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LECTURE V.

INDIA UNDER THE COMPANY.

WARREN HASTINGS.

A. Condition of Indian Affairs after Clive's Departure. Hyder Ali in Madras. The Mahrattas; dangers to the English powers. The famine in Bengal, 1770. The Company apply to Government for a loan. Lord North's Regulating Act. Its provisions critically examined. By it Warren Hastings is appointed first Governor-General of India.

B. Administration of Warren Hastings.

His previous career. Moderating influence exerted by him on Vansittart's administration. Governor of Bengal, 1772. Hastings, as an Imperial Statesman, not understood by his employers. His divided and antagonistic duties. His resources. Crises in his career examined.

1. The Rohilla War.

Exaggerated and unjustifiable charges brought against Hastings. Political situation as regards the Mogul (Shah Alum), the Nabob of Oudh, and the Mahrattas-into which the Rohilla question entered. What the Rohillas and their Government really were. The Rohillas appeal to Nabob of Oudh to support them against Mahrattas. They fail to keep to the terms agreed upon. They intrigue with the Mahrattas. Nabob of Oudh appeals to Hastings. Treaty of Benares. The Rohilla War. Charges of cruelty, &c., examined. These charges not brought against him on his impeachment.

2. The case of Nuncomar.

Arrival of the Councillors of State (under Regulating Act). Hastings in a minority in the Council, and yet responsible for the Government. His fall seems imminent. Rancorous enmity of Nuncomar. Causes of this. Nuncomar arrested on a charge of forgery. Question of Hastings' complicity. Sir Elijah Impey. Sentence and execution of Nuncomar. Macaulay's account examined. Hastings retrieves his position, not by Nuncomar's death, but by getting a casting vote on the Council.

LECTURE VI.

INDIA UNDER THE COMPANY.

WARREN HASTINGS AND THE CONSOLIDATION

INFLUENCE IN INDIA TO 1799.

3. Cheyt Singh, and Benares.

OF ENGLISH

Continued difficulties of Hastings. The Mahrattas. Hyder Ali. Critical situation of the English power. Hastings calls upon Cheyt Singh to contribute to the support of the Empire, of which he is a vassal. Cheyt temporises. Heavy penalties inflicted by Hastings. The visit to Benares. Hastings in imminent danger. He reduces Benares to obedience.

4. The Begums of Oudh.

Who were the Begums? The property they had wrongfully alienated from Oudh. Oudh's indebtedness to the Company. The Nabob invokes assistance of Hastings to recover his property. The Princesses are compelled to disgorge.

C. The Impeachment.

Hastings remains in office till 1785. Returns home. Sir Philip Francis. Views of Burke. Indian questions before the House. Fox's India Bill. Pitt's India Bill. Hastings impeached. After seven years of investigation he is acquitted on all the charges.

Character of Hastings, and nature of his work in India.

Administration of Lord Cornwallis and the Marquis Wellesley. Defeat and death of Tippoo Sahib, son of Hyder Ali, 1799. Treaty of Bassein, 1802.

University Extension Lectures

Syllabus

of a

Course of Six Lectures

on

Literature of the Revolutionary Epoch, 1750-1850

No. 229

by

E. L. S. Horsburgh, B.A.

Staff Lecturer in History and Literature for the Oxford and American
Societies for the Extension of University Teaching

Price, 10 cents

Copyright, 1903, by

The American Society for the Extension of University Teaching
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BOOKS FOR STUDENTS.

LECTURES I, II.

Wordsworth, by MYERS. 'English Men of Letters.'

Life of Wordsworth. By the late BISHOP OF LINCOLN.
Selections from writings of DE QUINCEY (and from COLERIDGE).
A complete edition of Wordsworth's Works.

LECTURES III, IV.

Coleridge. 'English Men of Letters.' TRAILL. And the works mentioned in prefatory note in that volume.

LECTURE V.

Keats. By SIDNEY COLVIN. With a complete bibliography in the prefatory note.

LECTURE VI.

Life and Correspondence of R. Southey.

Southey. By Professor DowDEN.

COTTLE'S Recollections of Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge.

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