In Indian phraseology, the company was diwan and the nawab was nazim.
Warren Hastings, a tried servant of the company, distinguished alike for intelligence, for probity and for knowledge of oriental manners, was nominated governor by the court of directors, with express instructions to carry out a predetermined series of reforms. In their own words, the court had resolved to " stand forth as diwan, and to take upon themselves, by the agency of their own servants, the entire care and administration of the revenues."
Madhava Rao, formerly diwan of Travancore, one of the ablest and most enlightened of Indian statesmen.
He is even better known as a poet, for his Diwan and the Anaq, and as a hymn-writer.
Yet he contrived to write his great commentary on the Pentateuch and other books of the Bible, treatises on philosophy (as the Yesodh mora), astronomy, mathematics, grammar (translation of Ilayyu j), besides a Diwan.