Consider the following statements about William Jones He had set up the Asiatic society of Bengal He...........

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Consider the following statements about William Jones

He had set up the Asiatic society of Bengal.
He had demeaned ancient Indian culture in most of his writing
He emphasized the need to teach the English language to the Native Indians.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

1 only

1 and 2 only

3 only

1,2 and 3

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Explanation:

Sir William Jones was an Anglo-Welsh philologist, a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indo-Aryan languages, which he coined as Indo-European. He established the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1784. He suggested that Sanskrit, Greek and Latin languages had a common root.

Lord Macauly suggested English to be taught to native Indians.