ABSTRACT
The anarchy of Bengal was plainly intolerable, and Parliament was certain to intervene. Warren Hastings was aware of the desirability of the due ascertainment of Hindu and Muhammadan law and contemplated the issue of codes of both, tentative preparations for this end being set on foot. In his relations with the nawab Hastings was utterly indifferent to the maintenance of the fiction of his sovereignty. The charter conferred authority only over the town or district of Calcutta and its subordinate factories, and that there were many of His Majesty's subjects resident in Bengal who did not fall under the jurisdiction of English law. To meet these difficulties the Regulating Act provided for the erection of a judiciary emanating directly from the Crown, and therefore able to punish the servants of the Company without fear of consequences and to adjudicate on claims against it.
