Italic page numbers refer to illustrations.
Act of Union (1707) 33
Adam, Robert 207
Addiscombe, East India Company Military Seminary 19, 213
Agra 10, 116, 117–18, 118–19; see also Taj Mahal
Akbar I, Mughal Emperor 104; tomb 108
Akbar II, Emperor of Delhi, durbar procession 2–3, 36–7, 38
Alefounder, John 24
Allahabad, Treaty of (1765) 36
Allan, Alexander, Views in the Mysore Country 42
Alphonso VI, King of Portugal 64
Amiens, Treaty of (1802) 56
Anglo-Maratha Wars 40, 66, 89, 161
Anglo-Mysore Wars 26, 41–2, 94, 166–7, 170; see also Seringapatam, Battle of
Apsley House, London 167
Arjumand Banu (Mumtaz Mahal) 115
army, East India Company 45–9; see also Bengal Army
Asaf-ud-Daula, Nawab of Awadh 145–6, 146
Asiatick Society of Bengal 175–6, 184
Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor 33, 122–4, 136
Azim al-Daula, Nawab of the Carnatic 38, 39
Bahubali (Jain deity) 173
Baird, Sir David 42
Banks, Thomas 193
Barrackpore 76, 87–9, 87, 88, 126
Benares 77, 104, 118–26, 123, 124, 127–31
Bengal Army, mutiny (1857–8) 104, 216–17
Bentinck, Lord William Cavendish 38, 39, 61, 213
Bernier, François, Travels in the Mogol Empire 115, 118
Best, James 207; New Government House (c.1803) 210, 211
Bhagavadgita 175
Bhawani Das 182
Bogle, George 101
Bombay 64–70; Bombay (Lambert and Scott) 65, 66; Bombay Views (Wales) 66, 66–7, 70; ‘Islands of Bombay and Salsette’ (Barth) 68–9; see also Elephanta Island
Boriah, Kavali Venkata 170
Bosanquet, Jacob 56
Brown, Edward 134
Brown, Mather 42
Buchanan, Claudius 216
Buchanan, Francis 187
Buxar, Battle of (1764) 36, 140, 146
Byrne, William, ‘A View of Calcutta taken from Fort William’ (1793) 74
Caine, William Sproston, Picturesque India 118
Calcutta 35, 58, 70–75, 86–7, 135, 139, 167, 182–3, 207–210; Calcutta (Davis) 75; New Government House (Best) 210, 211; New Government House (Moffat) 87, 208; ‘View of Calcutta from the Garden Reach’ (Daniell) 84–5, 86–7; View of Calcutta from Garden Reach House (Hodges) 74; ‘A View of Calcutta taken from Fort William’ (Byrne) 74; ‘View of a House, Manufactory and Bazaar in Calcutta’ (Jukes) 71; View of the North Front of Government House (Indian artist) 209; Views of Calcutta (Daniell) 8, 13–16, 14, 15, 71; Views of Calcutta and its Environs (D’Oyly) 206, 213, 214–15; see also Barrackpore; Fort William; Garden Reach
Calcutta Theatre 41–2
Campbell, Sir Archibald 19
Canning, Charles, Earl 104
Canning, Charlotte, Countess 122
Carter, George 42
Catherine of Braganza 64
Catton, Charles 13
Chait Singh, Raja of Benares 124–5
Chambers, Frances, Lady 163–6, 165
Chambers, Sir Robert 163–6, 164
Charles II, King 64
Charlotte, Queen 145
Charnock, Job 70
Child, Sir Josiah 33–5
Chinnery, George 98, 186; character sketches 150, 151–2, 151; A Durbar at Madras (1805) 38, 39; ‘Indian Villager with Bullock’ (c.1810–22) 99; Surf Boats on the Beach, Madras (1807) 64
Chunar 104
Chute, John 30
Claremont House, Surrey 184
Clive, Robert, 1st Baron 35, 178, 181, 184–6, 193, 198, 199, 210–211; Battle of Plassey 26, 29–30, 31, 35
Colebrooke, Robert, Twelve Views of Places in the Kingdom of Mysore 42
collectors and collecting 179, 180–86, 189–91
conversation pieces 145, 156, 162, 163
Coote, Sir Eyre 21, 160, 161, 193
Cornwallis, Charles, Marquess 40, 135, 163, 184; likenesses 135, 163, 193, 198, 203
Craven, William, 1st Earl of 201
Cromwell, Oliver 53
