniority, promotion by, 622, 632.
'Settlements' of land revenue, 434 n., 575.
Shah Alam, 137 n., 338, 563 n.
Shahgarh, Raja of, 72, 114.
Shah Jahan, emperor, 314, 316, 320, 504, 510, 513, 560, 561 n.; Thugs
in reign of, 652; sons of, 273.
Shahjahanabad, or New Delhi, 504.
Shahryar, Prince, 334.
Shams-ud-din, Nawab, 420, 458-75.
Sharaf-ud-din, historian, 533.
Sher Afgan, 329-31.
Sher Khan (Shah), 270.
Sherwood, Dr., early writer on Thuggee, 653.
Shia sect, 48 n., 483 n.
Shihab-ud-din, Sultan, 269 n.
Shirin, queen, 136.
Shore, F. J., 44 n., 90; Sir John, 473 n., 605, 609.
Sikandar Lodi, Sultan, 357 n.
Sikandara (Secundra), Akbar's tomb at, 323, 354 n., 358 n.
Sikh government, 381.
Sikhs, history of, 477 n.
Sikri, 351; _see_ Fathpur-Sikri.
Simla, trip to Gungoolee from, xxxvii.
Sindh river, 258.
Sindhia family, 271 n., 286, 294, 381.
Sindhia's territory, 258; _see_ Gwalior State.
_Singhara_, or water-nut, 76.
Siraj-ud-daula, 581.
Sita Baldi Ramesar, 592.
Siva, god, 6, 7 n., 9, 45 n., 103 n., 141 n., 376 n., 588, 591.
Sivaji, 381.
Skanda, god, 259 n.
Skinner, Colonel, 463, 612 n.
Slavery in India, 282.
Sleeman, Captain J. L., xx, xxx, 652; Captain Philip, xxi; Lady
xxiii, xxxvi; Sir W. H., memoir of, xx-xxx; works of, xxxi-xxxvii, 89
n.; James, xxx; Henry Arthur, xxx; William Henry, xxx.
Small-pox, 169-72.
Smith, F. G., 90; B. W., on Akbar's tomb, 323 n.; on Fathpur Sikri,
351 n.
Society in India, 582.
Sombre, _see_ Samru.
Son river, 14, 16.
Spotted deer, 244.
Spry, Dr., works of, 99 n.
Statistics, falsified, 554 n.
Stephen, Carr, on Delhi, 520 n.
Subdivision of property, 432.
Succession to crown, 239.
Sugar-mills, 207-9.
Suicide, vow of, 103.
Sulaiman Shikoh, Prince, 272.
Sultans of Delhi, 488 n.
Sumroo, _see_ Samru.
Sunni sect, 48 n.
Supreme (Superior) Court, 555 n.
Suraj Mall, Raja, 364 n., 378, 567.
Survey myths, 201.
Suttee, 18-31, 47, 109.
Swallows, 353.
Sweepers, 45, 49.

Taboos, 134 n.
Taj, the, 312-21.
Tamarind tree, 566.
Tamerlane, _see_ Timur.
Tanda, town, 330.
Tansen, singer, 561, 562 n.
Tarmasharin, Moghal, 490, 507, 529, 535.
_Tasmabaz_ Thugs, 91.
Tavernier, traveller, 316, 320 n.
Taylor, Col. Meadows, _Confessions of a Thug_, 89 n., 653.
Taxation, indirect, 427; in England and India, 485.
Tehri, town, 132, 143.
Teignmouth, Lord, 473 n.
Telescope, 543.
_Thagi_, _see_ Thuggee and Thugs.
_Thanadars_, 547.
Thessalonica, massacre of, 402.
Thevenot, de, quoted, 335; described Thuggee, 652.
Thomas, George, adventurer, 603-8.
Thuggee, 77-91,650-3.
Thugs, venerate Nizamuddin, 491 n.; on the Begam's boundary, 545;
method of suppressing, 556 n.; disguised as ascetics, 592 n.
Tieffenthaler, Father, 336 n.
Tiger myths, 124-9.
Timur, sack of Delhi by, 497 n.; history of, 527-34.
Tonk, Nawab of, 66 n.
Tours, battle of, 513.
Trade, free, 160; Indian, 409 n.
Trap, Deccan, 97 n., 269 n.
Trees, marriage of, 32, 122, 143; sacred, 386 n.
Tughlak Shah, 486.
Tughlakabad, 486, 489.
Tulasi Das, poet, 123 n.
_Tulsi_ (_tulasi_) plant, 121.
Tus, or Mashhad, _q.v._, 341 n.

