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$English, teaching of, in schools, i. 137, 138, 141. ^ r Europeans and Eurasians, education of, and its difficulties, i. 142; hospital ward for Europeans, 128, Euthydemus (Graeco-Bactrian), his ex- tension of Greek power in India, i. 19. Excise (net) revenue, .a statistical table of, i. 121, its incidence per head, 121, in respect of liquor, in Patiala State, ii. 296 ; in JInd, 321 ; in Nabha, 334. Exogamy, as obligation to marry outside the tribe, among Hindus and Sikhs, i. 45- Expenditure and Income, of Province, Municipalities, and District Boards, tables of, i. 159-162. Exports and Imports, with rest of India, i. 86-88 {see Tables VI, VII, pp. 156,157); with Chinese Tibet and Kabul, 88 ; of Delhi, 299 ; of Lahore, ii. 23. F. Factories and mills, using steam power, tables showing their great extension of, i. 83; cotton mills, 83 ; woollen mills, 84; Indian Factories Act, 84; wages in, 85 ; at Delhi, 299; at Lahore, ii. 39 ; at Amritsar, 48. P'amine, i. 93-97 ; liability of two tracts, in the south-east about Hissar, and in north-west Districts, 93, 94; after- effects of cholera and malaria, and impaired vitality, more fatal than famine itself, 96; extension of railways and irrigation as palliatives and protectives, 96, 97 ; a history of famines from 1783 to 1900, 94-96 ; diminishes litigious- ness, 104; some local references to; Hissar District, 237, Hansi, Hissar town, and Sirsa depopulated by famine {chdltsa) of 1783, 244-246 ; Rohtak, 255) 256; Gurgaon, 271, 272; Delhi, 286, 287; Karnal, 309, 310; Ambala, 328, 329; Ludhiana till the Sirhind Canal, 431; Ferozepore, 445, 446 ; Sharakpur, ii. 24; Gujrat, 117, 118; Jhelum, 149. See tinder Famine in Districts and States. Famine in Patiala State, ii. 292; Jlnd, 319- Farldabad, town in Delhi District, i. 300. Faridkot, Native State under political control of the Jullundur Commissioner, ii. 401, 402. Faridkot town and fort, capital of State and residence of Raja, ii. 402. Farrukhnagar, town in Gurgaon District, i. 276, 277, a salt depot, 270, 276; Delhi Gate, palace, and mosque dating from Faujdar Khan (1732), 277. Fatahabad, tahsil of Hissar District, i. 241. Fatahabad town, founded (1352) by FIroz Shah, i. 243. Fatahjang, tahsil of Attock District, ii. 182. Fatehgarh (or Sirhind), tahsil of Patiala State, ii. 301. Fauna, i. 12, 13; lions, tigers, and wild elephants practically now extinct, 12, general view of wild animals still com- monly found, 12 ; common birds, game and other, 12, 13; reptiles, crocodiles, and poisonous snakes, 13; rohu and mahseer, the commonest fish, 13; in- sects, 13; of Himalayas, fact and ex- planation of difference between fauna of forest area and of Peninsula, 176,177. See under Fauna in each District and State. Fazilka, tahsil of Ferozepore District, i. 45®* Fazilka town, a railway terminus and grain mart, i. 451. Felidae, or cat tribe, i. 12. P^emale education, its steady progress, i. 140. Ferozepore, District in Jullundur Division, i. 437-455 ; a flat, dusty, healthy plain, 438, 439 ; its political and economical history of wars and the vagaries of the Sutlej, 439-442 ; cattle, horses, and sheep, 444 ; bibliography, 448. Ferozepore tahsil, i. 448, 449. Ferozepore town,head-quarters ofDistrict, an important cantonment- and arsenal, i. .^151, 452; its commercial prosperity due to Sir H. Lawrence and an English cotton-press, 452 ; its Sikh temple in honour of Sikhs who fell at Forts Saragarhi and Gulistan in 1897, 452. Ferozeshah (Pharushahr), field of well- contested battle in first Sikh War in Ferozepore District, i. 452, 453. Ferries, i. 92 ; income of District boards from, 162. See under Hill and River Systems and Means of Communication in each District. Festivals and holidays, the chief Hindu and Muhammadan, i. 56 ; great Sikh festival at Muktsar, 455 ; encourage trade, ii. 53, and contagious diseases, i. 43. See also Pilgrimage, Places of Shrines, Tanks, Temples. Finance, i. 105-109; revenue from all sources under and immediately after Ranjit Singh, 105, 106 ; periodical settlements of financial relations be- tween Local and Supreme Governments since 1877,106-109; noticeable features of last settlement of 1905, 108, 109. See Expenditure, Income, Revenue. Financial Commissioner, his wide sphere of duty, i. 98, 105. FIrozpur, tahsil of Gurgaon District, i. 275-$

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