Maharaja Nandakumar was an Indian tax collector for various regions in what is modern-day West Bengal. Nanda Kumar was born at Bhadrapur, which is now in Birbhum. He was the first Indian to be executed by hanging. Nandakumar was appointed by the East India Company to be the Dewan for Burdwan, Nadia and Hooghly in 1764, following the removal of Warren Hastings from the post.
The execution well of Nandakumar at Hastings
The turban of Nanda Kumar-Now it has been kept at Victoria Memorial-Museum
Akalipur Kali Temple (Gujjya Kali)
Warren Hastings was a British colonial administrator, who served as the first 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. He and Robert Clive are credited with laying the foundation of the British Empire in India. He was an energetic organizer and reformer. In 1779–1784 he led forces of the East India Company against a coalition of native states and the French. In the end, the well-organized British side held its own, while France lost influence in India. In 1787, he was accused of corruption and impeached, but he was eventually acquitted in 1795 after a long trial. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1814.
Portrait by Tilly Kettle
Warren Hastings with his wife Marian in their garden at Alipore, c. 1784–87
The trial of Warren Hastings in Westminster Hall, 1788
Hastings painted by Johann Zoffany, 1783–1784
