who are supposed to be these people ?

THE POLITICAL-BANDITTI ASSAILING THE SAVIOUR OF INDIA. Pubd May 11th 1786. by. Willm Holland No 66 Drury Lane. Hastings, in oriental dress, rides (r. to l.) a camel. He and the camel look down with dignified contempt at Burke (l.), who fires a blunderbuss pointblank at the Shield of Honour on Hastings's l. arm. On the shield is a crown. Behind Hastings are Fox and North (r.): Fox raises a dagger with burlesqued gestures and an expression of frenzied rage; North, very short and fat, clutches one of the bags behind Hastings inscribed Lacks Rupees added to the Revenue; this is tied to another inscribed Rupees Do. The three assailants are much caricatured and all wear armour; Burke, grotesquely, thin and like some malignant insect, wears a Jesuit's biretta (cf. No. 6oz6). He somewhat resembles the Don Quixote ... a wallet of Charges is slung across his shoulder, bare feet project from the greaves which cover his legs. North wears his Garter ribbon over his armour, with a feathered helmet and top-boots. The point of a large sabre with a damaged blade projects through the tattered scabbard which is inscribed American Subjugation. Fox wears the cloak of a conspirator over his armour (cf. No. 6389, &c.). Hastings (not caricatured) wears a jewelled turban, floating draperies, trousers, and slippers; his camel is heavily draped. On its back are bags, inscribed Saved to the Company and Eastern Gems for the British Crown, with a rolled map, Territories acquired by W. Hastings. The background is a mountainous landscape. One of many satires on the pending impeachment of Hastings ... http://bit.ly/1okrxWn

Hasting is the saviour of India. Wow

Interestingly, The founder of Tamkuhi raj Raja Fateh bahadur sahi's case (spelt Futty Saw in old documents) was referred to by Edmund Burke during Hastings impeachemnt in the British parliament. Fateh Sahi belonged to a line of semi independant chiefs who ruled Saran part of Bihar since times which predated the muslim rule of bihar. Fateh Sahi had refused to accept the suzeriniy of the East India Company, which lead to his battles with Hastings and his men, time and again. http://books.google.cz/books?id=yB09AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA606&lpg=PA606&dq=edmund++burke,++fateh++sahi&source=bl&ots=o_isY20SFm&sig=HYOVk0Y3-kZ_DJocxzHVIDJFz6A&hl=cs&sa=X&ei=Bc8YU_KILcKhtAb954CQCg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=edmund%20%20burke%2C%20%20fateh%20%20sahi&f=false http://www.hindu.com/mag/2011/05/22/stories/2011052250220500.htm