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	Warren Hastings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Warren Hastings (December 6, 1732 - August 22, 1818) was the first governor-general of British India, from 1773 to 1786.
		Warren Hastings was born 6th December 1732 at Churchill, Oxfordshire.
		Hastings had a great respect for the ancient scripture of Hinduism and fatefully set the British position on governance as one of looking back to the earliest precedents possible.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Warren_Hastings (629 words)

	WARREN HASTINGS - LoveToKnow Article on WARREN HASTINGS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hastings was soon released at the intercession of the Dutch resident, and made use of his position at Murshidabad to open negotiations with the English fugitives at Falta, the site of a Dutch factory near the mouth of the Hugh.
		Warren Hastings, as a deliberate measure of cy, withheld the tribute due to the emperor, and resold ihabad and Kora to the wazIr of Oudh.
		Hastings resolved to make a progress up country in order to arrange the affairs of both provinces, and bring back all the treasure that could be squeezed out of its holders by his personal intervention.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HA/HASTINGS_WARREN.htm (5237 words)

	Hastings, Warren. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Hastings went back (1769) to India as a member of the Madras council and became (1772) governor of Bengal, immediately embarking on a course of judicial and financial reform, law codification, and the suppression of banditry, measures that laid the foundation of direct British rule in India.
		In the succeeding years Hastings was greatly hampered by opposition in the council, especially from Sir Philip Francis.
		Hastings resigned (1784) and returned to England, where he was charged with high crimes and misdemeanors by Edmund Burke and Sir Philip Francis, whom he had wounded in a duel in India.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ha/HastngsW.html (461 words)

	Critical and Historical Essays Volume 1 - Warren Hastings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Warren, the son of Pynaston, was born on the sixth of December, 1731.
		It was also agreed that Hastings should bestow some very substantial marks of gratitude on the complaisant husband, and should, when the marriage was dissolved, make the lady his wife, and adopt the children whom she had already borne to Imhoff.
		When Hastings took his seat at the head of the council-board, Bengal was still governed according to the system which Clive had devised, a system which was, perhaps, skilfully contrived for the purpose of facilitating and concealing a great revolution, but which, when that revolution was complete and irrevocable, could produce nothing but inconvenience.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/hst/european/CriticalandHistoricalEssaysVolume1/chap43.html (4974 words)

	Macaulay's Essay, "Impeachment Of Warren Hastings."
		But those who, within the last ten years, have listened with delight, till the morning sun shone on the tapestries of the House of Lords, to the lofty and animated eloquence of Charles Earl Grey, are able to form some estimate the powers of a race of men among whom he was not the foremost.
		The wish of Hastings and of his counsel was that the managers should open all the charges, and produce all the evidence for the prosecution, before the defence began.
		The process, the impeachment of Warren Hastings, was to grind on for more than seven years and was to occupy 145 sittings of parliament.
	www.blupete.com /Literature/Essays/Best/MacaulayImpeachHastings.htm (2088 words)

	Berkshire History: Biographies: Warren Hastings (1732-1818)
		Hastings was opposed to what has been called the 'forward' policy in India and he annexed almost nothing to the already vast territories of the Company.
		Hastings - having bought Beaumont Lodge and rented Purley Hall, both in Berkshire - prepared his defence well and was, at last, triumphantly acquitted of all the charges brought against him.
		Without importunity, but with quiet steadiness, Hastings continued to demand that the House of Commons should follow the decision of the Lords and reverse or expunge from their journals the votes of 1787, which he felt to have stained his name.
	www.berkshirehistory.com /bios/whastings.html (1565 words)

	History of Nova Scotia, Index of Dates, 1788.
		Warren Hastings was the English governor in India and returned to England.
		Hastings had consolidated, out of enumerable princedoms, one country, India under English rule which was for England a vast empire.
		On February 13, 1788 the court was opened and the "Impeachment of Warren Hastings" was to take place; it was to grind on for seven years.
	www.blupete.com /Hist/Dates/1788.htm (266 words)

	§8. Warren Hastings. I. Edmund Burke. Vol. 11. The Period of the French Revolution. The Cambridge History of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The history of Warren Hastings’s government has been the subject of careful investigation, and, whatever we may think of his faults, he was certainly no Verres.
		Burke’s whole treatment of that great case was vitiated by his determination to find the sole motive of every crime with which Hastings was charged in a base, selfish, corrupt cupidity,—“Money is the beginning, the middle, and the end of every kind of act done by Mr.
		Hastings was not scrupulous in his choice of means, and he was responsible for acts both of extortion and cruelty, but the motives which actuated them were public not private, the service of the company and the preservation of British rule in India at a season of the utmost peril.
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	The Great Debates - Burke vs. Hastings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Warren Hastings was an honourable man who tried to do the best in difficult circumstances.
		Hastings had somehow to impose an order on his ragbag of responsibilities as well as filling the pockets of the East India Company's shareholders.
		Hastings was compelled to wage war: first to contain and suppress the predatory warrior elites such as the Rohillas and then, as part of Britain's conflict with its global rival, France, which had reopened in 1778.
	www.bbc.co.uk /religion/programmes/misc/great_debates_script_3-2.shtml (427 words)

