HASTINGS, Warren [1732-1818] -- British colonial administrator, governor-general of India
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A protégé of Lord Clive, who established British rule in India, Hastings carried out major reforms, and became governor of Bengal in 1772, and governor-general of all India in 1773. Impeached for corruption on his return to England in 1785, he was acquitted in 1795.
He went to India in 1750 at age 18 as a "writer", the lowest grade of clerk. Twenty-three years later he was governor-general. When he retired and returned to England, he was impeached on charges of maladministration and extortion, and tried in a largely political trial driven by his enemies. The trial lasted seven years and he was ultimately acquitted, but was brought to financial ruin in the process. The British East India Company undertook to support him after the trial.
His rumored mistress, Philadelphia Austen, was aunt of Jane Austen, the novelist. 
Milestones |
1773-1784 | first governor-general of all India |
Bookmarks (off-site links) |
- Vivísimo - Clustered search on warren hastings
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- Analyses, critiques and interpretations
- Quotations
- Warren Hastings to the Court of Directors, reflecting on the Government of Bengal, 11 November 1773 Project South Asia
- Works about
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- Specific periods, events, aspects
- His impeachment and trial
- [Sir] Philip Francis one of his accusers
- Warren Hastings - Great Crime Stories
- "Impeachment Of Warren Hastings" By Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment, Provisions in the Constitution that are Relevant to Impeachment and Past Impeachment Inquiries The influence of his trial on the framers of the U.S. Constitution
- U.S. News: Michael Barone looks back to an 18th-century impeachment (1/25/99) The lesson is that the very act of forcing legislators to sit through and listen to the facts, to give or at least appear to give serious consideration to the arguments, can change votes.
- Burke's Law
- Lord Warren Hastings
- His impeachment and trial
- Warren Hastings & Who Owns India?
- Encyclopedia.com - Results for Hastings, Warren
- Dawning of the Raj The Life and Trials of Warren Hastings By JEREMY BERNSTEIN, review and 1st chapter
- Manas: History and Politics, British India, Warren Hastings
- Hastings, Warren
- Encyclopedia Britannica Intermediate - HASTINGS, Warren
- Genealogy
- Doneva Shepard's family with extensive notes
- §8. Warren Hastings. I. Edmund Burke. Vol. 11. The Period of the French Revolution. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
- Berkshire History: Biographies: Warren Hastings (1732-1818)
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- Anglo-Maratha Relations During the Administration of Warren Hastings 1772-1785, Vol. 1/Shailendra Nath Sen: Book No. 10016 Reprint. First published in 1961. Bombay, 1994, 219
- Encyclopedia Britannica
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