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Detailed explanation-1: -UPSC Mains Notes: In 1785, the Bhagavad Gita was first translated into English by Charles Wilkins and published as “Bhagvat-geeta or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon” by the British East India Company with an introduction by Lord Warren Hastings, the first British Governor-General of India.
Detailed explanation-2: -Sir Charles Wilkins KH FRS (1749 – 13 May 1836) was an English typographer and Orientalist, and founding member of The Asiatic Society. He is notable as the first translator of Bhagavad Gita into English, He supervised Panchanan Karmakar to create one of the first Bengali typeface.
Detailed explanation-3: -Published in 1830. Sir Charles Wilkins is notable as the first translator of Bhagavad Gita into English.