Dictionary of Indian Biography/Browne, James
BROWNE, JAMES ( ? - ? )
Major: in the E. I. Co.'s service, temp. Warren Hastings: Collector of the Jungleterry districts, 1773: had difficult work in administering the country and settling disturbances: sent by the Council on an embassy to Shah Alamat Delhi to negotiate with him for assistance against the Sikhs: Resident at Delhi, 1782: recalled, when Warren Hastings left for England, 1785: published, in 1787, his Indian Tracts, which, he says, were written by order of Hastings, describing the Jungleterry districts, and giving an account of the Sikhs.