GUJELHATTI, a fort besieged and taken by the British, 1768; retaken by Hyder Ali, 1768. GUJERAT, battle of, February 21, 1849.

GUNGADHUR SHASTRY, chief minister of the Guicowar, selected to negotiate with the Peishwa in 1815. murdered at Punderpore, July 14, 1815.

GUNGEREE, battle of, December 14, 1857.

GUNTOOR, a collectorate in Madras, ceded to the E.I.C. in 1765, by the Emperor of Delhi. The territory was not, however, acquired till 1788, when it was surrendered by the Nizam.

GUNTOOR, the principal place of the British district of the same name, rented of Basalut Jung in 1778. In 1788 surrendered to the British, in accordance with the firman of the King of Delhi in 1765. GURUDWARA, battle of, 1803.

GUZERAT, Sovereignty of, acquired in 1721 by Pelajee, Guicowar, commander of the Mahratta armies; he was murdered in 1732, and succeeded by his son Damajee, who renounced allegiance to the Peishwa. Syajee succeeded, but died without issue in 1792, when he was succeeded by his elder brother Govind Rao. In 1800, Annund Rao became Guicowar, but his illegitimate brother Canojee usurped the administration until expelled by Rawajee, who entered into relations with the Bombay Government; a convention signed between the Governments, March 15, 1802; a defensive alliance concluded April 21, 1805, the Guicowar agreeing to receive a permanent subsidiary force. The rite of suttee abolished by proclamation, February 12, 1840.

GWALIOR, taken possession of by Madhajee Scindia in 1779.

the fort surprised by Captain Popham, August 3,

1780.

ceded to the Rana of Gohud in 1781.

captured by Scindia in 1784.

surrendered to the British in 1803 by the treaty of Serjee Anjengaum, and by them transferred to the Rana of Gohud.

GWALIOR, in 1805 conferred on Dowlut Rao Scindia by Lord Cornwallis.

on the 4th January 1844 the fort was again occupied by the British; a contingent force, commanded by British officers, provided for by treaty of January 13, 1844. present Maharajah ascended the musnud in 1853. the contingent mutinied June 16, 1857, and massacred many Europeans.

the Maharajah fled to Agra, June 1, 1858.
reinstated by Sir Hugh Rose, June 20, 1858.

H

HANSI, rebuilt by George Thomas, 1798.

George Thomas besieged by the Mahrattas, and compelled to flee into British territory, 1801. HARDINGE, Sir H., born 1785.

Governor-General, July 23, 1844.

finally settled the purchase of the Danish settlements in India, February 22, 1845.

defeated the Sikhs at Ferozeshur, December 22, 1845, and at Sobraon, February 10, 1846.

created Viscount, May 4, 1846.

resigned government of India, 1847.

returned to England, January 12, 1848.
died, 1856.

HARLAND, Sir ROBERT, arrived at Madras, bearing a letter from the King to the Nabob of Arcot, August

1771.

HARRIS, BARTHOLOMEW, Governor of Bombay, 1690 to 1693. HARRIS, Lord, Governor of Madras from 1853 to March 28, 1859.

HARRIS, General Lord, G.C.B., entered the artillery 1759. made Lieutenant-Colonel, 1780.

accompanied Sir William Medows, as secretary and aide-de-camp, to Bareilly in 1788, and was with him during the campaigns of 1790, 1791, and 1792, particularly at the storming parties of the Pettah and fort

ress of Bangalore, March 20, 1791; Savandroog, December 20, 1791; and Nundedroog, October 19, 1791. HARRIS, General Lord, G.C.B., was engaged under Lord Cornwallis in the attack on the fortified camp of Tippoo at Seringapatam on February 6, 1792.

left Madras, and returned to England in August 1792.

he joined his regiment at Calcutta in October 1794, and was appointed to the command of Fort William.

he was made a lieutenant-general in 1797, and appointed to command the Madras army. He had also a seat in Council, and obtained the right of nominating officers to purely military appointments, previously held by the civil power.

appointed to take charge, until the arrival of Lord Clive, of the Civil Government of Bengal, from February 21, 1798, to September 5, 1799, in addition to his duties as Commander-in-Chief. In the same year he was appointed to the command of the expedition against Mysore, and took the fort of Seringapatam, May 4, 1799, which concluded the war with Tippoo Sultan. In June 1815 he was raised, through the good offices of Lord Liverpool, the Duke of York, and his own deserts, to the peerage, under the style and title of Lord Harris of Belmont, in Kent, and of Seringapatam and Mysore in the East Indies. He died on May 15, 1829. HARRIS, Lieutenant-General Lord, K.C.H., was the eldest son of the first Lord Harris; he served at Seringapatam, in 1779, at the storming of which fort he was Lieutenant of H.M.'s 74th. He was sent home with Tippoo's captured standards.

