Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Френсіс Ровдон-Гастінґс, 1-й маркіз Гастінґс" in Ukrainian language version.
In order to inspect the British possessions in India and to meet Indian rulers and notables, and in his capacity as Commander-in-Chief to keep a closer eye on the current war with Nepal, Hastings made a journey upcountry from Calcutta to the Punjab and back. The party embarked on 28 June 1814 at Barrackpore in a flotilla of no less than 220 boats. Hastings was accompanied by his wife and small children, by his secretaries and A.D.C.s, and no doubt by their wives and children, by 150 sepoys of the Governor-General's Bodyguard, and by a battalion from the Bengal Army. The trip extended to October 1815. ... and Sita Ram (a Bengal draftsman) was employed as an artist to record the trip. Ram continued to work for Hastings. Another two albums of drawings also by Sita Ram contain views in Bengal taken on subsequent tours, one during a sporting expedition to northern Bengal in 1817, and the other during a convalescent tour in the Rajmahal Hills in 1820-21.
