ABDUL RAHMAN (Sher Ali's cousin),
his claim to the Afghan throne,
245; in Russian protection, 245;
at Tashkend, 410; his account
of his experiences in Russian
territory, 410, 411; suggested
as Amir of Kabul, 412; appeals
to the chiefs of Kohistan, 413;
negotiates with Lord Lytton
concerning the Amirship, 414;
suggests an Anglo-Russian
protectorate, 414, 415; Lord
Lytton's policy towards him,
418, 428, 429-434; Lord Ripon's
exposition of his policy regard-
ing him, 435, 436; his reply to
Lord Ripon, 436; recognised
as Amir of Kabul, 438; meets
Mr. Lepel Griffin to settle
conditions of Amirship, 438;
his personality, 439; obtains
Kandahar, 443; defeats Ayub
Khan's forces near Kandahar,
459; relations with the Govern-
ment of India, 459
Abdullah Jan (son of Sher Ali),
his succession to the Amirship
recognised, 12, 32, 53, 83, 84,
91; death of, 264; assumed
cause of death, 297
Abdullah Jan, Sirdar (son of
Sultan Jan of Herat), 343
Abdullah Nur at Ali Musjid, 275
Afghanistan, affairs of, see 'Sher
Ali,' 'Yakub Khan,' and
'Lytton, Earl of'
Afridi tribes, the, 183, 184, 273,
274, 287, 314
Afzul Khan, Mir, of Kandahar,
counsels Sher Ali to receive a
British mission, 268
Agra, salt duties in, 470
Aitchison, Sir Charles, president
of the Public Service Commis-
sion, 534
Akhal Tekke tribe, their submis-
sion to Russia, 17; use made
of, by Russia, 35
Akhor Ahmed Khan, Mir, 134
Alexis, Grand Duke, of Russia,
and M. de Lesseps, 43
Ali Musjid, where the Neville-
Chamberlain mission was
checked, 275, 279, 283, 288;
captured by the British, 296
Aligurh, Mohammedan College
at, 130
Anglo-Indian Press, ignoble con-
duct of the, 394
Arbabs (middlemen),
employment discouraged by
Lord Lytton, 173
Arbuthnot, Mr. (now Sir Alex-
ander), Lord Lytton's minister
in council for famine affairs,
206, 219; introduces a Ver-
nacular Press Bill, 509
Argyll, Duke of, refuses the
sanction of British aid to Sher
Ali, 14; his Indian Civil
Service Act of 1870, 526
Assam, its salt supply from
Cheshire, 463
Atta Mahomed Khan (British
native agent), at Kabul, 81, 135,
151, 161
Ayerst, Mr., murder of, at Poona,
522
Ayub Khan (son of Sher Ali), in
power at Herat, 396; defeats
the British at Maiwand, 440;
besieges Kandahar, 441; de-
feated by General Roberts,
442; defeats Abdul Rahman's
troops and occupies Kandahar,
458; defeated by Abdul Rah-
man, 459;
takes refuge in
Persia, 459
BADAKSHAN, 253
Badshah Khan (Ghilzai chief),
friendly to the Cavagnari Mis-
sion, 344
Baker, General, joined by Yakub
Khan at Kushi, 360, 361, 362;
in action before Kabul, 363, 364,
365
Bala Hissar, the, Kabul, 338, 341,
355, 361, 364, 366, 371, 374 note
Balkh, 18, 254
Baly, Archdeacon, at the Delhi
Assemblage, 118
Bangalore, famine in, 221
Bangobáshi,' the (Calcutta news-
paper), prosecution of, for sedi-
tion, 522
Baring, Major (now Lord Cromer),
abolishes cotton and other duties
in India, 484, 485
Baroghil Pass, the, 186, 187
Batten, Mr. George, cited, 467
Battye, Captain W., on the Neville-
Chamberlain mission, 274
Beaconsfield, Earl of (then Mr.
