Warren HastingsCambridge University Press, 1896 - 179 pages |
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Page 114
... Lucknow , and there to confer with Asaph - ul - Dowlah . But the obsequious courtesy of the Nabob Vizier prevented this visit . With a small train he hastened to meet the Governor - General . An interview took place in the fortress ...
... Lucknow , and there to confer with Asaph - ul - Dowlah . But the obsequious courtesy of the Nabob Vizier prevented this visit . With a small train he hastened to meet the Governor - General . An interview took place in the fortress ...
Page 115
... Lucknow , which he had built for himself on the shores of the Goomti , and had adorned with noble mosques and colleges . Asaph - ul - Dowlah had already extorted considerable sums from his mother . She had at length appealed to the ...
... Lucknow , which he had built for himself on the shores of the Goomti , and had adorned with noble mosques and colleges . Asaph - ul - Dowlah had already extorted considerable sums from his mother . She had at length appealed to the ...
Page 117
... Lucknow , though hitherto devoted to Hastings , shrank from extreme measures . But the Governor - General was inexorable . He wrote to the resident in terms of the greatest severity , and declared that , if the spoliation which had been ...
... Lucknow , though hitherto devoted to Hastings , shrank from extreme measures . But the Governor - General was inexorable . He wrote to the resident in terms of the greatest severity , and declared that , if the spoliation which had been ...
Page 118
... purpose they were removed to Lucknow . What horrors their dungeon there witnessed can only be guessed . But there remains on the records of Parliament this letter , written by a British resident to 118 WARREN HASTINGS .
... purpose they were removed to Lucknow . What horrors their dungeon there witnessed can only be guessed . But there remains on the records of Parliament this letter , written by a British resident to 118 WARREN HASTINGS .
Page 120
... Lucknow . He hurried thither as fast as relays of palanquin - bearers could carry him . A crowd of people came before him with affidavits against the Begums , ready drawn in their hands . Those affidavits he did not read . Some of them ...
... Lucknow . He hurried thither as fast as relays of palanquin - bearers could carry him . A crowd of people came before him with affidavits against the Begums , ready drawn in their hands . Those affidavits he did not read . Some of them ...
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