Editing Warren Hastings (section)

==Literature==
Hastings took an interest in seeing the Bhagavad Gita translated into English. His efforts led to a first translation by [[Charles Wilkins]] appearing in 1785. He wrote the introduction to it which appeared on 4 October 1784 in [[Benares]].<ref name="Gita-Garrett">{{Cite book |editor1-last=Garrett |editor1-first=John |editor2-last=Wilhelm |editor2-first=Humboldt |title=The Bhagavat-Geeta, Or, Dialogues of Krishna and Arjoon in Eighteen Lectures |date=1849 |publisher=Wesleyan Mission Press |location=Bangalore |url=https://archive.org/details/bhagavatgeetaor00humbgoog |access-date=18 January 2017}}</ref>

"Warren Hastings and His Bull", a short story by the Indian writer [[Uday Prakash]], was adapted for stage under the same title by the director [[Arvind Gaur]]. It presents Hastings's interaction with traditional India in a work of socio-economic political satire.

A short story by the Hindi author Shivprasad Singh 'Rudra' Kashikeya called ''Bahti Ganga'' features [[Chait Singh]], then Raja of Banaras, in conflict with Hastings, who is imprisoned by the Raja, but escapes, though ordinary people of the city make fun of him.

The Hastings career is much discussed in the historical mystery novel, ''Secrets in the Stones'', by [[Tessa Harris]].<ref>{{Cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=IZCmCQAAQBAJ&q=secrets+in+the+stones++warren+hastings&pg=PA336 |title=Secrets in the Stones |author=Tessa Harris |date=23 February 2016 |publisher=Kensington Books |isbn=978-0-7582-9342-8}} excerpt from Secrets in the Stones, Postscript.</ref>

Hastings is named in Book 5 of [[George Eliot]]'s novel ''[[Middlemarch]]'', where his greed for Daylesford is compared to the character Joshua Rigg's greed for money.

Hastings was rumoured to be the biological father of [[Eliza de Feuillide]], the daughter of [[Philadelphia Austen Hancock]] and a cousin of [[Jane Austen]].<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Shelden |first1=Michael |author-link=Michael Shelden |title=Cousin Eliza, the incurable flirt who inspired Jane Austen |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4728689/Cousin-Eliza-the-incurable-flirt-who-inspired-Jane-Austen.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4728689/Cousin-Eliza-the-incurable-flirt-who-inspired-Jane-Austen.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=6 June 2020 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=7 September 2002}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Some scholars have seen parallels between Hastings and Colonel Brandon in Austen's ''[[Sense and Sensibility]]'': both left for India at age 17; both may have had illegitimate daughters named Eliza; both participated in a duel. Linda Robinson Walker argues that Hastings "haunts ''Sense and Sensibility'' in the character of Colonel Brandon."<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Walker |first1=Linda Robinson |title=Jane Austen, the Second Anglo-Mysore War, and Colonel Brandon's Forcible Circumcision: A Rereading of ''Sense and Sensibility'' |journal=Persuasions On-Line |date=2013 |volume=34 |issue=1 |url=http://jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol34no1/walker.html |access-date=6 June 2020 |publisher=Jane Austen Society of North America}}</ref>