The Mohammadan dynasties in India 508

Religious policy of Akbar 514

State of India under Shah Jehán 520

End of the Moghul dynasty 525

Growth of Bombay and Calcutta 531

Quarrel of Dupleix and Labourdonnais 537

Godeheu and Dupleix 543

Fordes campaign Clive Siege of Madras 549

Inland trade duties Mír Kasim driven into 561

Clives defence His death Misgovernment in India 568

Financial dealings of Hastings 574

The Council and the Supreme Court Hastings leaves India 581

The papal power France and the Empire 587

and the Jesuits 594

Economic and judicial reforms 600

His reform schemes Policy of Venice 605

CHAPTER XVII 611

Motives of foreign service 620

CHAPTER XVIII 626

War of the Bavarian Succession 632

Judicial and penal systems Condition of peasantry 638

Financial views of Joseph II and Kaunitz 640

IN V 645

Treaty of Fontainebleau The Exchange scheme 646

Their partial withdrawal Outbreak of the Belgian revolt 653

Alienation of Peter from Catharine Bestuzheff 660

The Polish crisis on the death of Augustus III 666

Reforms under Stanislaus The Delegation Diet 672

Catharines foreign policy her own Potemkin 678

Military and civil administration 682

End of the Commission Its effects 688

Treatment of particular provinces 694

CHAPTER XX 702

Isolation of Prussia The Fürstenbund 708

Nobility bourgeoisie and peasantry 715

The Prussian Bank General dread of paper money 723

PrussoRussian alliance renewed Partition schemes 731

The Danish nation at the death of Frederick IV 737

Provisional Treaty of Exchange 743

His unpopularity 749

Fall of Guldberg Bernstorff recalled 755

CHAPTER XXII 758

The Reduction Riksdag 764

Constitution of 1772 772

The Russian War and the Anjala Confederation 778

CHAPTER XXIII 785

The opposition to Hobbes 791

The Restoration reaction AntiPuritanism 800

Lockes idea of Contract 809

Locke and Reform 815

CHAPTER XXIV 822

The moralising of nature 828

Hellenism and Romance Speculation and politics 835

The Hanoverian Succession 839

The Age of Walpole and the Pelhams 844

Jacobitism and the Union 858

Poland under the Saxon Kings 878

The Seven Years 887

Spain and Portugal 174694 900

Ireland from 170089 914

India 925

Italy and the Papacy 933

Switzerland from the Treaty of Aarau to 941

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF LEADING EVENTS 971

795 977

Reasons for English success and French failure 981

3 CLIVE AND WARREN HASTINGS 996

CHAPTER VIII 1001

T ATKINSON M A Fellow of Exeter College formerly 1014