Hastings Road is
located opposite the Tekka Mall. We passed the road as we walked around Little
India Arcade. The road is named after Warren
Hastings (1732-1818) Governor-General of British India.
As a Governor-General Lord
Hastings was a competent administrator and diplomat and he carried out several
reforms during the period that he was Governor-General. He also established the
Board of Revenue Collection in Bengal, a significant contribution for the
collection of taxes and revenue. There is no monument for Hastings either in
England or India by the EIC but only a table in the Abbey by his wife Marion
(1747-1837) and hastings road is one way that he could be remembered.
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