Warren Hastings

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"Warren Hastings, who lived from 1732 to 1818, was a British statesman and colonial administrator and was both in his own time and since then regarded as one of the founders of the British Empire in India. His life is bound up in the complex imperial policies of British interest in India in the 18th and 19th centuries an interest that was both mercantile and political, with the two sometimes hard to separate.
The son of an Anglican clergyman, Hastings was born on December 6, 1732, in Churchill, Oxfordshire, England, and attended Westminister School in London.

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"Warren Hastings, who lived from 1732 to 1818, was a British statesman and colonial administrator and was both in his own time and since then regarded as one of the founders of the British Empire in India. His life is bound up in the complex imperial policies of British interest in India in the 18th and 19th centuries an interest that was both mercantile and political, with the two sometimes hard to separate.
The son of an Anglican clergyman, Hastings was born on December 6, 1732, in Churchill, Oxfordshire, England, and attended Westminister School in London. At the age of 18 he went to India as a clerk in the service of the English East India Company, where his careful work there soon revealed set him above the other clerks and revealed his administrative talent. He advanced far more quickly than most men of his age ..."

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