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 | | Impey was in India for just a little over eight years but, in this short span of time, he, together with his distinguished school-mate and the first Governor General of India, Warren Hastings, stirred up enough controversies to become the subject of a debate which still finds partisans among historians. |
 | | And Impeys recall, in 1782, was followed a few years later by his impeachment, together with that of Hastings proceedings which gave rise to some of the most brilliant flights of oratory in the history of Parliament on this and many other counts. |
 | | The work must have gone on for years, and one can almost visualise the artists bringing their work periodically to these new patrons of theirs and having them carefully examined and commented upon, much in the manner in which this was done for Indian patrons in the past. |
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