Dalhousie, James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of, ‘Doctrine of Lapse’ 216–17
Dalling, Sir John 179
Daniell, Thomas and William 13–19, 77, 93–8, 101, 104, 108–9, 112, 117–18, 179, 183–4, 186; Four Portrait Heads of Young Indian Men (1881–84) 148, 149; Oriental Scenery (1795–1808) 16–19, 25, 58, 60, 61, 94–8, 98, 110, 184; A Picturesque Voyage to India by the Way of China (1810) 19, 84–5, 86–7, 111; Views of Calcutta (1786–88) 8, 13–16, 14, 15, 71, 72; Views of the Taje Mahel at the City of Agra (1801) 118, 120–21
Davis, Samuel 77, 101; Calcutta 75; The Palace of Punukka in Bhutan 102–3
Day, Francis 56
Daylesford, Gloucestershire 80
Delhi 38, 112, 136, 161; see also Purana Qila
Delhi School: A European Smoking a Hookah (c.1820) 158–9, 161; Panorama of a Durbar Procession of Akbar II (c.1815) 2–3, 36–7, 38
Devis, Arthur William 24, 42, 45, 152–5, 163; Grinding Corn (c.1792–95) 153, 155; Sir Robert and Lady Chambers (c.1789) 163–6, 164–5; Sir William Jones (c.1793) 174, 175, 176
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall 26
Dickinson, Lowes see Roberts, William and Dickinson, Lowes
disestablishment of East India Company 216–17
‘Doctrine of Lapse’ (annexation policy) 216–17
D’Oyly, Charles 87, 110–112; Costumes of India (1830) 25, 112; Indian Sports (1829) 112; Patna City near the Gateway of the Fort (1824) 112, 112; Views of Calcutta and its Environs (1848) 206, 213, 214–15
D’Oyly, Sir John 180
durbars (ceremonies) 2–3, 38, 39, 41, 135–6, 137
Earl of Abergavenny (EIC ship) 49, 50
East India House, London 27, 177, 180, 187–203, 200, 201, 204–5; Committee of Correspondence meeting room 35, 191; Directors’ Court Room 53, 66, 180, 191, 192–3, 194; Library 139; Military Fund Office 198; Revenue Committee Room 30, 180; Sale Room (General Court Room) 180, 193, 195, 196–7, 198, 203
Eden, Emily 89; Portraits of the Princes and Peoples of India (1844) 25
Elephanta island 89–92, 90–91, 93, 181
Elizabeth I, Queen 33
Elliott, Robert 125
European Magazine 40–41
Faiz Bakhsh, Princess 156, 157
famines and food shortages 38–40
Farington, Joseph 186
Fielding, Sir John 202
Fielding, T.H. 213
Flaxman, John 193
Forbes, James 11, 19, 181; Oriental Memoirs (1813) 25
Forrest, Charles Ramus, A Picturesque Tour Along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna 11
Fort St George, Madras 56–61, 57, 58–9, 60, 73; St Mary’s Church 143
Fort William, Calcutta 45, 47, 70–71, 70, 73, 188–9
foundation of East India Company 33, 49
Fraser, James Baillie 77, 88–9, 98–101, 100
Fraser, William 98
Ganesha (Hindu deity) 176
Gangaram Chintaman Tambat 19; Gungarum (1790s) 17
Gantz, John, North East View of Bentinck’s Buildings, Madras (1822) 58–61, 62–3
Garden Reach, Calcutta 73, 74, 84–5, 86–7, 98, 126
gardens and gardening 86, 87–9, 101, 118, 179
Garrick, David 145
Gentleman’s Magazine 32
Goa 66
Good Hope, Cape of 49, 54–5, 56
Government of India Act (1858) 217
Graham, Maria 182–3
Granby, John Manners, Marquess of 198
Grandpré, Louis de 73
Grose, John Henry, plan of Bombay 66
Gurkhas 161
Halley, Edmond 175
Hastings, Warren: early career 157; Governor-General of Bengal 37–8, 77, 80, 83, 143, 173–5; impeachment 40, 124–5, 180; likenesses 135, 139, 157, 157, 161, 161, 173, 179, 193; patronage of arts 9, 78, 80, 145, 173, 179, 181, 185, 186
