Talk:Warren Hastings

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[edit] The Contents are not as per the rules of history.

I strongly approve what the earlier commentator had said.

I direct attention to the following lines. "In many respects Warren Hastings epitomizes the strengths and shortcomings of the British conquest and dominion over India. Unlike the Islamic invaders, who did not even bother to learn an Indian language till they had been in the land for at least half a dozen generations and whose approach to power was to strike terror in the population by building pyramids of skulls of the 100,000 civilians they killed in a single day, the British personified by such able and brilliant administrators such as Warren Hastings went about consoilidating their power in a highly systematic manner."

The above mentioned lines are against the very spirit of history writing. There is no reference to the incidence, when such a thing happened. There is no reference to the authority who had mentioned about such a holocaust had taken place. As far as my reading goes, I have never read about an incidence during the Delhi Sultanate period or Mughal period wherein they had raised a mount of skulls in at such a level. It should be immediately deleted.

Secondly, the article tells nothing. It merely suggests that something important had happened when Hastings was in India.

It has pointed about the impeachement but does not refer to the name Nanda Kumar and the incidence when his name got involved in wrongful transactions in India.

Warren Hastings became the Governor General of India after the Regulating Act 1773. During his tenure itself the Pitts India Act was passed. Both the Acts form an important stages in the constitutional development of India as well the history of East India Company.

Similarly Warren Hastings supported the Orientalists thought pattern. But the idea is given in such a abtruse manner that nothing becomes clear.

I can go on and on. In short if this article has to be rated, then the whole thing should be rewritten from the historic perspective. I think there is very little to perserve from the present presentation. If no objection comes in next fifteen days, then I will like to rewrite the whole article around September 16, 2007. Sumir Sharma 14:19, 30 August 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sumir Sharma (talk • contribs) 13:59, August 30, 2007 (UTC)

I found that this article has a novel feature: a section named "As judged by history", as if a presiding deity in Wikipedia has pronounced the final verdict on a person. I also found this line in this section: "The nationalists in the subcontinent consider Hastings as another English bandit, along with Clive, who started the colonial rule in the subcontinent through treachery and cunning." So I added another line to give some perspective on bandits: "However, it should be pointed out that other bandits, English or otherwise, did not found colleges and madrasas, nor helped to collect and translate Sanskrit works into English." The editors need to discourage such attempts to slip in one's value judgements as if they are the decisions of a jealous God- Gopalan evr (talk) 10:03, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

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