The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c27.4

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Anvar-ud-dīn, made Nawāb of Arcot, 384; killed, 387 Aonla, 431 Āqā Khusrav, 255, 285 ‘Āqil Husain Mirzā, 94 Arab, mercenaries, 426; culture in Sind, 569 *arāba*, 12, 17 Arab Sarai, 531 Arakan, Shāh Shujā‘ in, 226; pirates of, 236–7; history of, 476–82; Arakanese take Syriam and Pegū, 493 Ārām Bānū Begam, 102 Arangāon, 387 Arārū Singh, 355 Arāvalli range, 249 Architecture, chap. xviii *passim*; Bābur on Indian, 523–4; Byzantine, 524; Sayyid and Afghān, 525–6, 532; of Sūrs, 526–9; of Tughluqs and Khaljīs, 528–9; Mughal style based on Timurid, 532, 534; Rājput style, 535; of Hindu temples, 547; Bijāpur style, 547; secular Hindu style, 548; Persian style, 552; change under Shāh Jahān, 553–4; Assyrian and Achaemenid influence, 556; in marble and brick, 559; at Lahore, 559–61; decline under Aurangzīb, 566; in Sind, 568–9; of ‘Ādil Shāhs, 570–4; Ottoman influence at Bijāpur, 572; of Khāndesh, 575–6 Arcot, 256, 291, 293; taken by Nizām, 368, 384; by Muzaffar Jang and Chanda Sāhib, 387 *Arcot* (ship), 505 Arjan Singh, Gurū, 157, 244–5 Arjumand Bānū, *see* Mumtāz Mahall, 163 Armenians, 510 Army, Sher Shāh’s, 56; Islām Shāh’s reorganisation, 63–4; Akbar’s branding rules, 109; his *mansabdārs* (officers), unpopularity of branding rules, 110; revolts in Bihār and Bengal, 125; administration of, 133; unrest in Akbar’s in Deccan, 144, 145; reorganised by Shāh Jahān, 203 n. 1, 218; mercenary under Mughuls, 241; classification and number of Aurangzīb’s, 316; size and discontent of Bājī Rāo’s, 355; discipline in Nādir Shāh’s, 362 and n. 2; decay of Mughul power due to demoralisation of, 374–6; equipment of Nizām’s, 380; French artillery in Peshwā’s, 390, 417; mutiny in Mughul, 415; numbers at Pānīpat, 419 n. 2; Bayinnaung’s, 486 n. 2 Ārnī, 279 Artillery, used by Bābur, 12, 17, 18, 19; by Gujarāt against Chitor, 23; by Humāyūn at Chunār, 29; at battle near Kanauj, 34–5; of Hīmū captured, 72; used by Mughuls against Rājputs, 249; at siege of Golconda, 288; drilled by French, 390; at Bassein, 406; at Udgīr, 413; at Pānīpat, 420; French captured by Alaungpaya, 506–7, 516; Siamese, 515 Arwal, 441