Warren Hastings

How the begums of Awadh had stood up to the East India Company

Ira Mukhoty

Queens of resistance

Warren Hastings ‘Loved India a Little More Than His Own Country’

Zareer Masani

On the 70th anniversary of India’s independence, let’s redeem Warren Hastings from the worst trial of history

Burke and India

Richard Bourke

Edmund Burke, the 18th century English philosopher-statesman, believed that Indians were systematically exploited by the East India Company, whose abuse of power led to the creation of one of the most degenerate species of government that the civilised world had ever seen