agency, female subaltern, 22–3, 252
Alavi, Seema, 215
Amber Kaur, 77; see also Charles Warre Malet
Amherst, Lady Sarah, 159, 161
Amussen, Susan Dwyer, 109
Anderson, Benedict, 250
archives, 4, 17–9, 22, 109, 137, 253
Auriol, Charles, 59
Auriol, James, 62
Auriol, John, 59
Awadh, 76; nawab of, 73, 77
Baboo and other tales descriptive of society in India, 53–5
Bacon, Thomas, 159–60
Bauker Ali, 93, 94, 96
Bayly, Christopher Alan, 10, 75
begum, definitions of, 33, 150
Bennett, Helen, also known as Halima, Banu, 30, 147–52, 163–9, 251; see also Benoit de Boigne
Benton, Lauren, 173, 203
Bhabha, Homi, 36, 102
bibi, definitions of, 33
Blechynden, Richard, 44
Bose, Sugata, 209
Bowen, Lt. Col., 94
Brazil, 28–9
Bristow, John, 76, 139; see also Mahondy Khanum
Brooke, William, 78
Brown, Kathleen, 25, 70
Burke, Edmund, 7
Calcutta, 75, 209
“Cambridge” school, 22, 23
Carlyle, Thomas, 69, 103
Chakravarti, Uma, 250
Chambers, Robert, 173, 183
Chaplin, Joyce, 28
Charnock, Job, 246–7
Chatterjee, Indrani, 23–4, 128, 213
Church of England, 18, 39, 76
Clive, Lord Edward, 74, 95
Clive, Lord Robert, 5
Cohn, Bernard, 42, 73
colonial rule, Great Britain (1760–1840), 2–10
colonial rule, Iberia, 28–9
colonial rule, Netherlands, 27
concubinage, 29–31, 110–1
Cornwallis, Lord Charles, 7–9, 11, 97
D’Osmond, Adele, 165–7
D’oyley, Charles, 46
Dalrymple, William, 23–4, 71
Daniells, Thomas and William, 77
Dashwood, Charlotte, 59
Dashwood, Thomas, 59, 62
Davidoff, Leonore, 111
De Boigne, Benoit, 30, 77–9, 148, 151–2, 163–8
Delhi, 74
Dirks, Nicholas, 21, 22
East India Company, 2–9, 12, 87–8, 170–5, 211–45
East India Sketchbook, 55–6
Edmonstone, Neil, 76, 91, 95, 97
Faiz Baksh, 79–89, 99, 105–6, 149, 163, 254; see also entries for Palmer
family, definitions of, 3–4, 11–3, 107, 112, 244
Fay, Eliza, Original Letters of, 47, 49–50
Fisher, Michael, 72
Francis, Philip, 76, 119, 120
Fraser, William, 10, 98–100, 159
George, Rosemary, 102
Grant, Robert, 113–7
Hall, Catherine, 111
harem, 75–6
Hartley House, 47–52, 56
Hastings, Warren, 6, 7, 82, 83, 119, 140, 164, 252
Heber, Reginald, 159
Hickey, William, 44
history, women and gender, 16–7
Hudson Bay Company, 26
hybridity, 14
Hyde, John, 173, 181, 183–4
Hyderabad, 74, 90; nizam of, 70, 86, 91
Impey, Elijah, 62, 173, 183
inheritance patterns, 123
inventories, 145–7; see also wills
Jones, William, 7, 173
Kanpur, 209
Kettle, Tilly, 67, 68, 77, 78
Dancing Girl, 63–5
Khair-un-nissa, 23, 30, 69, 89–105, 254; see also entries for Kirkpatrick
Kirkpatrick, Catherine Aurora, also known as Kitty, 69, 89–106
Kirkpatrick, Col. James, 89
Kirkpatrick, George, 91, 105–6
Kirkpatrick, James Achilles, 30, 31, 69–71, 79, 83, 89–106, 108, 121, 254; see also Khair-un-nissa
Kirkpatrick, James George, 104–6
Kirkpatrick, William, 89–93, 96, 100, 104–6, 124, 225
Langford, Paul, 108
Laslett, Peter, 30
law, civil, 175–9, 204
estate of Bibee Hay alias Bibee Hannah, 175–9, 204
law, criminal, 179–204
cases of household violence,
Rex v. Betty and Peggy, 181–5, 188–91
Rex v. William Orby Hunter, 181, 185–91, 194
cases of domestic violence, 191–7
Rex v. Henry Pyne, 191–4
Rex v. Michael Chestnut, 194–5
Rex v. Dupont, 195–6
Rex v. John Taylor, 196
cases of rape, 197–204
Rex v. Pierre Bouton, 197–8, 200
Rex v. William Tripp, 199–200
