Chapter IV: Fourth Period: Rise to Asiatic Power

1836-56.

§1. Russian advance checked by Nadir Shah, 1722-38. §2. First Cabul
war under Lord Auckland, 1838-42. §3. Lord Ellenborough, 1842-44:
return from Cabul and conquest of Sind. §4. War in Gwalior: reduction
of Sindia's army. §5. Lord Hardinge, 1845-48: Sikh rule in the
Punjab. §6. First Sikh war: Moodki, Ferozshahar, Aliwal, and
Sobraon. §7. Lord Dalhousie, 1848-56: Second Sikh war: Chillianwalla
and Goojerat: annexation of the Punjab. §8. British rule: patriarchal
government. §9. Second Burmese war, 1852: annexation of Pegu.
§10. Lord Dalhousie as an administrator: no roads in India. §11.
Trunk road, trunk railway, telegraphs, Ganges canal. §12. Annexations
of Nagpore, Satara, Jhansi, and Oudh. §13. India Bill of 1853:
new competitive Civil Service. §14. New Legislative Council: Lord
Macaulay and the Penal Code. §15. Departure of Lord Dalhousie, 1856.
§16. Lord Canning, 1856-62: expedition to the Persian Gulf. §17.
Mogul family at Delhi. §18. Condition of Oudh. _Pages_ 141-184