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Warren Hastings, (born Dec. 6, 1732, Churchill, near Daylesford, Oxfordshire, Eng.—died Aug. 22, 1818, Daylesford), British colonial administrator in India. He worked for the English East India Company from 1750, rising to membership in its council in Bengal (1761–64) and Madras (now Chennai; 1769).
May 21, 2018 · Warren Hastings was a competent, honorable, and farsighted administrator whose policies, some controversial, decisively shaped and stabilized future Anglo-Indian relations. The controversy surrounding his administration made him the subject of impeachment and trial in Great Britain.
Warren Hastings (December 6, 1732 - August 22, 1818) was the first and most well-known governor-general of British India, from 1773 to 1785. He was famously impeached in 1787 for corruption, and acquitted in 1795. He was made a Privy Councilor in 1814.
Warren Hastings (governor of Bengal from 1772 and governor-general of the British territories in India from 1774 to 1785) stands not least among those ‘imperial icons’ that dominated old pro-consular histories, and his dramatic career has launched a large shelf-full of biographies.
Warren Hastings - India Governor, Reforms, Controversy | Britannica. Contents. Home Politics, Law & Government World Leaders Governors. War in India. The death of Clavering in 1777 put Hastings once again in possession of full power, although Francis’s opposition dragged on for another three years.
Warren Hastings. The first Governor-General of India was Warren Hastings, who occupied that high position from 1773 to 1784. While Clive was content with creating the impression that the Nawab of Bengal remained sovereign, subject only in some matters to the dictate of the Mughal Emperor, Hastings moved swiftly to remove this fiction. The Nawab ...
Warren Hastings FRS (6 December 1732 – 22 August 1818) was a British colonial administrator, who served as the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and so the first Governor-General of Bengal in 1772–1785.
