Who among the following set up the 39 lsquo Asiatic Society of Bengal 39 rsquo and started a journal...........

Indian Freedom Struggle (1857-1947)(RAS) Socio-religious reform Movements

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Who among the following set up the '‘Asiatic Society of Bengal'’ and started a journal called Asiatick Researches?

Thomas Daniel

William Jones

Warren Hastings

Alexander Cunningham

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Explanation:

Option B is correct: In 1783, William Jones arrived in Calcutta. He was appointed as a junior judge at the Supreme Court that the Company had set up. Together with Englishmen like Henry Thomas Colebrooke and Nathaniel Halhed , Jones set up the Asiatic Society of Bengal and started a journal called Asiatick Researches.