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English: "The Political Banditti assailing the Saviour of India" (1786) - political cartoon by James Gillray on the Hastings impeachment trial. Warren Hastings is depicted as a "saviour of India" under attack by "banditti" that look like Edmund Burke and Charles James Fox, his prosecutors in the trial.
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Source https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3959338
Author James Gillray (cartoonist 1756/7 - 1815)

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