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Warren Hastings & Who Owns India?
Affairs in India came to a head in 1770. Lord North, then Prime Minister, passed the Regulating Act. This put the commercial running of the East India Company into the hands of its directors.
The Government of Bengal was to be administered by a Governor-General and a four man council. Britain was to appoint a Justice of the Supreme Court. The Governor-General was to be vetoed and controlled by the Nawab of Bengal, the Board of Directors and a Council.
Hastings became Governor-General in 1773. He got very little help from England, financial or material. He gathered funds locally charging the Indian Princes for protection. He did much to reform affairs in India and laid the ground rules for what would become the Indian Civil Service. Hastings finally left India in 1785. He was welcomed and honoured in England but a Parliamentary inquiry into his conduct was set afoot. His trial began in 1788 and lasted seven years. He was acquitted.
Warren Hastings |
WARREN HASTINGS (1732-1818)- Governor of Bengal from 1771
- Governor-General of British India from 1773
- From a wealthy Worcestershire family fallen on hard times
- Schooled at Westminster
- Went to India as a clerk aged 16
- Reformed revenue administration and the courts
- Organized the opium revenue
- Fought a war against the Mahrattas
- Resigned in 1784
- Burke campaigned for his impeachment
- His trial started in 1788 and continued for seven years
- Acquitted in 1795 but financially ruined
The Hastings family had to sell their family home at Daylesford in Worcestershire? Warren Hastings went to India to seek fame, power and enough money to buy his home back. He did so in 1795.
 
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