Hickey, Thomas 42, 166–70, 187; Colonel Colin Mackenzie (1816) 132, 170, 172, 173; John Mowbray, Calcutta Merchant (c.1790) 167–9, 168; Lieutenant- Colonel William Kirkpatrick (c.1799–1800) 170, 171; Purniya, Chief Minister of Mysore (c.1801) 169–70, 169
Hickey, William 16, 86, 89, 133, 134–5, 186, 207
Hill, Diana 24, 135; William Larkins (1786) 134, 135
Hinduism 35, 122–3, 176, 179; Ram Lila festival 125, 128
Hodges, William 9–11, 13, 21, 25, 45, 61, 72, 73–5, 77, 78–83, 94; A Dissertation on the Prototypes of Architecture (1787) 80; A Group of Temples at Deogarh (1782) 107–8, 107, 183; An Indian Sailing Vessel (c.1780) 45, 46; Marmalong Bridge (1783) 82, 83; Select Views in India (1785–88) 10, 25, 117, 118–19, 179, 183, 185; Storm on the Ganges (1790) 79, 80–83; The Taj Mahal (1783) 116, 117; Travels in India (1793) 25, 74, 80; A View of Benares (1781) 118, 122–5, 123; View of Calcutta from Garden Reach House (c.1781) 74; ‘A View of Calcutta taken from Fort William’ (1780s) 74; ‘A View of the Fort of Agra’ (1780s) 10; A View of the Fort of Agra on the River Jumna (1783) 117, 118–19; View of Part of the City of Benares (1781) 124, 125; ‘View of the Rajmahal Hills’ (c.1781) 78; A View of the Ruins at Agra and the Taj Mahal (1783) 116, 117; ‘A View of the Ruins of Part of the Palace and Mosque at Futtypoor Sicri’ (c.1798–1804) 183, 185; View of Warren Hastings’s House at Alipur (c.1782) 81, 83
Holland, Henry 202
Hooghley (paddle-steamer) 212, 213
Hope, Thomas 179
Humayun, Mughal Emperor 112, 115
Humboldt, Alexander von 25
Humphry, Ozias 11, 13, 45, 126, 134–5, 179–80, 184; From Col. Martin’s Guest Room, Lucknow (1786) 49, 51; Indian Women, Calcutta (1786) 148, 148
Hyder Ali, Sultan of Mysore 16, 40–41, 41
Imhoff, Baron Carl von 24
Impey, Sir Elijah 139, 163, 163, 182, 183
India Act (1784) 40
India Office, London 203; Library 19, 104, 143
Indian Civil Service 40
Itimad-ud-Daula, tomb 117
Jacobsen, Theodore 202
Jainism 173
Jats 136
Johnson, John 24, 112; Waterfall near Haliyal (1801) 22–3
Jones, Sir William 152, 155, 174, 175–6
Jukes, Francis, ‘View of a House, Manufactory and Bazaar in Calcutta’ (1795) 71
Jupp, Richard 202
Keate, George, Account of the Pelew Islands 152
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire 207
Kettle, Tilly 139–40, 142, 143, 145, 148; An Indian Dancing Girl (c.1772) 147, 148; Shuja-ud-Daula, Nawab of Awadh (c.1772) 140, 141
Kindersley, Jemima 21
Lahore 216
Lambert, George and Scott, Samuel 53, 191; Bombay (c.1731) 65, 66, 192; The Cape of Good Hope (c.1731) 53, 54–5, 192; Fort St George, Madras (c.1731) 57, 58, 192; Fort William, Calcutta (c.1731) 188–9, 191, 192; The Island of St Helena (c.1731) 52, 53; Tellicherry Kerala (c.1731) 190, 191, 192
Last Supper 143
Lawrence, Stringer 35, 193, 198
Leadenhall Street, London see East India House
Lear, Edward 126; A View of Benares (1873) 126, 130–31
Lethieullier, Smart 181
Locker, Edward Hawke, The Governor General’s Villa at Barrackpore (1808) 76, 87, 89
London Magazine, report on Battle of Plassey 29, 30
London Review 41
Longcroft, Thomas 25
Luny, Thomas, The ‘Earl of Abergavenny’, East Indiaman, off Southsea (1801) 49, 50
Lyceum Theatre, London 42
Lyon, Thomas 72
McClean, John, ‘Ruins of the Citadel in Pondicherry’ (1762) 20, 21–4
Mackenzie, Colin 132, 170–73, 172
Madras 11, 56–64, 70, 139, 151, 170; A Durbar at Madras (Chinnery) 39; North East View of Bentinck’s Buildings (Gantz) 58–61, 62–3; Surf Boats on the Beach, Madras (Chinnery) 64; see also Fort St George
