> [in] 1788, when #WarrenHastings, the former governor of #Bengal, was impeached by #EdmundBurke.. the charge[was] that Hastings’s statecraft in #India represented an affront to the #British political system. With Hastings’s acquittal, the split came to be embedded at the heart of the imperial practices of the #Anglosphere..
The maintenance of dominance outweighed any other imperative of governance, and it was towards these ends that #statecraft was primarily oriented.
#AmitavGhosh on #Empire