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Illustration of an Indian woman holding a flower
Splendours of the Subcontinent: Four centuries of South Asian Paintings and Manuscripts: The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace
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    THOMAS WATSON (1748-81)

    Warren Hastings

    20 Mar 1777

    RCIN 640613

    The East India Company nearly collapsed in 1773 after a severe famine swept Bengal. Warren Hastings was appointed the first Governor-General to oversee the Company’s reform. He later returned to Britain charged with ‘high crimes and misdemeanours’ and faced an impeachment trial which lasted seven years. He was acquitted in 1795.
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