INDEXKondavidu 178
Kongunad 10
Korean war 320
Koshala 9, 48–50, 54, 56, 119
Kosimbazar 218
Kosygin, A.N. 324
Kot Diji (prehistoric site) 18, 22–3, 26, 29
Krishna (god) 44, 80, 110
Bhaktas and 132, 136
cult of 139–40
Krishna (river) 1, 10, 114, 172, 178, 180
Krishna I (king of Rashtrakutas) 113
Krishna II (king of Rashtrakutas) 108
Krishna III (king of Rashtrakutas) 108–9
Krishna-Godavari Delta 9, 92, 97–8
Krishnadeva Raya (king of Vijayanagar)
174, 179–82
Krittibas (poet) 172
Kshatrapas (provincial governors) 73–4, 78,
83–4
Kshatriya (caste) 39–40, 51, 56, 110
theory of colonisation of Southeast Asia
143
Kubera (god) 119
Kujala Kadphises (king of Kushanas) 74
Kulottunga I (king of Cholas and
Chalukyas) 109, 117, 132
Kumara (war god) 87
Kumara Ghosh (Buddhist monk) 149
Kumaradevi (queen of Chandragupta I) 81
Kumaragupta 82, 87–9
Kumarasambhava (poem) 87
Kumaratunge, Chandrika 332
Kundunga (Indonesian ruler) 145
‘Kurukshetra’ 43, 47
Kurus (people) 43, 49–50
Kuruvars (tribe) 93
Kushanas (dynasty) 5, 72–83, 85, 96, 102
Kyanzittha (king of Burma) 117
Kyros (Persian emperor) 53
La Bourdonnais, Admiral Bertrand
François Mahé de 206, 212–13
Labour Party (Britain) 274, 279
Lahore 157, 167, 249, 285, 324
Lakhnau see Lucknow
Lakhnaur173
Lakshmana Sena (king of Bengal) 157
Lalitaditya (king of Kashmir) 105, 107,
163
Lally, General Thomas-Arthur Comte de 215
land
grants: to Brahmins 93, 128–9; to military
officers 189
reform in republic 296, 298, 302
revenue under British 227, 229–30, 234,
236–7, 249–50, 272, 275
see also taxation
landlords under British 227, 229–30, 234,
245–6, 275, 298
language 15, 29–33
in ancient empires 78, 81, 91–2, 98
Apabhramsha 142
Arabic 195, 235
Aramaic 51
Dravidian 15, 32, 92, 246, 301
in early civilisations 29–33, 36, 38
in early middle ages 142–3
English 234–5
and freedom movement 259, 262
Gujarati 198, 247
Hindi 15, 142, 195, 239, 244, 259, 261, 300,
308
Kannada 246–7
Magadhi 78
Malayalam 246, 301
Marathi 15, 142, 172, 247, 258
Oriya 142
Pali 92, 144
Persian 73, 184, 195, 235
Prakrit 78, 92, 142
Sanskrit 29, 32, 78, 81, 85, 87–8, 92, 114,
135–6, 142, 145–9, 235
Sindhi 247
Tamil 15, 93, 98–9, 117–18, 144, 246
Telugu 15, 179, 246, 301
under British 231, 234–5, 244–6
under Mughals 195
Urdu 195, 244–5, 259, 284
Las Bela (prehistoric site) 2
late middle ages 152–84; see also Delhi,
sultanate of and under Islam
Law, John 206
law
Code of Manu 81, 164
Hindu, reform of 297
under British, 240–1; and Indian 227–9
League Against Imperialism 271
legislation see Acts
Leur, J.C. van 145
Liaquat Ali Khan 290
liberal nationalists 262–3; freedom
movement and 259–61
Licchavis (people) 54, 81
Lingam (phallic symbol of Shiva) 129, 134–5
Lingayat sect 141
Linlithgow, Lord (viceroy) 278–80, 286
literature
in ancient empires 47–9, 52, 56–62, 70, 73,
87–8, 91–4, 96, 98–102
in early civilisations 33–4, 36–7, 42, 43–6
in early middle ages 132, 138, 141–3
in late middle ages 163, 173, 179, 181
under British 234, 242, 244, 248
see also individual texts
Lodi, Ibrahim (sultan of Delhi) 185