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Page vii
... Hastings , of the Marquesses Cornwallis , Wellesley , Hastings , and Dalhousie , will fully show . The great Sepoy mutiny of 1857 shook for a time the British power in India to its foundation , and ended in the extinction of the ...
... Hastings , of the Marquesses Cornwallis , Wellesley , Hastings , and Dalhousie , will fully show . The great Sepoy mutiny of 1857 shook for a time the British power in India to its foundation , and ended in the extinction of the ...
Page 84
... by the vigour and re- solution of Clive in a fortnight . He devised a plan for covering the expense of paying the civil servants ade- Warren Hastings , the first Governor - General . 85 84 Account of the Bengal Presidency .
... by the vigour and re- solution of Clive in a fortnight . He devised a plan for covering the expense of paying the civil servants ade- Warren Hastings , the first Governor - General . 85 84 Account of the Bengal Presidency .
Page 85
... Hastings , subsequently ( 1774 ) appointed the first governor - general of India . He arrived in India in 1750 , and had , by the usual system of seniority , advanced to the council board in the time of Mr. Vansittart , whose views he ...
... Hastings , subsequently ( 1774 ) appointed the first governor - general of India . He arrived in India in 1750 , and had , by the usual system of seniority , advanced to the council board in the time of Mr. Vansittart , whose views he ...
Page 87
... Hastings concluded a treaty with the vizier of Oudh , by which he engaged to assist the latter with an English force in destroying the Rohillas , a powerful Af- ghan confederacy on the borders of Oudh ( founded in the reign of Mahomed ...
... Hastings concluded a treaty with the vizier of Oudh , by which he engaged to assist the latter with an English force in destroying the Rohillas , a powerful Af- ghan confederacy on the borders of Oudh ( founded in the reign of Mahomed ...
Page 92
... HASTINGS ( GOVERNOR - GENERAL , 1774-85 ) . Governors of Madras . ALEXANDER WYNCH 1773-5 · Governors of Bombay . WILLIAM HORNBY 1771-85 LORD PIGOT 1775-7 RAWSON HART BODDAM 1785- WHITEHILL 1777-8 · SIR THOMAS RUMBOLD 1778-80 WHITEHILL ...
... HASTINGS ( GOVERNOR - GENERAL , 1774-85 ) . Governors of Madras . ALEXANDER WYNCH 1773-5 · Governors of Bombay . WILLIAM HORNBY 1771-85 LORD PIGOT 1775-7 RAWSON HART BODDAM 1785- WHITEHILL 1777-8 · SIR THOMAS RUMBOLD 1778-80 WHITEHILL ...
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