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Ancient and Medival History Later Mughals and Advent of Europeans

The translation of ‘Gentoo Code’ was funded and encouraged by Warren Hastings as a method of increasing colonial hold over the Indies. Consider the statements regarding the Gentoo Code-

1. It is also known as Ordinations of the Pundits.

2. It was first translated from Persian to English and then from Persian to Sanskrit

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Explanation:

The Gentoo Code is a legal code translated from Sanskrit (in which it was known as vivadar?avasetu) into Persian by Brahmin scholars; and then from Persian into English by Nathaniel Brassey Halhed, a British grammarian working for the East India Company. The translation was funded and encouraged by Warren Hastings as a method of increasing colonial hold over the Indies. It was printed privately by the East India Company in London in 1776 under the title A Code of Gentoo Laws, or, Ordinations of the Pundits. Copies were not put on sale, but the Company did distribute them. In 1777 a pirate (and lessluxurious edition) was printed; and in 1781 a second edition appeared. Translations into French and German were published in 1778.