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    officers
    passages to (and from) India 94–5, 102–3, 104–5, 106–7
    arrival in India 113–14, 116–17, 118
    O’Halloran, Lieutenant 477
    Olivey, Second Lieutenant 344
    Olpherts, General Sir William, VC 318, 335
    opium 434–5
    Order of the Bath 323
    Order of British India 324–5
    Order of the Star of India 82, 505
    Oriental and Peninsular Steam Navigation Company 96
    Orissa 49
    Osborne, Captain the Hon. W. G. xxiv, 8–9, 31–2, 62
    Osborne, Lieutenant Willoughby 198–9
    Oudh 41, 49, 54, 70
    annexation of (1856) 71
    Outram, Major General Sir James 34, 75, 78, 165, 185–6, 390, 433–4
    Outram Institutes 434
    pachesi 441
    paddle-steamers 92, 95
    Pakhtunwali 195, 205, 210
    Palmer, General Sir Arthur Power 450, 454, 455
    Palmer, General William 442
    Palmer, Captain William [son] 442
    Panipat, major battles at 35 1399 38 1526 38–9 1556 39 1761 54
    parrots, as pets 174
    Parry, Lieutenant Colonel Frederick 481
    Parwandara, action (1842) 320
    Pates, Major Augustus 130
    Pathans 194–5, 196
    Pattoun, Lieutenant Colonel Richard 386
    pay and expenditure 264–70, 272
    Payne, Private George 164
    Pearman, Sergeant John xxiv, 98–9, 114, 125–6, 149, 159, 164, 283, 318, 325, 341, 369, 406, 464, 502
    at Sobraon (1846) 9, 10, 15
    Pearson, Cornet Thomas 277
    Peat, Captain 378
    peg [drink] 418–19
    Pennycuick, Alexander 229
    Pennycuick, Brigadier John 229, 276, 322, 378, 379–80
    Pennycuik, Colonel John, RE 29
    pensions, officers’ widows’ 486
    Periyar Dam 29
    Perkes, Private Richard 17–18, 94, 236
    Peshawar 26, 55, 61, 75, 140, 205, 209–10, 307
    Peshawar Valley Field Force 82, 211
    Pester, Lieutenant John 276, 290, 376–7, 420–1
    Petit, Lieutenant Colonel 12, 13, 14, 18
    pettahs 374
    Phayre, Sir Arthur 198
    Picton, Major 478, 479
    ‘Piffers’ 197
    pig-sticking 167–71
    pig-sticking spears, in battle 353
    Pindaris 42, 288
    pistols 362, 363–4
    Pitt, William, the Elder 51–2
    planters 147–8
    Plassey, battle (1757) 47–8, 275
    Pohlmann, Colonel 41
    Polighars 288
    political officers 198, 213
    Pollock, Lieutenant General Sir George 58, 324, 398
    Pomfret, George 450
    Pondicherry 49
    Ponsonby, Captain 320–1
    Poona, Peshwa of 54, 55
    Poona Tent Club 167
    Pope, Brigadier 369–70, 370–1
    population xxi
    Porter, Mary Anne 496
    Porter, Gunner William 460, 496
    Potter, Private H.J. 131
    Potter, Samuel, The Art of Beating the Drum (1810) 4
    preaching colonels 461
    Presgrave, Ann 109
    Price, Lieutenant William 165–6
    priests, Roman Catholic, at Lucknow 464, 465–6
    Primrose, Lieutenant General 35
    princely states 83
    Prinsep, Mrs Thoby 153
    Prinsep, Val 82
    prisoners, British, treatment of 292
    prize agents 276
    prize money 274–8
    Probert, Mrs 486
    proselytising 461
    prostitution 436, 480–1, 482–3
    Puller, Private George 479–80
    Punjab 63, 66, 72
    annexation of (1849) 69
    climate 31–2
    Punjab Frontier 194
    Punjab, Governor of the 192
    Punjab Irregular Frontier Force 192–3, 197, 212
    Punjab Northern State Railway 26
    Punjabis 296–7
    Punniar, battle (1843) 1–2, 61
    Purvis, Captain (later Revd) Richard John 99, 102, 134, 190, 248, 251, 269–70, 504
    Purvis, Rear Admiral John 268
    Purvis, Richard Fortescue 268, 269, 481–2
    Pushtuns 193, 194–5
    quartermasters 219
    Queen’s India Cadets 253
    railways, development of 25–7
    Rajkumar College 83
    Rajputs 36, 259
    Ramnagar, battle (1848) 68, 360, 368–9
    Ramsay, Henry 198
    Ranjit Singh, Maharaja 55, 61–2, 201, 305–6
    ranks
    in Indian units 261, 262
    in Royal Artillery 54on.go
    Raynor, Lieutenant 344
    recreations, soldiers’ 159
    Reed, Major General Thomas 77, 209
    Rees, L. E. 393, 452
    regimental mascots 175
    regiments
    104th Foot (Bengal Fusiliers) 485–6
    Agra Volunteer Horse 148
    regiments— cont.
    Beatson’s Horse 360
    Bengal European Cavalry 253
    Bengal European Fusiliers 1st 235, 346–7, 425–6 2nd xxiv, 230, 236, 238, 425–6, 473–4
    Bengal European Regiment 11–12, 244, 344, 402 1st 130
    Bengal Horse Artillery 162, 235–6,