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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