Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c27.1
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c27.1
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c27.1
BARKER, Sir Robert (d. 1789), for some time commander in chief in Bengal, author of Chapters I and X, probably first came to India about 1749. He was promoted brigadier-general in 1770 and commander in chief thereafter. After a lively quarrel with Warren Hastings he left India and on reaching England was elected member of parliament. He seems never to have spoken in parliament, but in March 1781, was rewarded with a baronetcy for his consistent vote with the government.