Hastings, Warren : (1732-1818), employee of East India Co. started at Calcutta 1750: to Kasimbazar 1753: Member Council there, imprisoned at Murshidabad 1756, joined the British refugees from Calcutta at Falta: after British crushed Nawab of Murshidabad made its Resident 1757-60 by Clive then Gov. Calcutta: sent to Patna to bulldoze trade concessions: sent to Madras as second in its Council 1769: Gov. Bengal from April 13, 1772: appointed Gov.-Gen. with four colleagues from 20 Oct,1774, of the four Francis, Clavering & Monson opposed him & Barwell sided with him: Raja of Nunda Kumar, a willing cat’s paw of Clive & Hastings, having gone through exhilarating ups & devastating downs, brought before the Council some grave charges against Hastings in March 1775, only to be himself prosecuted on trumped up charges, convicted & hanged on Aug 5, 1775; after two enemies of his on his Council died he fought & wounded the third: drove Hyder Ali out of Carnatic & Mahrattas by help of Scindia: tried to extort money from the Raja of Banaras & humiliated & deposed him for refusing: extorted huge sums from the Nawab of Oudh: his impeachment for maladministration by Burke (q.v.) & others with assistance of Sir P. Francis, began in Feb. 1788, lasted 145 days cost him £70,000 which E.I. Co. reimbursed: acquitted of all charges in April 1795: when he attended House of Commons in 1813, the whole House rose & did him honour: made Privy Councillor: his statue was erected in Calcutta. [Buckland]
... 497,498, 564 Haldar, Haridas, 218 Halliday, F. L., 308-09 Hamsa Sandesa, 97 Hansraj, Lala, 234 Hardinge, Lord, 369 Hartmann, Nicolai, 441 Hastings, Warren, 194 Hegel, 418,441 Heidegger, Martin, 416, 442,750 Heraclitus, 404, 51 1ff; review of R. D. Ranade's paper, 512; an Apollonian mystic and seer, 512; Being and Becoming ...
... interests. The sequel to the trial of Warren Hastings is an excellent example of this dominant instinct. Twenty-seven years after the impeachment, sixteen years after the death of Burke had left his orations as a classic to English literature,—a scene was enacted in the House of Commons similar in spirit to the unanimous acclamation of Mr. Morley's speech. Warren Hastings—an old man of eighty—appeared at... his action and exalt him to the skies. When therefore Mr. Morley declared his intention of preserving the Empire Hastings had consolidated, by any means however unjust or tyrannical, is it any wonder that an English House of Commons should recognise in him a worthy successor of Hastings and accord to him an unanimous applause? Page 568 ...
... agricultural base; also the British started limiting India's access to world trade with tariffs, by taking command of India's textile industry and exporting Indian gold. Warren Hastings was appointed the first Governor-General of British India in 1772. From that time onwards, the British relied on superior military power, as well as bribery, extortion, political manipulation of ...
... and her guru Bhavani Pathak, some of whose deeds were chronicled by men of the East India Company. Page 256 by Capt. Thomas in 1772 near Rangpur, leaving only a few survivors. Warren Hastings, the then Governor General of India, extolled (!) them. "These Sannyasis appear so suddenly in towns or villages that one would think they had dropped from the blue. They are strong, brave, and ...
... Home Rule, the persistent foe of war and coercion, is closing his fine record of public service with a coronet on his head as the ruler of India, Page 55 of the child of Clive and Warren Hastings, of the creature of strife and fraud; as one might say, a benevolent despot in an absolute constitution imposed and administered by an alien race." We in India are sure of the despotism but have ...
... were ruined along with the craftsman, the artisan and the trader. The Indian historian Romesh Dutt paints this harrowing picture: "The facts which were deposed to at the celebrated impeachment of Warren Hastings [first Governor-General of the East India Company] relating to the collection of rent from Page 285 the impoverished tenantry [of Bengal] are sufficiently dismal. It was stated ...
... O'Leary, "it would be better for you if I had the keys of the other place [meaning, of course, hell], for then I could let you out." 14 (9) From R.B. Sheridan: During the trial of Warren Hastings, Sheridan, who was an M.P., was making one of his speeches when, having observed Gibbon among the audience, he took occasion to refer to "the luminous author of the 'Decline and Fall'." A friend ...
... p. 210). 18. The House of the Titans, pp. 1-2. 19. Essays in Literary Criticism, edited by Irving Singer, p. 403. 20. ibid , p. 405. 21. See Wellek & Warren, Theory of Literature, p. 195. 22. Quoted in Cassirer, Language and Myth, p. 5. 23. Collected Essays in Literary Criticism, p. 101. 24. Language and Myth, p. 99... Allen Tate, The Man of Letters in the Modern World, pp. 62-3. 27. Bernard Blackstone, The Consecrated Urn, p. 134; see also Charles Williams, The Figure of Beatrice, p. 56, Wellek & Warren, Theory of Literature, p.196, and Ezra Pound, The Spirit of Romance, p. 127. 28. On the Veda, pp. 8-9. 29. ibid, pp. 277-8 30. ibid., p. 11 31. Savitri... like the tired bird reconstitute one's strength so as to face the world once more.'" (ibid. pp. 870-1). 186. ibid., pp. 213-4. 187. ibid., p.262. 188. See Wellek & Warren, Theory of Literature, pp.202-3. 189. Countries of the Mind, Second Series, p. 2. Murry also says that, "it seems impossible to regard metaphors and similies as different in any essential ...
... the British in places so widespread as Dacca, Coochbehar, Saran, Dinajpur, Rajshahi, Rungpur, and "in most of these encounters they used to carry the day", and so much of a menace they were that Warren Hastings wrote in 1773: "These sannyasins appear so suddenly in towns or villages that one would think they had dropped from the blue. They are strong, brave, and energetic beyond belief." 32 And, of course ...
... after Plassey and Page 17 eleven years after the third Battle of Panipat, both decisive events that paved the way for Britain's overlordship of India; also, it was in 1772 that Warren Hastings was appointed Governor of Bengal. The terrible Bengal famine of 1770 had devastated that province, and demoralisation had followed reducing all vestiges of life to a dull stupor: It was the ...
... Capt. Edwards was killed in Dinajpur fight. Neither the threat of severe punishment nor the huge prices set on the heads of the Sannyasis could induce the local people to betray them. In 1773, Warren Hastings, who was then the Governor General of India, wrote about them: "These Sannyasis appear so suddenly in towns or villages that one would think they had dropped from the blue. They are strong, brave ...
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