Main, James 61
Malet, Sir Charles Warre 19, 92–3, 183–4
Malton, Thomas, ‘The East India Company’s Headquarters’ (1800) 204–5
maps 170, 187; India in 1765 7; ‘Islands of Bombay and Salsette’ (Barth) 68–9; ‘A Map of Hindoostan’ (Rennell) 12–13
Marathas 19, 92–3, 118; Anglo-Maratha Wars 40, 66, 89, 161
maritme trade 49–56, 66, 176–7, 213
Marshall, P.J. 9
Meerut 216
Melchet Park, Wiltshire 179
Middleton, Nathaniel 181
miniature painting 134–5, 134, 136, 148
Mir Jafar, Nawab of Bengal 26, 35–6, 198
Mir Kasim, Nawab of Bengal 36, 140
Moffat, James, New Government House (c.1803–4) 87, 208
Monghyr 104
Mornington, Richard Wellesley, 2nd Earl of see Wellesley, Richard, Marquess
Muhammed Ali Khan Walla Jah, Nawab of the Carnatic 35, 139, 143, 144
Mumtaz Mahal (Arjumand Banu) 115
Mutiny, Indian (1857–8) 104, 216–17
Nadir Shah, King of Persia 136–9, 138, 191
Najim-ud-Daula, Nawab of Bengal 178, 198, 199
Nechtman, Tillman 133
Neville, Sylas 181
Newton, Sir Isaac 175
Northcote, James 42
Northouck, James 202
Ochterlony, Sir David 158–9, 161
Old Bengal Warehouse, London 202
Osborne, Sir John 179
Oxenden, Sir George 64
Palk, Sir Robert 179
Palmer, William 118, 155–7, 156, 161
Palmerston, Mary, Viscountess 133
Paris, Peace of (1763) 35
Parsis 66
Pelew Islands 152
Penang 112
Pennant, Thomas, View of Hindustan 182
Penny, Edward, Lord Clive Receiving from the Nawab of Bengal the Grant of the Sum of Money (1772–73) 178, 198, 199
Persia 32, 136; Persian language 173, 175
Phillips, James, ‘Interior View of the Principal Excavated Temple on the Island of Elephanta’ (1790) 90–91
Philpot Lane, London 201
picturesque (aesthetic) 27, 77, 78, 83–9, 104, 126
Pindari War (1817–18) 161
Pitt, William, the Younger 40
Plassey, Battle of (1757) 26, 29–30, 35
Pocock, Sir George 193
Polier, Antoine 72, 75, 145; A View of Calcutta (1768) 72, 72–3
Porter, Sir Robert Ker 42; Storming of Seringapatam (1800) 26, 42, 45
Powis, Edward Clive, 1st Earl of 186
Pownall, Thomas 210
Prinsep, Henry 117
Prinsep, James 125; Benares Illustrated in a Series of Drawings (1830–34) 125, 127–9
Prinsep, Thomas 213; The Steamer Hooghley on the River Ganges (1828) 212, 213
Prinsep, William 98, 125, 213; Interior of the Arsenal in Fort William (c.1830) 45, 47; A Village Scene (c.1820) 99
Purana Qila, Delhi 112–15, 113, 114
Purniya, Chief Minister of Mysore 169–70, 169
Pyke, William 89
Rajmahal Hills 78
Ram Das 182
Raphael 143
Raymond, Charles 181
Read, Catherine 24
Renaldi, Francesco 155
Rennell, James, Memoir of a Map of Hindoostan (1783) 9, 12–13, 25
Repton, Humphry, An Enquiry into the Changes of Taste in Landscape Gardening and Architecture 179
Reynolds, Sir Joshua 89, 166, 173, 176, 184, 198
Roberts, Emma 125
Roberts, William and Dickinson, Lowes, ‘Town and Port of Calcutta’ (1848) 206, 214–15
Rodney, George, 1st Baron 203
Roma, Spiridione, The East Offering its Riches to Britannia (1778) 28, 30–32, 32
Roxburgh, William 182–3
Russell, Sir Henry 186
Rysbrack, Michael 192
sailing vessels see boats; ships
Salt, Henry 89, 108; The Temple at Rameswaram (1804) 108–9
Sanskrit 173
Santipur 152–5
Sasaram, tomb of Sher Shah Sur 94, 110, 111
Scheemakers, Peter 193
Scott, Samuel see Lambert, George and Scott, Samuel
Seringapatam, Battle of (1799) 26, 41–2, 43, 45, 163, 167, 170, 207
