Peter the Great, covert advance to India, 143; checkmated by Nadir Shah, _ib._
Pindharies, freebooters in the Mahratta armies, 104; horrible raids in British territory, 110; George Canning's denunciations, 111; campaign of Lord Hastings, 113; extinction of the gangs, 115
Pitt, Thomas, Governor of Madras, 29; his diamond, 30
Pitt, William, the younger, his India Bill, 75; creates a Board of Control, 76; marvellous statesmanship, 137
Pollock, General, avenges the British losses in the Khyber, 151; relieves Sale and restores British prestige, 152
Pondicherry, French settlement, 32; British carried prisoners to, _ib._
Poona, head-quarters of the Sivaji family, 71; capital of the Mahratta Peishwas, _ib._; interference of Bombay, 72, 73; negotiations of Lord Wellesley, 86; flight of the Peishwa to Bassein, 92; subsidiary alliance, _ib._; intrigues, 112, 113; British residency burnt, 116; incorporated with the Bombay Presidency, 119
Portuguese in India, their fortresses, 3; thwart the British at Surat, 4; intermarriages with the British at Madras, 12; slave trade, 19; settlement at Hughly, 20; destroyed by the Great Mogul, 21
Provinces, regulation and non-regulation, 166, 289; distinction effaced, 297
Punjab, Sikh rule under Runjeet Singh, 102; relations with the British government, 103; attitude in the first Afghan war, 146; opened to British troops after the death of Runjeet Singh, 147; a Sikh army under French officers a menace to Hindustan, 153; review of Sikh history, 154; army of the Khalsa, 156; anarchy, 157; despotism of the army, _ib._; Sikh invasion of British India, 158; Aliwal and Sobraon, 159; end of first Sikh war, 160; mixed government, _ib._; revolt at Multan, 161; second Sikh war, 162; Chillianwalla, 163; Goojerat, 164; annexation, 165; patriarchal rule, 166; non-regulation system, _ib._; land settlement, 167; frontier province of India on the north-west, facing Afghanistan and Cashmere, 186; musketry school at Sealkote, 193; John Lawrence, chief commissioner, sends the Punjab "Guides" to Delhi, 222; disaffection of Bengal sepoy regiments, 224; valley of Peshawar, 225; Sikh volunteers, 226; John Nicholson, the sainted warrior, 227; difficulties of John Lawrence, 228; fall of Delhi, 231