Executors of British Policies in Indian History

Executors of British Policies in Indian History:

  • Warren Hastings : (1772-85) He introduced quinquennial settlement of land revenue in 1772.
  • He codified the Hindu and Muslim laws.
  • He founded the Asiatic Society of Bengal with the help of William Jones in 1784.
  • The trial of Maharaja Nandakumar (1775) and his Judicial Murder was during the period of Warren Hastings
  • He abolished the Dual Government in Bengal in 1772.
  • After his return to England he was impeached there in 1785.
  • By the Regulating Act 1775 of appointed him the first Governor General.
  • First Anglo – Maratha war took place during his period.
  • In 1780 James Augustus Hickey started a weekly paper called Bengal Gazette or Calcutta General Advertiser during the period of Warren Hastings.
  • Warren Hastings established a Muhammedan Madrasa in Calcutta.

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