Uchahara State, 33, 148 n.
Uj (Og), legend of, 374.
Ujjain (Ujain), 146 n.
Ulwar (Alwar) State, xxxii.
'Uncovenanted' service, 426.
United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, 434 n.
United States, war with, 628 n.
Universities, Indian, 256 n.
_Urs_, defined, 568 n.
Ush in Persia, 494 n., 500 n.
Usman, _see_ Osman.

Vaccination, 171 n.
Vagrancy laws, 370.
Vaikuntha, heaven of Vishnu, 8.
Vegetius quoted, 626 n., &c. Veni-danam, offering of hair, 56 n.
Veracity, 383-411.
Village communities, 394.
Villages, 60.
Vindhya mountains, 62.
Vindhyan sandstones, 62 n.
Vishnu, god, 2, 7 n., 9, 141 n., 376 n., 588, 591.

Warora coalfield, 231 n.
Washermen, 45.
Water offerings, 141, 693.
Water-nut, or -chestnut, 76.
Watts, Governor, 581 n.
Wazir Ali of Oudh, 473.
Weaver-bird, 173 n.
Wellesley, Marquis, 473 n.
Wells, 363, 435-41; songs sung at, 561 n.
Western Provinces, defined, 574 n.
Wheat, blight on, 195.
Widow-burning, _see_ Suttee.
Widows, sold by auction, xxii; remarriage of, 26.
Wife, a duty of, 132 n.
Wilkinson, (1) Mr. L., and (2) Major, 89 n.
Wilton, Mr. John, 341 n.
Window-tax, 485.
Witchcraft, 68-73.
Wolf-children, xxxv.
Women, dress of, 18; offering of hair by, 56 n.; form of tomb of
Muhammadan, 510 n.; secret murders of, 561 n.

Yamaraja (Jamraj), 9.
Yudhisthira, 11, 522.

Zafaryab Khan, son of Sombre, 611.
Zalim Singh, freebooter, 129.
Zaman Shah, 289.
Zamindari tenure, 144.

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We do not know the women's names, but their voices are quite distinct. All are pregnant. But while the first woman awaits the birth of her baby with a moon-like serenity, the other two are not so lucky. One, whose previous pregnancies have failed to go to term, is experiencing a heartbreaking late miscarriage; the other is a young student whose accidental pregnancy will end in her child being put up for adoption.

Sylvia Plath's only play was never intended for the stage, being broadcast instead on BBC radio in August 1962. Less than six months later, Plath killed herself, but not before the burst of astonishing creative energy that produced her extraordinary, terrifying Ariel poems.

Anyone who knows Plath's poetry will see the connection between Three Women and Plath's subsequent poems, particularly in the way she talks about the agony of childbirth, the rush of love for this tiny alien being, and both the wonder and wounded rawness of motherhood. It is a beautiful piece, full of startling imagery that draws you in through the sheer intensity of its femaleness, and because it so precisely articulates the emotions that are often thought but seldom voiced by women - certainly not in the early 1960s - about men, motherhood and our relationship to our bodies.

It's been 20 years since there has been an attempt at a professional stage version and - in a theatre world that happily accepts the poetic offerings of Sarah Kane and Debbie Tucker Green, or the staged possibilities of The Waves, one of Plath's own inspirations for the piece, I see no reason why it shouldn't be brought to life. Sadly, it doesn't breathe here, in a production by Robert Shaw that is clearly a labour of love, but which never finds a way to give the internal a physical reality. Plath's poetry, like most babies, is more robust than it appears - and won't break if treated with a little less reverence and considerably more grit.

Instead, what we are offered is tinkling piano music, mournful mood lighting, an innocuous pale setting, as well as three perfectly good but indisputably ladylike performances that capture none of the wounded redness of Plath's poetry, and do her the disservice of making her sound bleached and somewhat prissy. It's a pity. What might have been a wonder ends up a mere curiosity.

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