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The Trial of Maharaja Nanda Kumar. Narrative of a Judicial Murder

1886

Elliot's letter to the publisher and the enclosure from the Judges (Impey's Memoirs 122) seem to show that this was not the case and the title-page in the original edition indicates that it was only the trial for forgery which was published by authority. [...] The question of the genuineness of the bond lies at the very root of the case. [...] More lucky than the father and uncle of Jagat Seth he was not put to death at B6 rh; still he did not escape without suffering He was in camp with Mir Qasim at Bazar and achieved the disagreable pre-eminence of being the first person selected by the * Sir J. S. says that the evidence of this transaction which is referred to by Impey in his charge is not given in the report of the trial. [...] Probably somthing of this sort was in the mind of Mohan Prosad when in answer to a question as to the time when he was so far certain of the forgery as to prosecute he said : When I saw the amount of jewels the name of Rogonath (the alleged depositor as to whom no account was given) and the metion of plunder I know it was forged and from the nature of the bond which is not regular in [...] The quotations which I have above made from the Court of Directors' dispatches show that the money had been lent at Dacca for they particularly enjoin the making of inquiries from the officers of the Dacca Goverment Similarly the list of Bolaqi's assets given in his poweof-attorney of January 1769 (914) is headed by the entry the English Company at the Dacca Factory " ; the bond there
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Frontmatter
i-vi H. Beveridge view
Chapter I Introduction
1-10 H. Beveridge view
Chapter II. Bolaqi Das
11-58 H. Beveridge view
Chapter III. The Accounts
59-85 H. Beveridge view
Chapter IV. The Civil Suit
86-98 H. Beveridge view
Chapter V. The Genesis of the Prosecution
99-104 H. Beveridge view
Chapter VI. Hastings and Nanda Kumar
105-125 H. Beveridge view
Chapter VII. Hastings Resignation
126-135 H. Beveridge view
Chapter VIII. Hastings Confession
136-154 H. Beveridge view
Chapter IX. The Trials for Conspiracy
155-188 H. Beveridge view
Chapter X. The Trial for Forgery
189-224 H. Beveridge view
Chapter XI. The Witnesses for the Croivn
225-246 H. Beveridge view
Chapter XII. The Wittness for the Diffence
247-275 H. Beveridge view
Chapter XIII. The Charge to the Jury
276-284 H. Beveridge view
Chapter XIV. Proceedings After the Verdict
285-301 H. Beveridge view
Chapter XV. Recapitulation
302-338 H. Beveridge view
Appendices
339-448 H. Beveridge view

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