HARRISON, E., Governor of Madras, 1711 to 1717.

HARRISON, Chairman of the Court of Directors, 1775. HARROWBY, Lord, President of the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India from July 11, 1809, to November 7, 1809.

HASTINGS, WARREN, born in 1732.

sent to India as a writer, 1749.
returned to England about 1763.

HASTINGS, WARREN; while still in England, he was appointed to the second seat in the Council of Madras in 1769.

President of the Council of Bengal, 1772.

constituted first Governor-General, by Act of Parliament, 1773.

set sail for England, February 1785.

impeached on four heads, 1786-87.

trial commenced, February 13, 1788; prosecution lasted until June 1791; and his defence was not concluded until April 23, 1795, on which day he was acquitted of the charges brought against him.

annuity of £4000 granted to him by the Company for twenty-eight and a half years, 1796.

died, August 22, 1818.

HASTINGS, Marquess of (Lord Moira), Governor-General from October 4, 1813, to January 9, 1823.

Nepaul war, October 1814, to February 1816; Candy annexed, March 2, 1815; Pindarrees suppressed, 1819; Mahratta Confederacy dissolved, 1819.

HASTINGS, Mr F., Governor of Madras from 1720 to 1721. HATTRASS TOWN stormed and taken by the British, February 23, 1817.

Fort, March 1, 1853.

HAVELOCK, HENRY, born April 5, 1795. Served in the first Burmese war, 1824 to 1826; in Affghanistan, 1838 to 1842; in first Punjab campaign, 1846.

second in command in Persia, 1856 and 1857.

received command of force assembled for the relief of Cawnpore garrison, July 9, 1857.

relieved Lucknow, September 25, 1857.

created a Baronet, November 26, 1857.
died, November 24, 1857.

HAWKINS, Captain, mission to Jehangire, 1609.

HAY, Mr, murdered by order of Meer Cossim, Oct. 3, 1763. HAYLEYBURY COLLEGE established, 1805; abolished, 1857. HAZAREERBAGH ceased to be a British cantonment, 1845. HEBER, Bishop of Calcutta from 1824 to 1826. Born 1783; died, April 3, 1826.

HERRIES, Right Hon. J. C., President of the Board of Control from March to December 1852.

HIDGELLEE granted to E.I.C., 1765.

HIGGINSON, Mr NAT., Governor of Madras from 1692 to 1697.

HINDIA OF HANDIYA, occupied by the British, 1820.
by treaty placed under their management, 1844.
HINDOOR held by a Rajah under E.I.C. since 1815.
HINGLAJGARH (Malwa), fort taken by the English under
Major Sinclair, July 3, 1804.

restored to Holkar, 1805.

HISLOP, Sir THOMAS, Commander-in-Chief of the Madras army, was in 1817 intrusted with the military and political command in the Deccan. On December 21, 1817, he gained the battle of Mahidpore; on February 27, 1818, captured the fort of Tabneir on the Taptee, and hanged the Killadar.

HOBART, Right Hon. Lord, Governor of Madras from September 7, 1794, to February 21, 1798.

HOBHOUSE, Sir J. C., President of the Board of Control from April 29, 1835, to September 9, 1841, and from July 10, 1846, to February 3, 1852.

HODGES, THOMAS, Governor of Bombay, 1767 to 1776. HOLKAR, MULHAR Rao, rose to power as a general under the Peishwa Bajee Rao, about 1726.

received a grant of land in Malwa, 1731.

HOLLA HONOOR subjugated by the British, 1791. HOLLOND, J., Governor of Madras from February 7, 1789, to February 13, 1790.

HOLLOND, Mr E. J., Governor of Madras from February 13, 1790, to February 20, 1790.

HOLWELL, Mr, assumed the command in Calcutta on the abandonment of his office by Mr Drake on June 19, 1756; confined in the Black Hole; survived, and wrote a narrative of his sufferings. He was dismissed the service by the Court of Directors in 1761.

HONAHWAR taken by assault by the English, 1783. ceded to Tippoo, 1784.

reverted to the E.I.C., 1798.