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India.- Hastings (Warren) A Narrative of the late Transactions at Benares, first English edition, lacking final advertisement leaf, lightly browned, cropped shaving pagination of last few leaves, stab-holes to inner margin, bookplate of John Barneby Esq., handsome contemporary tree calf, spine ruled in gilt and with red roan label, an excellent copy, for J.Debrett, 1782.

⁂ Scarce account in which Hastings attempts to justify his actions against Chait Singh, Rajah of Benares, and the Wazir of Oudh, both of whom had refused to pay tribute money to the East India Company. Hastings sent troops to arrest the Rajah but they were massacred, causing outrage at home in Britain. The work was first published in Calcutta earlier the same year with an extensive Appendix of papers and correspondence. This is considerably abbreviated in this edition but does include some letters and affidavits. It is rarer than the Calcutta edition with only 6 UK locations on ESTC (BL, Cambridge, Oxford - Bodleian & Christ Church, Manchester - Central Library & John Rylands Library).

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India.- Hastings (Warren) A Narrative of the late Transactions at Benares, first English edition, lacking final advertisement leaf, lightly browned, cropped shaving pagination of last few leaves, stab-holes to inner margin, bookplate of John Barneby Esq., handsome contemporary tree calf, spine ruled in gilt and with red roan label, an excellent copy, for J.Debrett, 1782.

⁂ Scarce account in which Hastings attempts to justify his actions against Chait Singh, Rajah of Benares, and the Wazir of Oudh, both of whom had refused to pay tribute money to the East India Company. Hastings sent troops to arrest the Rajah but they were massacred, causing outrage at home in Britain. The work was first published in Calcutta earlier the same year with an extensive Appendix of papers and correspondence. This is considerably abbreviated in this edition but does include some letters and affidavits. It is rarer than the Calcutta edition with only 6 UK locations on ESTC (BL, Cambridge, Oxford - Bodleian & Christ Church, Manchester - Central Library & John Rylands Library).

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