1. Who was he

• ‘the first British Governor-General who launched India’s cultural renaissance way back in the 1780s’
• ‘the most curious and learned about Indian culture’
• the most popular of all British Governor-Generals among his Indian subjects.

2. What did he do for the BEIC in India?

• ‘the first British Governor-General who launched India’s cultural renaissance way back in the 1780s’

3. What actions and policies did he make and what were the consequences?

• ‘promote the founding of the Calcutta Asiatic Society in 1784, under the presidentship of the very distinguished Orientalist Sir William Jones, whom Hastings imported from England’

• invested local artisans and culture people. ‘patronage promoted the revival of Sanskrit, the ancient classical language, and rescued it from the narrow confines of a corrupt and oppressive Brahmin priesthood’

• ‘Promoted to the Governor of Bengal’s Council in 1761, Hastings continued to support the Nawab’s attempts to curb the illegal, private trading privileges that corrupt Company employees were claiming to evade local taxes.’