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== जीवन ==
<!-- Warren Hastings was born at [[Churchill, Oxfordshire]]. He attended [[Westminster School]] before joining the [[British East India Company]] in [[1750]] as a clerk. In [[1757]] he was made the British Resident (administrative in charge) of [[Murshidabad]]. He was appointed to the [[Calcutta]] council in [[1761]], but was back in England in [[1764]]. He returned to India in [[1769]] as a member of the [[Madras]] council and was made governor of [[Bengal]] in [[1772]]. In 1773, he was appointed the first [[Governor-General of India]].
After an eventful ten-year tenure in which he greatly extended and regularised the nascent [[British Raj|Raj]] created by [[Robert Clive|Clive of India]], Hastings resigned in [[1784]]. On his return to England he was charged with high crimes and misdemeanours by [[Edmund Burke]], encouraged by Sir [[Philip Francis (English politician)|Philip Francis]] whom he had wounded in a duel in India. He was impeached in [[1787]] but the trial, which began in [[1788]], ended with his acquittal in [[1795]]. Hastings spent most of his fortune on his defence, although towards the end of the trial the East India Company did provide financial support.
He retained his supporters, however, and on [[August 22]], [[1806]], the [[Edinburgh]] East India Club and a number of gentlemen from India gave what was described as "an elegant entertainment" to "Warren Hastings, Esq., late Governor-General of India", who was then on a visit to Edinburgh. One of the 'sentiments' drunk on the occasion was "Prosperity to our settlements in India, and may the virtue and talents which preserved them be ever remembered with gratitude."<ref> Gilbert, W.M., editor, ''Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century'', Edinburgh, 1901: 44</ref>
In 1788 he acquired the estate at [[Daylesford, Gloucestershire]], including the site of the medieval seat of the Hastings family. In the following years, he remodelled the mansion to the designs of [[Samuel Pepys Cockerell]], with magnificent classical and Indian decoration, and gardens landscaped by [[John Davenport]]. He also rebuilt the [[Norman]] church in 1816, where he was buried two years later.jiijujj
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