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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 911 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NUNCOMAR or NANDA KUMAR (d. 1775), See also:

Indian See also:official, best known for his connexion with See also:Warren See also:Hastings (q.v.), was See also:governor of See also:Hugli in 1756, and in 1764 he was appointed See also:collector of See also:Burdwan in See also:place of Hastings, which resulted in a See also:long-See also:standing enmity. In 1775, when Hastings was governor-See also:general, Nuncomar brought accusations of peculation against him, which were entertained by See also:Francis and the other members of See also:council inimical to Hastings. While the See also:matter was still pending Nuncomar was indicted for See also:forgery, condemned and executed. Warren Hastings and See also:Sir See also:Elijah See also:Impey, the See also:chief See also:justice, were both impeached, and were accused by See also:Burke and afterwards by See also:Macaulay of committing a judicial See also:murder; but Sir See also:James See also:Stephen, who examined the trial in detail, states that the See also:indictment for forgery arose in the See also:ordinary course, was not brought forward by Hastings, and that Impey conducted the trial with fairness and impartiality. See Sir James Stephen, The See also:Story of Nuncomar (2 vols., 1885) ; and, for another treatment of the See also:case, H. Beveridge, The Trial of Nanda Kumar (See also:Calcutta, 1886).

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