Excerpt from Warren Hastings: A Biography

Fall of Rajah Ramnarain - Mir Kasim's Efforts to strengthen himself - Insolence of the English - Hastings acts as Peacemaker - New Causes of Quarrel, English Exactions - Excesses of the Company's Servants - Vansittart's Attempt to check them - The Nawab retaliates - His angry Letter to the Council - The final Collision - The Patna Massacre - Mir Kasim's Defeat and Flight - Reinstatement of Mir Jafar - Victory of Bakhsar - Departure of Hastings, Hastings in England - His Son's Death - His Scheme of a Persian Professorship - Acquaintance with Dr. Johnson - Hastings made Second in Council at Madras - His Voyage thither - His Illness - His Love Affair with the Baroness Imhoff - His Arrangement with the Baron, Hastings at Madras - Review of the Company's Affairs in Southern India - Rise and Progress of Haidar Ali - The Mysore Rajah dethroned - Defeat of the Nizam by Smith - Renewed Treaty with the Nizam - Haidar's March on Madras - Treaty with Haidar, 1769, Hastings' Duties at Madras - His Efforts to improve the Company's Investments - His Appointment to Bengal - His Correspondence - His Departure for Calcutta, February 1772 - Sir J. Lindsay's rash Proceedings - What Hastings thought of them - Dissensions at Madras - Hastings and the Nawab of the Carnatic, Hastings lands at Calcutta - Retrospect of Affairs - The "Nabob" at Home - Hastings installed as Governor of Fort William, April 1772 - End of the double Government of Bengal - Arrest of Reza Khan and Shitab Rai - Revision of the Land Settlement - Judicial Reforms - Gurdas and the Manni Begam - The Company's Trade - Hard Work for Hastings

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