Disraeli), Prime Minister, 2, 16;
selects Lord Lytton as Viceroy
of India, 2, 3; his opinion of
the policy of Russia, 28; on
the Afghan question, 31; his
purchase of Suez Canal shares,
41; letter to him from Lord
Lytton on the feudal aristocracy
of India, 108; congratulates
Lord Lytton on the success of
his Indian policy, 331; fall of his
Government in 1880, 419; letter
of thanks to him from Lord
Lytton, 424
Beadon, Sir Cecil (Lieut.-Gov. of
Bengal), and the vernacular
press, 502
Bellary famine relief camp, 216
Bellew, Dr. (Sir Lewis Pelly's
secretary), 53, 134, 136
Belooch Guides, the, 170
Beloochistan, 408
Bengal, its salt supply from
Cheshire, 463; duty on salt in,
464, 471, 472, 474
Beresford, Lord William, his grief
at the death at polo of Captain
Clayton, 118; illness at the
Delhi Assemblage, 129
Bernard, Mr. (now Sir Charles),
secretary to Lord Lytton, 206
Bhopal, Begum of, at the Delhi
Assemblage, 125
Biddulph, Major, his exploration
of N.-W. frontier passes, 186;
(General), his expedition against
the Afghans, 301; occupies
Girishk, 302
Bolan Pass, the, 104
Bombay Presidency, famine in,
114, 189; relief works, 190,
191, 200; system of famine
relief superior to that of Madras,
192, 200; relief wages in, 196;
salt production and duties in,
464, 469, 471, 472, 474
Bright, General, in advance on
Kabul after the Cavagnari
massacre, 361
Browne, Major, 287
Browne, Sir Samuel, captures Ali
Musjid, 296; occupies Jellala-
bad, 297
Buckingham, Duke of, Governor
of Madras, 126, 193, 195; com-
plains of Lord Lytton's despatch
on famine relief, 195; his famine
minute,203; suggested as famine
dictator, 203, 208; interview
with Lord Lytton at Bellary,
210; details of his agreement
with Lord Lytton on manage-
ment of famine, 212, 224; his
popularity in Madras, 215
Bukhtiar Khan (British native
agent), 161, 267; at Kabul with
Yakub, 307, 316, 320, 321, 336,
337, 344, 345; death of, 339
Burmese, at the Delhi Assemblage,
124
Burne, Colonel (Sir) Owen, private
secretary to Lord Lytton, 40,
81, 103, 121, 122; in Madras
in the famine, 206
Burrows, General, defeated by
Ayub Khan at Maiwand, 440
CAIRO, Lord Lytton's description
Calcutta, its grain trade paralysed
by Madras Government's con-
duct of famine relief, 195
Campbell, Sir George, on the salt
customs, 465; (Lieut.-Gov. of
Bengal), and the seditious
vernacular press, 503
Cavagnari, Major, Deputy Com-
missioner at Peshawur, 160;
letter to him from Lord Lytton
indicating line of frontier policy,
161, 165; his opinion on that
policy, 164, 166; chastises ring-
leaders in the Swat Canal
outrage, 183; on the difficulties
of Sher Ali's position, 249, 264;
negotiates with the Khyber
tribes, 269, 286, 295; report of the
check of the Neville-Chamber-
lain Mission at Ali Musjid, 275,
280; in negotiation with Yakub
Khan, 313-317; first interview
with Yakub, 321; opinion of the
Amir, 322; his task after the
Treaty of Gundamuk, 324; ser-
vices acknowledged by Govern-
ment, 332; appointed Envoy
at Kabul, 333; starts for Kabul,
335; letter of thanks to Lord
Lytton, 335; constitution of his
staff and escort, 337, 338, 339;
receives news of the death of
Bukhtiar Khan, 339; enters
Kabul, 341; his account of his
reception, 342-344; thinks
Ghulam Hasan Khan unsuited
to be native agent at Kabul,
344; his views on his own and
on Yakub's policy, 345; restric-
tions placed on his intercourse
with Afghan notables, 346, 347,
348; considers Yakub's authority
very weak, 348; receives hints
as to Yakub's treachery, and
controls his intercourse with
Russia, 349; on the mutinous
Herat regiments, 350; his faith
in Yakub, 353; his last telegram,
354; massacred at Kabul, 356,
357; Lord Lytton's tribute to
his worth, 360
Chamberlain, Sir Neville, pro-
posed as Envoy on a mission to
Afghanistan, 259; accepts the
post, 261; at Peshawur, 269;
at Jamrud, 274; checked by
Faiz Mahomed at Ali Musjid,
275; Cavagnari's report of the
affair, 275-280; return of his
mission to Peshawur, 280;
on the result of the mission,
281, 283; guarantees the
Khyberis protection from Sher
Ali, 288; ill at Simla, 288;
strength of his escort on his mis-
sion, 337
Charasiab, fights at, 364, 414
Chardeh Valley, fight in the, 390
Chitral, the frontier from Quettah
to, 253; 185, 187
Chitral, Sirdar of, at the Delhi
Assemblage, 124
Christie, Mr., his share in the nego-
tiations with Sher Ali, 161
Clayton, Captain (9th Lancers),
death of, whilst playing at polo,
118
Colley, Colonel, military secretary
to Lord Lytton, 40; on Lord
Lytton's first speech before the
Indian Council, 50; in Khelat,
99, 100, 102; at the Delhi
Assemblage, 122; at Peshawur,
180; at Madras in the famine,
206, 207, 208
Cotton duties, 475 et sqq.
