HISTORY
SOCIETY
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Raja Ram Mohan Roy,
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Lord Macaulay
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Warren Hastings,
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Sir William Jones,
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Detailed explanation-1: -It was founded by the philologist William Jones on 15 January 1784 in a meeting presided over by Justice Robert Chambers in Calcutta, the then-capital of the Presidency of Fort William. At the time of its foundation, this Society was named as “Asiatick Society".
Detailed explanation-2: -Asiatic Society of Bengal, scholarly society founded on Jan. 15, 1784, by Sir William Jones, a British lawyer and Orientalist, to encourage Oriental studies.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sir William Jones, (born Sept. 28, 1746, London-died April 27, 1794, Calcutta), British Orientalist and jurist who did much to encourage interest in Oriental studies in the West. Of Welsh parentage, he studied at Harrow and University College, Oxford (1764–68), and learned Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian.
Detailed explanation-4: -Engraved portrait of Sir William Jones after a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds. ), India in the English language, Jones announced his discovery of the relationship between the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Gothic and Celtic languages, marking the foundation of comparative philology and historical linguistics.