Cornwallis Code. 1793. For civil servants in India. No private trade. No Indians in important posts.

Crazy Horse. c1842-1877. Sioux Indian chief vs Custer at Little Bighorn.

Creek War. 1813-14. Creek Indians defeated by Jackson, give up lands to US.

Cripps Mission. 1942. British attempt to negotiate India’s aid in WWII.

Dalai Lama. 14C- Leader of Tibetan Buddhists. Ruled Tibet until 1959 exile to India. Lamaism. Yellow Hats. Tenzin Gyatso.

Dalhousie, First Marquess. 1812-60. British Governor General of India 1847-56. Annexed Punjab, 1849, Rangoon, Burma. Built railway, telegraph. Lapse doctrine caused Indian Mutiny.

Dawes Act. 1887. US law granting citizenship and land rights to individual Indians.

Defence of India Act. 1915. Britain. Caused Noncooperation Movement.

Delhi Pact. 1931. Civil disobedience in India ceased in exchange for prisoner release. 1950. India, Pakistan restore rights, freedom of movement for refugees.

Delhi Sultanate. 13-16C. First Indian Moslem Empire.

DeSmet, Pierre. 1801-73. French missionary to US. Mediator between settlers, Indians.

Dravidians. Invaded India, 3250-2750BC.

Dupleix, Joseph François. 1696-1763. French Administrator in India, failed to establish French Empire.

Durand Line. 1893. Divided Afghanistan from British India.

Dvaravati. 6-13C. Kingdom in Thailand. Indian culture.

Dyarchy. 1919. System of shared local/British power in India. Led to Indian autonomy.

Ecuador. 1000 Quito Indian kingdom. 15C Inca. 1534 Spain. 1822 Independent «Gran Colombia. 1830 Republic. 1832 +Galapagos.

Encomienda. 16-18C Spanish system of Indian forced labour.

Everest, George. 1790-1866. British surveyor of India.

Fallen Timbers, Battle. 1794. US defeat NW Confederation Indians, ending resistance.

Fingerprints. 8C Chinese used as signatures. 1870 Indian classification system. 1901 Galton-Henry System, Scotland Yard.

Forster, E. M. 1879-1970. English humanist novelist. Room With a View 1908. Passage to India 1924.

French-Indian Wars. 1754-63. North American part of Seven Years War. France loses all possessions in Canada to Britain.

Gama, Vasco da. c1460-1524. Portuguese explorer who rounded Cape of Good Hope 1488. Captured Calicot, India, 1503.

Gandhi, Indira. 1917-84. Indian Prime Minister 1966~84. Daughter of J. Nehru. Assassinated.

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