Cranbrook, Lord, 185; made
Secretary for India, 240; letter to
him from Lord Lytton on policy
towards Afghanistan, 243; from
the same on Russia's advance
in Central Asia, 249; Lord
Lytton's letter to him on
resigning Viceroyship, 422;
on the Vernacular Press Bill,
518; against a close Indian Civil
Service, 533
Cromer, Lord, see Baring
DALHOUSIE, Lord, his treaty with
Dost Mahomed, 18
Daod Shah (Afghan general),
321; appointed Yakub's com-
mander-in-chief, 334, 343, 347,
353; endeavours to prevent the
massacre of the British mission,
355, 357, 358, 361
Delhi Assemblage, details of the,
on the proclamation of Her Ma- !
jesty as Kaisar i-Hind, 110-133
Derby, Lord, Secretary for
Foreign Affairs, 16; Count
Shouvalow's proposals to, on
direct communication between
Russian and English forces in
Central Asia, 33
Dinkur Rao, Sir (Sindiah's
minister), on British adminis-
tration, 123
Disraeli, Benjamin, see Beacons-
field
Dost Mahomed, his treaty with
the British, 18
Downe, Lord and Lady, at Delhi,
126
Dufferin, Lord, appoints the
Public Service Commission,
534
Durand, Sir Henry, demarcates the
Eastern Afghan boundary, 459
EDEN, Mr. (afterwards Sir A.,
Lieutenant-Governor of Ben-
gal), urges legislation against
the vernacular press, 505; pro-
secutes a Bengali journal for a
seditious article, 521; on the
Covenanted Civil Service, 529
Elliott, Mr. Charles (now Sir),
Famine Commissioner of My-
sore, 222; the Viceroy's minute
on his Mysore famine report,
223
Empress day' in India, 132
Extraordinary Public Works,
India, 488 et sqq.
FAIZ MAHOMED (Afghan general),
dealing with the Chamberlain
mission, 269, 270, 273, 275, 276,
277, 279, 280
Famine, in Bombay and Madras,
114; in the southern provinces
of India, 189 et sqq.; insurance
taxation, 493 et sqq.
Forster, John, a personal friend
of Lord Lytton, 25
Frere, Sir Bartle, advocates the
appointment of British officers
on the frontiers of Afghanistan,
GHILZAIS, the, 287
Ghulam Haidar, General, 411
Ghulam Hasan Khan, Nawab,
emissary to Sher Ali, 264, 265,
266, 269, 277, 278, 280, 290
Ghuzni, 414, 417
Gibbs, Mr., his Bill repealing the
Vernacular Press Act, 521
Giers, M. de, on Russian dealings
with Sher Ali, 78
Gilgit, British political agent at,
185, 187; telegraph at, 187, 188
Gladstone, Mr., succeeds Lord
Beaconsfield in 1880, 419; his
motion on the Indian Ver-
nacular Press Act, 519
Goa, the Portuguese Governor-
General of, at the Delhi Assem-
blage, 119, 129
Gortchakow, Prince, on Russian
policy in Afghanistan, 34
Gough, General Hugh, at Kabul,
Grant Duff, Sir Mountstuart,
letter to him from Lord Lytton
on frontier raids, 183
Gray, Captain, 81, 83
Griffin, Mr. Lepel (now Sir),
appointed to diplomatic and
administrative superintendence
at Kabul, 403; minute from
Lord Lytton, 404-408; further
instructions of policy from the
Viceroy, 408; Abdul Rahman
suggested to him as possible
Amir of Kabul, 412;
municates to Abdul Lord
Lytton's views, 418; and those
of Lord Ripon, 437; negotiates
with Abdul personally the
terms of Amirship, 438; his
sketch of Abdul, 439
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