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5 days ago · Covers the period August 1790 to December 1793, including part of the lengthy trial of Warren Hastings. House of Lords, Journals . This free content was digitised by double rekeying .
5 days ago · As he shows, a generation of British officials from Robert Clive to Warren Hastings walked backwards into their colonial future, trying to paper over the fissures and ruptures that separated them from the Indian or British pasts by talking about India’s ancient constitutions and customary rights.
4 days ago · There was a rift between these traditionalists and the contemporary thinkers of the time, such as Karsandas himself, that eventually resulted in the Maharaj Libel Case of 1862, popularly dubbed as the ''greatest trial of modern times since the trial of Warren Hastings''.
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2 days ago · In 1772, under Warren Hastings, the East India Company took over revenue collection directly in the Bengal Presidency (then Bengal and Bihar), establishing a Board of Revenue with offices in Calcutta and Patna, and moving the pre-existing Mughal revenue records from Murshidabad to Calcutta.
2 days ago · In February, 1788, was commenced the trial of Warren Hastings before the House of Commons, in Westminster Hall. This trial, it is well known, lasted nearly as long as the siege of Troy, having lingered out through seven years, and having ended in his just acquittal, in September, 1795.
2 days ago · In the hands of Clive and Hastings, it was a defensive instrument to safeguard the company’s possessions; in the hands of Wellesley, it became an offensive device with which to subject independent states to British control.
5 days ago · Lord Warren Hastings decided to take stern action against the Pindaris in order to suppress them and at the same time he decided to defeat the Maratha. This was the main reason that led to the third Anglo Maratha war.