Seton, John Thomas 161–3; Lieutenant General Sir Eyre Coote (1783) 160, 161; Warren Hastings (1785) 161, 161
Seven Years War 21, 35, 45; see also Plassey, Battle of
Shah Alam II, Mughal Emperor 30, 31, 186
Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor 115, 135–6, 137
Shepherd, Thomas 192, 194, 195
Sher Shah Sur, Afghan chief 115; tomb 94, 110, 111
ships 49–53, 50, 54–5, 66–7, 188–9, 190, 206, 212, 213; shipwrecks 177
Shravan Belagoa 173
Shuja-ud-Daula, Nawab of Awadh 140, 141, 142, 145
Sikandra 108
Sikhs 136
Simpson, William 104, The Palace at Amber 104, 106
Singleton, Henry 42
Siraj-ud-Daulah, Nawab of Bengal 35, 72
Smart, John 24
Smith, Robert (1787–1873) 112–15; Purana Qila, Delhi (c.1823) 113, 114, 115
Smith, Robert (1792–1882) 101–4; The Fort at Allahabad (1833) 104, 105
Smythe, Sir Thomas 201
Solvyns, Frans Balthazar 24, 42, 155; The Costume of Hindostan (1804) 154, 155
Somerset House, London 203
Srinagar 95
Stothard, Thomas 42
Strange, Sir Robert 13
sublime (aesthetic) 27, 77, 89
Sulivan, Laurence 139
Sussex (EIC ship) 177
Sydenham, William 42
Syon House, Middlesex 207
Taj Mahal, Agra 77, 115–18, 116, 120–21
textile trade 44, 45, 66, 70, 155, 157
Thuljaji, Raja of Tangore 143
Tipu Sultan 16, 26, 41–2, 94, 163, 167, 169, 207
Townhill Park House, Hampshire 181
Tresham, Henry 45; Indian Textile Works and Weavers from the Malabar Coast (c.1780) 44, 45
Trichinopoly 35; The Rock at Trichinopoly (Ward) 34
Turner, Samuel 101
Twining, Thomas 14–15, 86, 115–17, 181–2
Valentia, George Annesley, Viscount (later 2nd Earl of Mountnorris) 87–9, 108
Valentines Mansion, Essex 181
Van Ryne, Jan 58, 58–9, 70, 70, 72
Vansittart, Henry 139, 179, 191–2
Vansittart, Nicholas (later Baron Bexley) 191
Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, London 26, 37
Vendramini, Giovanni, ‘The Last Effort of Tippoo Sultan in Defence of the Fortress of Seringapatam’ (1802) 42, 43
Verelst, Willem, John Dean, Shipwrecked Mariner (1743) 176–7, 177, 180
Vernet, Claude-Joseph 184
Vertue, George, ‘The Old East India House, Leadenhall Street’ (c.1711) 200, 202
Vishnu (Hindu deity) 179
Vyne, The, Hampshire 30
Wale, Samuel, East India House, Leadenhall Street (c.1760) 201
Wales, James 89–93, 94, 183–4; Bombay Views (1800) 66, 66–7, 70
Wandiwash 21
Ward, Francis Swain 25, 191; A ‘Choultry’, or Travellers’ Rest House, Srirangam (1772–73) 191, 192; The Rock at Trichinopoly (1772–73) 34, 35
Weekes, Henry 198
Wellesley, Arthur (later 1st Duke of Wellington) 38, 39, 87
Wellesley, Richard, Marquess (earlier 2nd Earl of Mornington) 41, 86–9, 167, 183, 193, 198, 207–211;
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of see Wellesley, Arthur
West, Benjamin 184–6; Shah Alam II Conveying the Grant of the Diwani to Lord Clive (c.1818) 29–30, 31, 36, 45, 186
Wilkins, Sir Charles 175
Williamson, Thomas, Oriental Field Sports (1819) 25
Willison, George 140–45, 148; Muhammad Ali Khan, Nawab of the Carnatic (1774) 143, 144
Wilson, Henry 152
Wilson, Richard 78
Wilton, Joseph 163
Wyatt, Charles 207
Yonge, Sir George 179
Yonge, Philip 16
Zain-al-Din, Sheikh 182
Zoffany, Johan 13, 25, 117, 145–8, 155–7, 184; Asaf-ud-Daulah, Nawab of Awadh (1784) 145–6, 146; Colonel Blair with his Family (c.1786) 162, 163; Major William Palmer and His Second Wife (c.1786) 155–7, 156; Sir Elijah Impey, Chief Justice of Bengal (1783) 163, 163