King v. John Chilton Lambton Carter, 200–3
Lord Clive Pension Fund, 211–4, 216–24, 244, 252
Lucknow, 74, 76–9, 83, 164
Mahondy Khanum, 76, 139, 144; see also John Bristow
Malcolm, John, 74, 96, 97
Malet, Charles Warre, 73, 75–7; see also Amber Kaur
marriages, number of, 39–40
Marshall, Peter, 47
Martin, Claude, 77, 78, 117, 164
Metcalfe, Charles Theophilus, 88, 97–8, 121, 151
Middleton, Nathaniel, 76, 78
Military Orphan Society, 91, 119, 139, 212–4, 224–38, 244, 249, 252; Upper School, 229–30, 237; Lower School, 229–30, 237, 242
military, 207–45
Mir Alam, 93
Mohanty, Chandra, 21
Mughal empire, 4–5, 12, 71–2, 83
Mysore wars, 90, 120
nabobs, 50–1
naming practices, 17–20, 135–6, 142, 252–3
Nashtar, 206–7, 246–7
Nugent, Lady Maria, 78, 139, 159, 160, 238
Nussbaum, Felicity, 37, 55
O’Hanlon, Rosalind, 20
Ochterlony, David, 98, 121, 159
Ong, Aihwa, 21
orphans, 224–38; see also Military Orphan Society
Orr, Major, 94–5
Palmer and company, 80–9
Palmer, John, 85, 87, 99, 105–6
Palmer, Samuel, 85, 105–6
Palmer, William (the younger), 85–7, 99, 105–6
Palmer, William, 29, 31, 70, 71, 78–89, 98–102, 105–6, 108, 124, 159, 163, 164, 233, 254; see also Faiz Baksh
Pearsall, Sarah, 124
Pearse, Punna Purree, 119, 122, 139–41, 252
Pearse, Thomas Deane Mahomet, 121, 126, 140–1
Pearse, Thomas Deane, 107, 119–22, 124, 252; see also Punna Purree Pearse
Peers, Douglas, 208
Penny, Edward, 215
Peshwa, 70
Plowden, Mrs. Richard, 78
Polier, Antoine, 77, 78, 153
portraits, 57–68
Pratt, Mary Louise, 25, 52
Prinsep, James 59
Prinsep, John, 59, 62
Prinsep, Sophie, 59
Pune, peshwa in, 70, 76, 82
race, 14–5
regulating acts, 6, 7, 172
Reinhardt, Walter, 77, 147, 150–4, 170–4; see also Samru, Begum
Renaldi, Francesco, 68, 77, 81
Muslim lady reclining, 66–7
Muslim lady seated with hookah, 63, 65–6
Portrait of a Mogul Lady, 65–6
Rennell, James, 76
residency system, 71–6
Roberts, Emma, 75, 237
Robinson, James, 176–9; see also civil law
Samru, Begum, also known as Johanna, Farzana, Zeb-un-nissa, 147–63, 169, 251; see also Walter Reinhardt
Sarkar, Jadunath, 148
Scott, Joan, 21
Sharpe, Jenny, 22
Shore, John, 76, 219
Skinner, Hercules, 77
Skinner, James, 152–63
slavery, Atlantic, 24–5
Sleeman, William, 151–2, 159
Smith, Charles, 78
Smith, Raymond, 29, 124
Spivak, Gayatri, 21
Stoler, Ann, 11, 13, 18, 25–6, 224, 250
Stone, Lawrence, 109
Subaltern Studies collective, 23, 250
subjectivity, female, 15–7, 20, 22, 23, 32, 134–7; religious, 142–4; legal, 252
Suleri, Sara, 42, 79
Supreme Court, 172–5, 181–91
Taylor, Meadows, 87; Seeta, 81
Teltscher, Kate, 41, 42
Thackeray, Richmond, 11, 124–5
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 11, 50, 124–5
Thomas, George, 156, 159
Tipu Sultan, 90, 91
Tobin, Beth, 60
Twinam, Ann, 29
Vassoult, 156–8
Verelst, Harry, 76
Viswanathan, Gauri, 178
Visweswaran, Kamala, 20
Wales, James, 77
Wellesley, Arthur, 8–9, 91–3, 95–7
Wheeler, Roxann, 79
White, Luise, 210
White, Richard, 25
Wildenthal, Lora, 179
Williamson, Thomas, 35, 56; East India Vade Mecum, 36, 42–7, 56
wills, 109–10, 112, 130–1, 134–47; see also inventories
Wombwell, John, 78
Zoffany, John, 68, 77, 78, 81
Auriol and Dashwood Families, 57–9
Colonel Mordaunt’s Cock Fight, 73
Impey Family Listening to Strolling Musicians, 57, 60–1
Palmer family, 80–1