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Dictionary of Indian Biography (Buckland)

Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C

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Date transcribed	2011-01-01
Transcribed by	Peter Bailey
Comment	Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

	Surname	Cleveland
	First Name(s)	Augustus
	Year of Birth	1755
	Year of Death	1784
	Entry	Of the Bengal Civil Service : said to have been a cousin of Lord Teignmouth (q.v.) : was Collector and Judge of the Diwani Adalat (Civil Court) of the districts of Bhagalpur, Monghyr and Rajmahal : proceeding in the Atlas Indiaman, to the Cape for his health, he died at sea, Jan. 12 or 13, 1784 : his remains were brought back to Calcutta, and interred in the South Park Street Cemetery. Warren Hastings had a monument erected to him with a lengthy inscription : another monument was put up by his native subordinates and others at Bhagalpur. The inscription on the latter runs : Who, without bloodshed or terrors of authority, employing only the means of conciliation, confidence and benevolence, attempted and accomplished the entire subjection of the lawless and savage inhabitants of the jungle-territory of Rajmahal, who had long infested the neighbouring lands by their predatory incursions, inspired them with a taste for the arts of civilized life, and attached them to the British Government by a conquest over their minds, the most permanent as the most rational mode of dominion. He has been called the dulce decus of the early Civil Service. This was the voyage of the Atlas in which Mrs. Warren Hastings returned to England.

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