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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 ...
Jan 1, 2022 · Hastings, Warren. Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of Indian Religions ( (EIR)) Among the pioneers of British colonialism in Mughal Bengal, Warren Hastings, the first Governor-General of India appointed by the British East India Company (EIC), was a true Janus-faced statesman. Unlike his predecessor Governor Robert Clive (1724–1774) who ...
[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.
Nov 11, 2017 · 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. 1732–1818. Warren Hastings, who would become governor-general of Bengal, was born in Oxfordshire, England. His mother died shortly after his birth, and his father disappeared in the West Indies. Hastings was raised by an uncle and, after the uncle died, a relative who worked for the East India Company.
In the pleasant Evenlode Valley, where Oxfordshire borders on Gloucestershire, was born, in 1732, the man who was destined to play the part of Augustus to Clive’s Caesar in the British empire of India. Warren Hastings, deprived by death of a mother in his infancy, was abandoned soon afterwards by his father. He was brought up in the house of ...
WARREN HASTINGS was born in England in 1732. His Mother died at his birth. His Father left him an unwelcome charge upon his uncle, Howard Hastings, a clerk in the customs house. The boy received a primary education in Westminster School where he showed brilliant talents. But when he was seventeen his uncle died and his new guardian