	Manas: History and Politics, British India, Warren Hastings
		Hastings supported the kingdom of Awadh [Oudh] against the depredations of the Rohillas, chieftains of Afghani descent, and he took measures to contain the Marathas, though they could not be prevented from capturing Agra, Mathura, and even Delhi, the seat of the Mughal Empire.
		Hastings concluded treaties with various other Indian rulers and sought alliances against the powerful forces of Haider Ali in the Carnatic.
		Warren Hastings occupies, in other respects as well, an unusual place in the annals of British India.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /southasia/History/British/Hastings.html (325 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Hastings, Warren
		Hastings was born in 1732 in Daylesford, Worcestershire.
		In 1787 Richard Sheridan delivered his speech on the case of the “Begums of Oudh” in which Hastings was accused of violating a guarantee given to the mother and grand-daughter of the Nawab Wazir of Oudh, resulting in the Company confiscation of property and treasure.
		In Burke\'s speeches Hastings became a literary event—an image of Gothic tyranny that both drew upon and fuelled the narrative conventions of Gothic romance in which libertine threats to the female body and the specifically male prerogative to ward these off, were evoked.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2026 (1085 words)

	Source 9 \| Useful Notes
		Warren Hastings was the Governor of Bengal from 1773 onwards.
		Hastings also encouraged British officials in India to study Indian languages and culture in order to understand and govern the people better.
		Hastings was acquitted, but the controversy led to the end of his career as a politician.
	www.learningcurve.gov.uk /empire/usefulnotes/g1cs3s9u.htm (213 words)

	webindia123.com-Indian History-Modern-British Governors and Governor Generals-Lord Warren Hasting
		Warren Hastings concluded that the policy of non intervention had to be done with.
		Warren Hastings brought reforms in the social, economic and political affairs of the people.
		Warren Hastings ensured the liberty of the press which was restricted during the time of Wellesley The first Vernacular paper was published called 'Samachar Darpan' In the year 1823 William Hastings resigned and for a period of seven months a senior member of the Calcutta Council took charge in 1823.
	www.webindia123.com /history/modern/general2.htm (901 words)

	III. At the Trial of Warren Hastings by Edmund Burke. Ireland (1775-1902). Vol. VI. Bryan, William Jennings, ed. 1906. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		At the Trial of Warren Hastings by Edmund Burke.
		Born in 1729, died in 1797; elected to Parliament in 1766; Privy Councilor in 1782; conducted the impeachment of Warren Hastings in 1787–95, having resigned his seat in Parliament.
		It was of this speech that Hastings said, “For the first half hour, I looked up to the orator in a reverie of wonder, and during that time I felt myself the most culpable man on earth.” Burke spoke during four sittings, beginning on February 13.
	www.bartleby.com /268/6/3.html (1691 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Trial of Warren Hastings
		Warren Hastings (1732-1818) was one of the most important and controversial British administrators of India.
		Although Hastings was impeached on only seven of the twenty-two charges that Burke had originally brought before Parliament, the subsequent trial in the House of Lords lasted six years, until July of 1795.
		Hastings was eventually acquitted on all counts, but despite that acquittal and the considerable sympathy he had attracted during the course of his trial, his reputation was irreparably damaged, and he spent the remaining years of his life in comparative obscurity.
	www.litencyc.com /php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1142 (665 words)

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		In 1763 Hastings applied to the Company’s council desiring to construct a bridge across the Tolly’s Nallah to “my garden house.” This presumably is the Zeerut Bridge in Alipore today.
		It is history that a deadly duel between Warren Hastings and his legal officer, Philip Francis, was fought on the lush green compound of the Belvedere House.
		Confronting a grave crisis Hastings and Francis struck a deal that their rights over the lady should be established by a draw of pistols.
	www.indiaprofile.com /heritage/belvederehouse.htm (954 words)

	The Baldwin Project: Our Empire Story by H. E. Marshall
		The death of Nuncomar removed Hastings' greatest enemy, and because he was Hastings' enemy, and because one of the judges was Hastings' friend, it was said that the Governor-General had tried to have Nuncomar hanged.
		Nuncomar was hanged, not because he was Hastings' enemy, but because he was found guilty of forgery, and, according to the ideas of the time, was deserving of death.
		Meantime, while Hastings was struggling to hold and rule British India, the government at home was flinging away the colonies on the other side of the world, for the war of American Independence had begun.
	www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=marshall&book=empire&story=warren2 (2412 words)

