and its people were painted savages, India was the seat of the highest intellectual sciences. Its philosophers ranked with those of Greece; its people produced the most beautiful and delicate manufactures; and the records of their social polity exhibit the existence of elaborate codes of law and diplomacy, with provisions for mutual security and protection of property, to which the nations of the West were long strangers. If, under the direction of Divine Providence, we English have outstripped the bounds of early Indian progress, its people are not the less entitled to our admiration and sympathy for what they have preserved. Up to the close of the eighteenth century I have added chronological dates regarding memorable events, which may serve to assist the student's memory. MEADOWS TAYLOR. OLD COURT, HAROLD'S CROSS, NEAR DUBLIN : 1870. LIST OF WORKS CONSULTED. 1. Prinsep's Indian Antiquities. 2. Fergusson's Indian Chronology-Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, March 1869. 3. Voyages of M. Cæsar Fredericke—Asiatic Miscellany. 4. India in the 15th Century-Hakluyt Society. 5. Catalogue of Mackenzie's Collection of Inscriptions, by H. H. Wilson. 6. Walter Elliot's Canarese Inscriptions, part i. vol. xx.-Asiatic Researches. 7. Briggs's Translation of Ferishta's History. 8. Scott's Deccan. 9. Dow's History of Hindostan. 10. Syr-ool Muta Khereen. 11. Elphinstone's History of India. 12. Mill's History of India, with Wilson's Continuation. 13. Thornton's History of India. 14. Marshman's History of India. 15. Montgomery Martin's History of India. 16. Beveridge's Comprehensive History of India. 17. Trotter's History of India. 18. Grant Duff's History of the Mahrattas. 19. Wilks's History of Mysore. 20. Tod's Rajasthan. 21. Williams's History of Guzerat. 22. Malcolm's Central India. 23. Malcolm's Life of Clive. 24. Orme's History. 25. Cambridge's War in Coromandel. 26. Buchanan's Report on Mysore. 27. Cunningham's History of the Sikhs. 28. Prinsep's Narrative. 29. Lake's Sieges and Operations. 30. Dixon's Mairwarra. 31. Faria De Souza's History of the Portuguese in India. 32. Campbell's Personal Narrative. 33. Kaye's Afghan War. 34. Kaye's Sepoy War, vol. i. 35. Havelock's Narrative (Afghan War). 36. Eyre's Narrative of Military Operations (Afghanistan) 37. Napier's Conquest of Sinde. 38. Napier's Administration of Sinde. 39. Outram's Commentary (Sinde). 40. The Nizam, by H. G. Briggs. 41. Our Ally the Nizam, by Major Hastings Fraser. 42. Chesney's Polity. 43. Prichard's Administration of India. 44. Raikes's Revolt in North-West Provinces. 45. Trevelyan's Cawnpoor. 46. Edwards's Reminiscences. 47. Malleson's History of the French in India. 48. Parliamentary Returns and Blue Books. 49. Asiatic Register. 50. The Homeward Mail, &c., &c., &c. To each and all of these works, I beg to record my sincere obligations. M. T. Erratum. Page 37, line 9, omit not CONTENTS. I. A Brief Description of India II. Of the People-Hindoos and Mahomedans III. Of the People (continued). VI. Of the Religion of the Hindoos. VII. Of India before the Aryans . From the Invasion of Alexander to the end of the Mauryan XII From the end of the Mauryan Dynasty to the Christian Era, XIII. Of the Northern Mediæval Dynasties, A.D. 100 to 700 XIV. Of the Southern Mediæval Dynasties-Hindoo, B.C. 900 to IV. Of the Southern Mediæval Dynasties (continued), A.D. 250 to Of the Early Mahomedan Invasions of India, A.D. 664 to 997 II. Of the Invasion of India by Sooltan Mahmood of Ghuzny, sur- named Boot-Shikun,' or Idol-Breaker, A.D. 997 to 1030. III. From the Death of Sooltan Mahmood to the end of the Ghuz- IV. Of the Conquests of Sooltan Sháháb-ood-deen Mahmood Ghoory, commonly called Mahomed Ghoory, A.D. 1156 to 1205 V. Of the Slave Kings of Dehly in Succession, A.D. 1205 to 1239 94 Of the Slave Kings of Dehly (continued), 1239 to 1288 Of the Khiljy or Ghilzye Dynasty of Dehly, A.D. 1288 to 1304 VIII. The Khiljy Dynasty of Dehly (concluded), A.D. 1305 to 1321 IX. Of the Dynasty of Tóghluk, A.D. 1321 to 1351 X. The Dynasty of Tóghluk (continued), A.D. 1351 to 1398 XI. Of the Invasion of Teimoor, and the Conclusion of the Tóghluk Of the Mahomedan Kings of Kashmere . Of the Mahomedan Kings of Guzerat, A.D. 1305 to 1443 IV. Of the Mahomedan Kings of Malwah, A.D. 1387 to 1482 . Of the Mahomedan Kings of Khandésh, A.D. 1370 to 1520 VII. Of the Mahomedan Kings of Bengal and Bahar, A.D. 1341 to VIII. Of the Mahomedan Kings of Joonpoor-The Shurky Dynasty, IX. Of the Mahomedan Kings of Mooltan-The Lunga (Afghan) XII. Of the Bahmuny Mahomedan Dynasty of the Deccan (con- XVI. Of the Southern Hindoo States subsequent to the First Ma- homedan Invasion- -The Dynasty of Vijyanugger or Beejanugger, A.D. 1110 to 1524 XVII. Of the Imád Shahy Dynasty of Berar, A.D. 1484 to 1527 XVIII. Of the Adil Shahy Dynasty of Beejapoor, A.D 1489 to 1510 XIX. Of the Adil Shahy Dynasty of Beejapoor (continued), A.D. |