Author: JEREMY BERNSTEIN
Title: Dawning of the Raj
Description: Aurum Press, 2001. Gekartonneerd. Pp: 319. The first new biography of Warren Hastings for 25 years Posterity hasemembered Warren Hastings not for his career but for its aftermath. At thend of the eighteenth century he was indicated for "high crimes andisdemeanours", and subjected to the longest and most costly impeachment inritish history. But he was also, more than anyone else, the founder of thextraordinary institution that was British India. How he worked his way uprom the lowliest clerk in the British East India Company to become the firstovernor-general is a colourful story. It embraces constant conflict andilitary skirmishing with the French and with Afghan tribesmen on theorth-West Frontier, the Black Hole of Calcutta, the trade in opium, cottonnd diamonds, and the gradual consolidation of one small island nation'sastery of the subcontinent from the Indian Ocean to the Himalayas. Butastings' brilliant but autocratic governance, associated with dubiousinancial "presents", brutally suppressed revolt and allegations of torture,lso made him many enemies. In 1787, therefore, parliament voted to impeach. ISBN: 9781854107534. Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.
Keywords: 9781854107534
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Title: Dawning of the Raj
Description: Aurum Press, 2001. Gekartonneerd. Pp: 319. The first new biography of Warren Hastings for 25 years Posterity hasemembered Warren Hastings not for his career but for its aftermath. At thend of the eighteenth century he was indicated for "high crimes andisdemeanours", and subjected to the longest and most costly impeachment inritish history. But he was also, more than anyone else, the founder of thextraordinary institution that was British India. How he worked his way uprom the lowliest clerk in the British East India Company to become the firstovernor-general is a colourful story. It embraces constant conflict andilitary skirmishing with the French and with Afghan tribesmen on theorth-West Frontier, the Black Hole of Calcutta, the trade in opium, cottonnd diamonds, and the gradual consolidation of one small island nation'sastery of the subcontinent from the Indian Ocean to the Himalayas. Butastings' brilliant but autocratic governance, associated with dubiousinancial "presents", brutally suppressed revolt and allegations of torture,lso made him many enemies. In 1787, therefore, parliament voted to impeach. ISBN: 9781854107534. Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.
Keywords: 9781854107534
Price: EUR 7.50 = appr. US$ 8.15 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 1793818
- Book number: 1793818
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