INDEX

ABBOTTABAD, 2095
Abi-i-Panja River, 69
Abraham, 43
Abu, Mount, 132
Adam’s Bridge, 192; Peak, 193
Aeng Pass, 173
Afghan-Baluch Plateau, 42 ; War,
28, 101
Afghanistan, 27, 243, 249 ; Amir
of, 74, 251; boundaries of, 28,
59; “buffer” between Russia
and India, 67; ethnography of,
95 ; cultivation of, 94; frontier
railways of, 78; independence
of, 251; Northern Turkestan,
Province of, 61; plateau of, 84 ;
progress of, 91 ; railway requirements
 of, 94; relative position
of three chief cities of, 87; resources
 of, 94 ; routes on northern
frontier, 70; Russian position
north of, 63; statistics of, 56;
trade of, 91 ; uplands, beauty of
landscape, 82
Afghans, the, 28, 51, 83, 213
Africa, 320
Afridi Hills, 77
Afridis, the, 76, 213
Agra, 147, 298, 301
Agriculture, 255
Ahmad Shah, go
Ahmadnagar, 22
Ahmedabad, 305, 344
Aim4ks, 56
Ajanta, caves of, 306
Ajmere, 246
Ajmere-Merwana, 230
Ajmir, 205, 305
Ajodhya, 147
Akbar, the Emperor, 210, 204
Akcha, 61, 62
Aksu River, 67, 6g
Akyab, 173, 175
Alaknanda River, 119

Alaska, 320
Albuquerque, 312
Alexander the Great, 16, 49, 52, 54,
70, 86, 98, 99, 202, 295: routes
of, 13, 14
Ali Masjid, fortress of, 74
Allahabad, 142, 298, 3co0, 306
Almorah, 128
Alor, 292
Alpine elevations compared with
British and Himalayan, 122
Alps, Bernese, 122
Alwar, 30%
\Amarkantak, 151, 153, 155
imbér, 206
umherst, 175
Amir Abdur Rahman, go
umirapura, 187
Amritsar, 210
Anamali Hills, 132
Andaman Islands, 6, 222, 230, 231
Andamanese, the, 222
Andarab, 86
Andkhui, 60, 62
Anglo-Russian Boundary Commission,
 60
Antiokhus, 60
Anuradapura, 196, 197
Arabia, 20; Arabian Sea, 5, 42, 45,
118; Arabs, 21, 26, 33, 47, 54;
Saracen, 17; Arab influence,
diffusion of, 20; routes over
High Asia, 17
Arakan, 173, 174; products of,
174 ; river, 173
Aravelli Mountains, 7, 9, 132
Arcot, 164
Argand4b Valley, 94
Arghasdn Valley, 94
Arnawai River, 69
Arnold, Sir Edwin, 191
Arrian, 52, 53, 55
Art industries, 273
Arvans, the, 53, 202, 204