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As India celebrates 70 years of independence, it is time to remember that it was the first British governor-general who launched the country’s cultural renaissance in the 1780s. Of all Britain’s imperial proconsuls, Warren Hastings was the most curious and learned about Indian culture, declaring: ‘I love India a little more than my own ...
Warren Hastings was the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William, Bengal. He was the first Supreme Council of Bengal and the first ‘de facto Governor-General of India’ from 1773 to 1785. Hastings was accused of corruption in the year 1787; after a long trial he was acquitted in 1795.
Hastings, Warren (1732-1818) Governor (1772-1774) and Governor General (1774-1785) of the fort william in Bengal. Warren Hastings abandoned the policy of hesitation of his predecessors about the question of establishing political dominance in India, and bringing about a series of reforms and waging wars against the challengers to his expansionist plan and conquering new lands.
Rohilla War, (1774), in the history of India, the conflict in which Warren Hastings, British governor-general of Bengal, helped the nawab of Oudh ( Ayodhya) defeat the Rohillas by lending a brigade of the East India Company ’s troops. This action later formed a preliminary charge in a parliamentary impeachment of Hastings, but Parliament ...
Feb 23, 2024 · Warren Hastings started working for the East India Company in 1750 and later became the first Governor-General of Bengal in 1774. Initially, he was the Governor of the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal. When Mir Jafar became Nawab after the Battle of Plassey, Hastings became the British resident in the capital city of Murshidabad.
Impeachment of Warren Hastings: Towards the end of Indian career of Warren Hastings, there began a good deal of criticism in England of his high-handedness in administration. In 1782 Lord Malville Dundas moved a resolution in the Parliament for the recall of Warren Hastings, Sir Elijah Impey, Lawrence Sullivan etc. Ultimately only Elijah Impey was recalled and the proposal for the recall of others was dropped.
[1 -- Warren Hastings's distinguished but ruined family; his orphaned, bookish childhood] We are inclined to think that we shall best meet the wishes of our readers, if, instead of minutely examining this book, we attempt to give, in a way necessarily hasty and imperfect, our own view of the life and character of Mr. Hastings.
