The Supreme Council of Bengal, also known as Council of Four, was the highest level of executive government in British India from 1774 to 1833: the period...
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any person residing in Bengal, Bihar or Orissa. These first years were known for their conflict with the Supreme Council of Bengal over the Court's jurisdiction...
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Maharaja Nandakumar (redirect from Nuncomar (Maharaja Nandakumar of Bengal))
other members of the Supreme Council of Bengal. However, Hastings overruled the council's charges. Thereafter, in 1775, he brought charges of document forgery...
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control over the governance of India with the passage of the Regulating Act of 1773. A governor-general and Supreme Council of Bengal were appointed to rule...
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Regulating Act 1773 (redirect from Regulating act of 1773)
could only vote in case of tie. The Act named four additional men to serve with the Governor-General on the Supreme Council of Bengal: Lt-Gen John Clavering...
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the British East India Company, a member of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and the last British governor of Java. Fendall was born on 9 October 1762 in...
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First Anglo-Maratha War (redirect from Treaty of Purandar (1776))
by the peshwa of the Maratha Empire and the British East India Company's Supreme Council of Bengal in Calcutta. Based on the terms of the accord, the...
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of Bengal see List of governors of Bengal. List of governors of Bengal Presidency Council of India Secretary of State for India List of presidents of India...
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Archibald Seton (category History of Penang)
1812, by the Court of Directors of the East India Company, as the reward of his long services, to a seat in the Supreme Council of Bengal, which he filled...
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Warren Hastings (category Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom)
Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and so the first Governor-General of Bengal in 1772–1785...
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