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About Warren Hasting

  • He became Governor of Bengal in 1772 and then 1st Governor General of Bengal through the Regulating Act of 1773.

  • Supreme Court at Fort William was established in 1774.

  • Act of 1781, under which the powers of jurisdiction between the governor-general in-council and the Supreme Court at Calcutta, were clearly divided.

  • Pitt's India Act of 1784.

  • Strained relationships with Chait Singh, the Maharaja of Benaras, led to Warren Hasting's' impeachment in England.

  • Founded the Asiatic Society of Bengal (1784) with William Jones.

  • Abolished the dual government established by Robert Clive.

Wars:

  • Second Mysore War in 1780-84

  • The Rohilla War of 1774.

  • Treaty of Salbai in 1782.

  • The First Maratha War in 1775-82.

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