The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 4John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Great Britain |
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... appointed governor of Bengal . He had already been twenty - two years in India . Born at Churchill in Oxfordshire on 6 December , 1732 , he had been educated at West- minster School and reached Calcutta in 1750 as a writer , the lowest ...
... appointed governor of Bengal . He had already been twenty - two years in India . Born at Churchill in Oxfordshire on 6 December , 1732 , he had been educated at West- minster School and reached Calcutta in 1750 as a writer , the lowest ...
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... appointed the widow of a former nawab , Mir Ja'far , who was known as the Munni Begam . Rajah Gurdas , son of Nandakumar , was at the same time appointed steward of the household . For these appoint- ments Hastings was afterwards ...
... appointed the widow of a former nawab , Mir Ja'far , who was known as the Munni Begam . Rajah Gurdas , son of Nandakumar , was at the same time appointed steward of the household . For these appoint- ments Hastings was afterwards ...
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... appointed , they did adopt the Bengal treaty as the basis of a new agreement which Macartney proceeded to negotiate with the nawab . On 2 December , 1781 , the latter executed an assignment of his revenues to Macartney in person for a ...
... appointed , they did adopt the Bengal treaty as the basis of a new agreement which Macartney proceeded to negotiate with the nawab . On 2 December , 1781 , the latter executed an assignment of his revenues to Macartney in person for a ...
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