	Dawning of the Raj (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bogle, like Hastings who had first arrived in India at the age of eighteen in 1750, entered the Company at the only rank possible, the lowest—that of "writer." This was a term of art which had been taken over from the Dutch "schryvers." The writers were clerks.
		Hastings had the idea that Bogle might establish a "residence" in Lhasa—something that did not happen until the twentieth century and then only by force of arms.
		Hastings goes on: "I am afraid it may look like an ill compliment to tell you that I have endeavoured to prevail on the writer to put it into a more connected form, and to send it, with some additional materials, to England for publication.
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	Walter Wilkins' Dispute with William Pitt
		This argument centred round the impeachment of Warren Hastings the Governor-General of India.
		Hastings acted to remove this situation, stripped the Nabob of his remaining powers and cancelled the annual tribute to the Mughal Emperor.
		Walter Wilkins being the Member of Parliament for Radnorshire and was thus an ally in the House of Commons for Warren Hastings during these impeachment proceedings.
	www.angelfire.com /md/wilkins/walter_wilkins.html (707 words)

	Hastings Family Genealogy Page
		Thomas Hastings (1605-85) emigrated from England on the "Elizabeth" to Watertown, MA 1634, m.
		Honorable John Hastings (1738-1811) Magistrate of Hatfield, MA and Delegate of the 3rd Provincial Congress, m.
		The Hastings family fled to Mt. Vernon from their northern Ohio home after the 1812 Hull Surrender to escape the Indians; and they returned to their home in Erie County by 1820.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Acres/1150/hastings.html (431 words)

	Warren Hastings Biography / Biography of Warren Hastings Main Biography
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		The English statesman Warren Hastings (1732-1818) was the first governor general of British India.
		Warren Hastings was born on Dec. 6, 1732, in Churchill, near Daylesford, of an old but poor family.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-warren-hastings (245 words)

	Retirement and impeachment (from Hastings, Warren) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Part of the largest automotive industrial sector of the United States, the city of Warren is a northern suburb of Detroit in southeastern Michigan, west of Lake St. Clair.
		As chief justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969, Earl Warren presided during a period of sweeping changes in United States constitutional law, especially in the areas of race relations, criminal procedure, and legislative apportionment.
		Warren is also remembered for heading a committee that investigated the 1963 assassination of...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-3052?tocId=3052 (855 words)

	Stories and Songs About the Hastings Diamond
		During the impeachment process of Warren Hastings, a large diamond was gifted to the king, soon believed to be the price of the acquittal of Hastings.
		While the impeachment of Warren Hastings in 1786 was pending, a circumstance occurred which told against him in the popular feeling, and the suspicions current that Queen Charlotte, who was generally believed to be avaricious, had sold her favour for Indian presents.
		In one of these, Hastings was represented wheeling in a barrow the king, with his crown and sceptre, observing, "What a man buys, he may sell." In another, the king was exhibited on his knees, with his mouth wide open, and Warren Hastings throwing diamonds into it.
	www.jjkent.com /articles/hastings-diamond-bribery.htm (815 words)

	Manas: History and Politics, British India, review of Suleri's Beyod Alterity
		64), the trial of Warren Hastings was routinely summoned in the colonial record as an instance of the unique capacity of Britain (and the West) for self-criticism, of Britain's adherence to norms of justice and fairness and its impulse towards decency, and of the colonial power's mechanisms for safeguarding itself against its own excesses.
		It is this picture of Hastings and Burke as implacable antagonists that Suleri, in the first instance, seeks to disrupt.
		Burke was evidently more concerned, for example, about the effect of the ill-begotten riches of Hastings and other nabobs on English politics, the diminishing influence of the aristocracy, and the consequences of the entry of plebeians into the political life of England than he was about the political future or cultural life of India.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /southasia/History/British/Suleri.html (1682 words)

	Untitled
		In 1772, Sir Warren Hastings became Governor-General [the chief adminstrative post in India at the time, roughly equivalent to Royal Governor of a Crown Colony] of Bengal.
		Appalled at the large number of "pity tyrants" among his officer staff, Hastings was one of the first persons to fully realize the detrimental effects that resulted from the lack of proper training.
		Hastings may have appreciated these languages as a namateur scholar, but he appreciated them all the more for facilitating British rule.
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	Burke's Law
		At the end of the 18th century the impeachment of Warren Hastings, former governor general of British India, on accusations of financial and judicial excess in his dealings with provincial officials, was somewhat less outrageous and had a happier outcome: Hastings was acquitted.
		For instance, he is severe on Edmund Burke, the chief prosecutor and persecutor of Hastings, and indeed Burke comes off badly in the story.
		Indeed, since the Hastings impeachment got under way in 1787, before the French Revolution started, he set the Jacobins an example of what demagogic oratory and contempt for due process could achieve.
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